If I had a nickel for every time this spell saved me from raptors summoned by a Druid, I’d have 2 nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

can confirm, slithering tracker chased my ranger up the rope once.

"this is what happens when you don't listen to me, cya in hell!" truly a wizard we should all aspire to be

"Now's a good time to tell you you're a simulacrum" is one of the wildest sentences, because really, how on earth is it a *good* time?

I just noticed it took almost exactly 6 seconds for Skenk to cast rope trick and climb up inside. Nice attention to detail.

Most necromancer quote ever. "Where did I put the simulacrum?"

Funfact: If you lean out, any enemy worth their salt will just have their horde of minions (who were able to come because you fucked around took the time to heal for 10 minutes) fill you full of holes as reactions. Beasts will fuck off. Wizards will laugh as they cast dispel magic and you all fall 60ft out of the sanctuary. Enjoy that.

"This is what happens when you don't listen to me, see you in hell, boop!" I absolutely lost it. I come for the knowledge, stay for the humor.

"Where's my simulacrum?" Man do I know that issue all to well...

"See you in Hell" Probably not, pretty sure McGenk is going straight to the abyss.

"Oh... He WAS the original... WHERE is my simulacrum???" I fuckin lost it

The idea of the extradimensional space inside the rope trick being a cozy dinner with aesthetic snow falling out the window is perfect and I'm nabbing that

Be me, Alchemist Artificer -Cast Flaming Sphere (Concentration) -Climb into rope trick -Close entrance -Keep moving the sphere with my bonus action from inside, using my concealed Homonculus servant as a spotter -The Vanillla Ice Experience

Had an NPC Paladin of the hanged man (homebrew god/subclass) cast rope trick on a rope he was being hung with. Greatest use of the spell.

"DnD isn't broken" Whoa, whoa! Let's not get ahead of ourselves there.

“Skank no you were like a father to me” I spat out my soda at that part

“Last video was wrong” How many other lies have I been told to by the council?

“Where’s my simulacrum” is not a good question for an evil necromancer to be asking.

Pocket dimension tree house is one of my favourite spells.

Rope trick plus plane shift is just a better teleport, it's a great time...

My favorite part of rope trick is that you can cast it on up to 60ft of rope. Put that next to a building and you don't need to throw a grappling hook to the top, you can just grab the roof/window before you reach the space.

I was just binging old videos in this series lol

Seeing this reminded me why rope trick is one of my favorite spells in dnd. One game I was playing a gloomstalker ranger, who had the spell built into the kit. The barbarian and I got seperated from the rest of the group, and began fighting a mage lady that kept throwing out doubles of herself. I had cast rope trick earlier in the battle to see if we could possibly wait the battle out, but she pushed us back and was beginning to overwhelm the two of us. So, I hid and used disguise self to make myself look like her doubles and got close, by that point she had pushed up to where I had previously cast rope trick. With a lucky grapple check, I managed to coil the rope around her neck, and the next turn I asked if I could cast rope trick again on the same rope. My most generous and benevolent DM said sure, and I cast it on the other end of the rope, hoisting her 30 feet in the air in six seconds by the throat. It will forever remain my most memorable and sastifying victory.

"Where's my simulacrum?" No way that's not going to become a plot point later.

One of my favourite use still was getting out of a froghemoth’s belly by casting a short rope trick, climb in, and then just wait for the froghemoth to move out of the space to pop my head back out again! 10/10 would do again haha

"So, DnD isn't broken." No, no, no... DnD still is broken, just not in that way!

My Gloomstalker Scout uses her Rope Trick as a hiding spot to duck in and out in wide open areas, and on one occasion, use it to hide a macguffin that the enemies wanted. I purposely left the rope dangling outside to lure three drow assassins who were chasing me. Since it was my own extradimensional space I told the DM that it was dark in there which was normal for me because, Gloomstalker. And since I have Umbral Sight I was invisible to the drow inside, and we had a merry kerfuffle.

Now for the nuts and bolts: _Rope trick_ is a second-level spell, available to wizards and artificers of at least third level as of this writing. The material components are cheap -- cornstarch and a paper Möbius strip -- so you're good to go as long as you have this spell and a component pouch. _Rope trick_ is little changed from its debut in an earlier edition, so the exact nature of the "extradimensional space" is up to your DM. Most use the "featureless plain" you see Skank enter first, but other options are possible. Unlike more powerful spells, however, the interior does not supply you with any items, food or water, so be sure you bring supplies. Air is apparently covered, though, which lends itself to loads of theories on how this thing works. Note that _rope trick_ does not provide any assistance in climbing the rope, and the extradimensional space is not accessible until the _entire_ rope is vertical. Since climbing is at half speed unless you have a climb speed, it's recommended that you use a 15' rope for this spell, so that you can get up it with a single move action. Likewise, a knotted rope is recommended to avoid making a Strength (Athletics) check to climb the rope. As spells and attacks cannot pass through the "window" that allows you to see out, the spell is of limited use for, say, sniper nests. On the other hand, even if your foe can _see invisible_ , they can't shoot into the _rope trick_ , so this benefits you at least as much as them. You can still attack from the rope, as long as it hasn't been pulled in, assuming you can hang on. Sneaky stuff like boiling oil is subject to DM fiat, especially since you'll need to supply the oil and the heat yourself. Oh -- and yes, if your enemy can get up there and find the "window", they can indeed climb in after you.

The intro kills me, this fuckin' green guy trying to drama his heart out then just ZZAP dead. Why'd he do that, god damn stone-cold.

"Skenk no you were like a father to me" this gets me everytime

I live the concept that the extradimensional sanctuary is like a diner

Fun combo with this spell: 1. Cast Rope Trick 2. Cast Summon Lesser Demons close to the enemies 3. Enter the extradimensional space and pull the rope inside. 4. Take a little breather and wait around for 5 minutes 5. Drop concentration on Summon Lesser Demons 6. Collect the loot from all the now dead people.

D&D is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits

There was one time a giant monster was going to self-destruct to kill my party and we had one turn to get away. Most of the party just ran and got out of range but one of our members was unconscious near the blast zone so I ran up, cast rope trick, tied the rope to them, and climbed it. The DM let me roll for athletics to pull the rope up in time and just barely got away from it, saving the PC. I love rope trick.

Good way to balance this: The enemy also gets prep time. You come out of the rope trick to see ballistas set up and twice as many enemies as when you left.

*[Spellcaster looks around at Party]:* _Did anyone have a bag of holding on them, that they failed to mention?_ [Gestures at the Astral plane they're currently floating in…]

0:15 when the player roles high on charisma but you wanta do a fight anyway.

"I cast rope trick" Bad guys make a bonfire under where the spell was cast. Likewise, the spell doesn't specify if things like air or water pass through the portal. Only 'attacks' are explicitly blocked. So baddies could smoke out the portal if air can cross.

cool trick because the rope floats in the air, so if you dont have any other way to climb a surface rope trick can give you a 60ft boost you could also use it to just swing or hang on, do with this information as you will

Enemies can enter the extra dimensional space if the rope was not pulled up and space remains within the extra dimensional area. If the rope was pulled up, no one else can enter.

I used this spell to save a kid from a collapsed basement. I pushed the rope through a tiny hole and cast the spell to make the rope trick happen on the kids side. Then I made a "small" explosion to clear out the rouble

I'm so invested in Gorm's speech and I am WHEEZING at how it's cut short.

My first campaign in 5E, the DM specifically asked each player to come up with at least two family members for their characters. My character's family was killed by soldiers during session one. So my ranger went down a dark spiral and started taking warlock levels. Among the morally questionable things I did was tie a guards hands behind his back with a lead, so he could show us the safest path through the BBEGs tower, then, after he tried to lead us into a monster pen, I pulled his shoulder out of its socket and cast Rope Trick using the rope he was tied to and just, left him like that for the hour.

My favorite use is just for the free rope into the air, I cast it just to climb to a second story and forget about the extradimensional hole

A couple weeks ago I used rope trick for all of us to scale a wall. Took a rope, tied a knot every 2 ft, cut it so that it was the height of the wall, about 15 ft, stood next to the wall and let the rope rise. When we got to the top of the wall we just climbed into the hole then threw the rope over the other side and climbed down into the fortress.

I had an artificer friend that liked to set ambushes by making his tank-robot appear and fall from above

This reminds me of a battle we had in a "one-shot" (we got tpked in the third game), where i played a halfling mage with "useless spells". Thanks to the rope trick we survived (that fight), and one of our pcs was an elf that has an ability to jump into portals. So he was just popping in and out of the rope trick shooting arrows at the two ogre-like creatures. The only problem was i almost got killed when i climbed the rope, which counted as a movement, cause i was at melee of one of them, but being the sneaky divination mage i was like "Dont throw the dice, bro, your results is that 3 i got in the divination special power".

"Where is my simulacrum?" sounds like a great idea for a campaign

"This is probably a good time to tell you you're a simulacrum." BRUH WHY YOU GOTTA DO THAT TO THE POOR GUY ;-;

Ironically, most spellcasters don't have an athletics skill good enough to climb all the way to the top of a 60 foot rope unassisted. Multiply that by an entire party trying to climb a long vertical rope up to safety, and imagine the hilarity that ensues for the DM as half of them end up taking 10, 20, 30, 40, or 50 feet of falling damage trying and failing to get up the damn thing. This is why you carry a 3 foot length of rope. Because the description specifies a maximum rope length the spell works on, but not a minimum length.

Rope trick is one of my favorite spells. It isn't that useful in most cases, but it's a fun addition. So, um, rope trick can be used to ritual cast spells when surprised by enemies, hide from guards, climb walls, climb sheer cliffs, get out of pits, and escape one very fire filled trap room. I would be rather unhappy about an archer camping inside the room, but I wouldn't have a problem with one climbing 10+ft up and just using it like a magical ladder (you don't HAVE to enter the portal or climb the whole way up from below). I also like the idea of storing something in the room, and throwing the rope into the portal as you fall down. "Ah, yes. As you can Clearly see, there's no contraband in that room we just left." [1 hour later...] "Why, how did that get there? I'm sure glad we cleared our names already. So who else is in this strange mansion?" t's not a commonly used spell, but it's simplicity belies its functionality when it counts.

As the dm, had a fun time realizing that my player who never pulled the rope up was actually just letting me set up a close-quarters 1v1 with the angry monk they were fighting. He learned a valuable lesson that day.

Gorm’s incantation gives me shivers every time. Now THAT’S how to run a caster… even if they get obliterated.

Fun fact: "Up to 60 feet" can also mean 'significantly _less_ than 60 feet'. Including such lengths as 'like 6 inches, freakin' scrap of rope'. Combine this with a flying player (via any number of means, Broom of Flying is my personal favorite), 2+ levels in rogue, and the sharpshooter feat, and you've got the cheesiest possible sniper build. Fly up 30-50 feet, cast rope trick with short rope, bonus action hide in the extra-dimensional space. Next round, peek out, take shot at advantage with sneak attack with sharpshooter for +10 damage at -5 (counterbalanced by advantage), peek back in, bonus action hide. It's _stupid good_ . You waste a turn on setup, but it's counterbalanced by your later turns damage output (if you're not unlucky). And it's AL legal, if you care about that sort of thing. Also you can flat out _ignore_ most incoming damage.

I know Zee's Cinematic Universe enough at this point to expect that simulacrum to show up in a future video. Can't wait.

i like that Scank's pocket dimension is a snowy diner

The way I, a DM, might employ the Rope Trick spell is to have an elite strike force use it to stage an ambush. I have the mental image of stormtroopers rappelling down from the open air, like modern soldiers descending from helicopters or windows or skylights. Surprise, PCs, it was a trap the whole time! Now you'll have to fight dozens of dudes and the wizards who set up the rope tricks. Good luck!

The reason for the spacial gear rule is to prevent people from getting around their limitations but also give lower leveled parties access to planear travel. I'd say that if you're already in an extradimensional space, all spells that'd create an extradimensional space fail inside. Multiple reasons. First, to prevent stalling. Second, except *Demiplane*, those spells need an anchor point. If that anchor point were to cease to exist, the space would collapse, either shunting all occupants out, or the exit would disappear, stranding the occupants in a small plane.

Does your DM say you can’t short rest in dungeons? Do you want to be able to cast ritual spells in possibly dangerous places? Have you ever needed a quick escape from a fight? Well then Rope Trick is the spell for you! And if you act now, you can get it for only a second-level spell slot!

Oh as a dm i had a bad guy use this spell to great effect. So it was a bunch of kobolds, some buff guys engaged the party at the entrance to the throne room of the big boss. The boss threw a spell, and hid behind the throne. The party engaged the buff guys as the boss did a small rope trick with the entrance being right at the top of where the throne was. When they finished the buff guards they looked around and didn't find him. He took the time to write out a note "hahahahaha you adventurers will never catch me!" gather up a smoke bomb and dropped them out while the players were investigating the walls for hidden doors. Ticked them off 12 ways to sunday as they stomped out of the trap infested lair. They tracked him down a week later and things did not go well for the kobold after that... TLDR: tricky spells like this will get your players to HATE your BBG

I like that you admit to your mistakes.

This spell saved my party from an oncoming avalanche as we were climbing a mountain

So basically: Cast Rope Trick in the middle of combat and Summon Elementals without the fear of them going rogue

Skank McGenk has to be the more likeable character I ever hated, and I still love him for it xD

It's the funniest thing to see skank just doing the rope trick in the background at the beginning I don't know why

Hmm, I find it interesting that there is so much debate on what plane rope trick leads to. Why does everyone think it leads to a plane? The spell states that it leads to an extradimensional space, not an extraplanar space. As in, you are still on the same plane you cast the spell, but in an extradimensional pocket of space within that plane. This isn't semantics either, these two words have astronomical implications in their differences.

This spell is great! We used it when we wanted to infiltrate a place and were spotted by the guards as we made our approach. We quickly used Rope Trick to disappear before the guards made it out of the building to investigate the spot where they saw us, but when they couldn't find anything they eventually decided to spread the search to the nearby vicinity, leaving the central area where we'd been spotted virtually unguarded.

“Where’s my simulacrum?” Bad words you hear.

Rope trick was one of my Wizard / Thief's standby spells. Unclimable wall? Rope Trick next to it. Window is on the 5th floor and your ladder only reaches the second floor? Rope Trick. Need a quick escape and forgot to memorize dimension door? Rope Trick. Got inside and need to hide from the guards until the next guard shift? Rope Trick. It only takes "a few" levels in wizard (or sorcerer) to make your rogue into the ultimate breaking & entry / "2nd story man" - a LARGE number of utility spells that a thief would use are lvl 1 and lvl 2 spells.......

Awfully suspicious that he's the only member of team fun size left...

Rope trick is a high hide. Get it, you go up high... and you hide. It just puts you at a very convenient biting height.

"This is probably a good time to tell you you're a simulacrum" Top 10 anime plot twists

I hope we get the full Skenk McGenk lore someday

Considering the outcome of a Curse of Strand campaign I was in, 'You're a Simulacrum' brought up some traumatic flashbacks. Fun times!

Lesson: If you encounter Werner Herzog alone in the woods, flee immediately...

The nesting thing has my brain thinking about a group of casters on a rotating sleep schedule climbing a neverending ladder of rope tricks. Then things start getting weirder and weirder the further they go...

Rope trick is the only reason why we know skank is a wizard

I love all the episodes with the Mcgenks

Missed one of the cooler uses IMO. Anything in the portal gets dumped out after and hour. I filled one with rocks and used it to smash a guard patrol.

Enemies can definitely go inside - used this on a party that used to use that 'dance in and out firing arrows/spells' trick a lot in my CoS game. Had Strahd follow the wizard in straight after he'd cast it, now the party had to climb 30ft of rope in order to try to save him before he got ate, not an easy task in heavy armour

I have a fun story with my experience using Rope Trick. My DM let my fighter learn a couple magic spells from a foe turned friend. The friend didn't want me learning anything to dangerous and taught me Rope Trick, this was like around level 7ish. Now fast forward to level 20. I'm on a secret mission to spy on our enemy in the Undead Territory. I find an ally getting wrecked by The Legend 27 (just a funny name for a surprisingly tough undead who became a legend and got a character sheet and everything). I jumped in to help and through a close and tough fight we barely won. Buuuuut we are in undead territory which means soon he'll be up again (this land was cursed to raise any creature that dies there). So I had to think quick on how to save myself and my ally. Then it hit me, if I used Rope Trick I could buy a lot of time by throwing the remains of The Legend 27 in the dimension. The DM was surprised that I found a unique way to use that spell after all this time and ever since then it has been my favorite spell in the game. My character thought learning that spell was a waste but who knew that it would end up saving his life?

I unironically love your consistent decision to animate the gaffes.

An ancient red dragon once tried to trap the party by shoving a wyvern corpse around the rope-trick entrance.

two in a WEEK!?! A BLESSING FROM THE LORD!!

Ahh Rope trick or as my players call it "The nope rope"

If you nest rope trick, the first one wears off while still inside it, and you get stuck in the void forever.

I like the concept of Rope Trick alongside Demi Plane, since you can use the one to reach the other, and since Demi Planes remain active, you can even connect the dimensions and portal (and rope) wise... Great way to escape anything thrown at you at higher levels XD...

"Alright, Imma head out"

One of my players just pulled this: 1 feet high sideway window to the pocket space to block a doorway. Google says the rope can hit a ceiling without failing the spell Zee shows us both ceiling and sideway portals go

So there is nothing stopping things from going into your pocket dimension if they can reach it. I learned this when I rope tricked to get away from the King of Feathers in Tomb of Annihilation. Who proceeded to vomit bees into it.

I like the idea of the sanctuary being a diner with light snow outside.

my favorite trick is to have a 1 foot of rope to cast the spell.... so it is an instant climb.... the rope required has no min length so instantly in the rope trick

It's literally the most broken spell in dnd. It's a second level spell, that if played correctly, the only way you can be damaged is through held actions, which really fucks with the opposing teams action economy.

Splitting your move to pop out and in for a cheeky attack is fair game. The enemies should ready attacks for when you come out so it's not 100% safe.

I'll be honest. At this point, I'm worried about what I'm about to watch whenever I see Skank in the video thumbnail.

I've used Rope Trick to scale a tall wall without needing pitons for the rope... just stand next the wall and cast it. The rope goes up and you can climb the rope to get over the wall. My wizard carries several cuts of rope of various lengths for this

I love the little creature interrupting the plea XD

Love how it says the rope has to be _up to_ 60 feet long, meaning you can arguably use a foot long rope to create a knee-length opening to an invisible extra dimensional space just for you and your allies. If the rope is short enough there’s no need to climb it, so you’ve got a 1-hour hidey hole to use in a pinch. The only downside to this is the _window_ , which is centered on the rope. Assuming it’s just 1-foot wide, the only thing you’ll see is the ground.

Best use of rope trick if your party gets split up (a gate comes down splitting the party, you into a pit, ect) , it buys time for your teammates to figure out how to regroup on your position, without having to directly survive rounds of combat outnumbered.

Also, this makes a rope up to 60 feet long go straight up. Good for climbing stuff.