Using Spells Wrong in D&D

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[SlayednFlayed]

If you target a crate with Sacred Flame, and it works, you’re in more trouble than you think

[ragemachine]

Dm :You can't hit boxes with Scared flame, don't be daff!
* Throws Flame at box. It hits. *
The party : ...?
The Mimic: !

[timmothyrotenberry]

Me: *Casts charm person on door*
Player: "what are you stupid"
DM: "you discover it is not a door but infact that spanish inquisition"

[ChefOliveDevon]

"I cast sacred flame on the chest."
"You can't do that it's not a creature"
"Okay, this one isn't a mimic either"

[pikagamergirl]

Imagining a drunk cleric attempting to cast sacred flame on a crate over and over and over again and getting increasingly frustrated that it isn't working is hilarious to me.😂😂😂

[wednesdayapril]

"That rock looks suspicious"
Cast charm person
"Well now i know its not a person"

[Xazyv]

I'm glad you included that last bit cuz I was absolutely thinking "this would be a great way to reveal the character you thought was a humanoid is actually something different"

[jedediahcoulbourne]

Reminds me of a DM that had a spell for his one shot work perfectly but not as intended. He cast Banish Evil at a very high level and then poof my sorcerer was displaced because while I wasn't an antagonist, I was an evil guy

[AvaniDK]

Reminds me of a game I was in back in 3rd ed.
It was a high level campaign (we were level 18 at the time) and a Demon cast Charm Person on me. I could then inform the DM that the spell failed in three different ways.
1. I had made my Will save
2. I had too many Hit Dice.
3. I was a Tiefling, and thus not a Humanoid (Tieflings were Outsiders in 3rd. ed.)

[othername]

"Froggit didn't understand what you said, but was flattered anyway."

[Dessarius]

I mean, if you can't legally cast a spell, the spell fizzles. Makes sense to me.

[Salt_discriminater]

I can just imagine a wizard saying "I'll cast charm person on him, that way we know if he's really Bob or some monster pretending to be him. If he dosen't get charmed, we kill it."
Then the wizard rolls a nat 1, and commands bob to raise his right arm.
Bob now has to pretend to be charmed or get ganked. I think that'd be a funny roleplay moment

[elafimilo]

My DM did that. I'm playing a sorcerer who doesn't really know how her magic works, so I had her cast Crown of Thorns on a vampire spawn, and the DM said, "You can feel your magic trying to grasp something, but it's unable to." Tasty fun.

[Beilmanimal]

Savage ruling. Rewards wrote memorization of creature types by the player and encourages metagaming. It also doesn’t help that many dnd monsters are the actual definition of humanoid but not the dnd definition.

[nekoali]

There are multiple ways to look at and go about this, each with it's own end results. So DMs should decided how it works in their world. But most importantly, be consistent about it.

Say the player wants to Charm Person someone they see at a noble's house. Unknown to them, said person is a Vampire, and therefore Undead, not Humanoid by type, so unaffected by Charm Person.

If the DM keeps a secret to why the spell fails by rolling the save in private and then just announcing ti fails regardless of the role, the players are still in the dark about the vampire's nature.

If you announce the spell outright fails, then they know this person can't be effected by Charm Person, but not necessarily why. If you say they can't even be targeted by the spell, then they can guess they don't count as Humanoid, so they aren't what they seem to be.

[benmwalls]

My favorite instance of status effects happened when our party's undying warlock (I know, but the better version didn't exist yet) failed his casting of contact other planes. The result: a PC that went insane and did not need to sleep. He also kept resisting "sleep" until we found diamond dust for "greater restoration" 3 sessions later.

[RealityRogue]

The disguised non-humanoid sweating every day that nobody casts charm person on them

[rust]

My table was fighting an undead due that passed as a regular human so the cleric tried to use command on him and instead of telling them it doesn't work I had some fun and rolled anyway but then said it didn't work. They had there suspicions though since I did have to double check the spell and see that it doesn't work on undead.

[axelnext]

For me depends on the spell, Sacred Flame(and other damaging spells) should work on objects as well and in fact if it’s an AOE is something you need to worry about. Hint: watch out if you drop a Fireball in a run down house.

[danielcruz]

Best way to detect mimics, just sacred flame every chest