That was even better when you realize not only did they have to have burned through its legendary resistances, but the dragon had to fail a +7 Wisdom save. THAT is the definition of a Hail Mary play.

That's so clever. And bold. Relying on a dragon to fail its wisdom save.

That DM was 100% ready to TPK, probably put away the new character sheets in disappointment, but respect

Just goes to show, even the most intricate and well-layed DM plans can be yeeted in any and every direction at once by a player with a crazy idea and some dumb luck. It's the main reason I love the game.

Adding "getting our ass beat inside out" to my lexicon

Command is one of those spells that can be utterly EPIC by choosing the right word. I had an enemy NPC use the word "Repent" on a player to force her to grovel for one round. It had exactly the intended effect, cementing that NPC as a hated enemy who they were willing to go any lengths to ruin.

I gave a character a Cloak of Artillery, pretty much Cloak of Many Things but instead of things, it's weapons. Anything you can think of (within a medieval setting and reason, i trust my players), and you can spend a free object interaction to summon it either into your hand or, if it's a ballista or somrthing large like that, a space within 5 feet of you. Now, this was a party of characters and players that I'd been with for almost 2 years, so I trust them not to abuse it. However, the guy who got the cloak, a bugbear paladin/fighter, he's smarter than the average bear. They're riding on top of a mountain sized undead dragon (Ancalagon, but re-animated, in Middle Earth. Don't ask how a bugbear got there). They're freaking out. They were just walking along a hill WHEN THE HILL SUDDENLY STARTS MOVING AND THE HORIZON DISSAPEARS. So naturally, they try to fight the thing. On its back. It does not like the tickling, so it tries to shake them off. Most of the party actually makes their saves, but the Bugbear doesn't. So as he's about to fall 300+ feet, he looks at me dead in the eyes, and says the following: "I summon a catapult five feet below me. I would like to make a dexterity save to get in the spoon." Me, not entirely processing what he's doing: "Okay, cushioning the fall, i like the thought process. Let's give it a DC 15, but with disadvantage because this thing is probably falling a lot faster than you are." Him: "That'll be a 22. Now can I action surge, and make an attack action to cut the rope?" Me, visibly shocked at his ingenuity: "Dude, I'm not even going to make you roll. You are more or less stationary. BUT, roll me percentile to see how accurate you are. Let's say, 75 or above, your mid-air aim is true, and you launch yourself back up onto the back. 51 to 74, you launch up, but you're going to need to roll me an acrobatics or athletics check to land safely. Anything below a 50, and you're plummeting." Him: * rolls percentile, reads the results, then sits back with a shit eating grin * I look over, and sitting on the table, for everyone to see, is a fucking 100. He pirouetted onto the back of Ancalagon out of a catapult midair. I love my party. Sorry for the long story.

Dragon: YEET! Sorcerer: Catch! Dragon: *wags tail* WOOF! Also dragon, *staring at the sorcerer clutched in his claws.* Da fuq?

I was playing in a campaign where two of the PCs had their souls linked because backstory reasons. These PCs *hate* each other. They were arguing and my cleric had had enough of it, so he cast Command "apologize." Because of the soul link it affected both of them. They both failed the save. They proceeded to hug each other, sobbing and making up. We were talking about that moment for at least a month after.

That is by far the best play I've ever heard of besides body slamming the actual dragon by Los Tiburon Edit: fixed the name of the PC

In a 3.5 E game that I ran many years ago, I had a juvenile black dragon (with 3 assassin class levels) who managed to separate the gnome wizard from the party with a wand of stoneshape near a cliff. The wizard's reaction? Taunt the dragon and jump off the cliff after him. As the dragon was diving down to catch him in mid air, the wizard cast rope trick and catches the dragon mid air in a noose, then feather falls to the ground. Successfully hung a dragon mid dive.

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: Catch! (Edit: I have never gotten this many likes before thanks guys, if only I could get this many likes on my channel)

One rare occasion where the cleric actually heals the party.

Command and suggestion can be hilarious. My party had a flying tavern, and a bad guy snuck on board while we were grounded. They were a werewolf, and my character was an edgy wizard who really liked to intimidate foes by humiliating them. The werewolf was on the edge of the entryway and my character cast command... to have the werewolf "Flip". The werewolf rolled a nat 1 on the Acrobatics check and plummeted 300 feet.

Not his face on the statue 😂

Who's the Bestest Dragon?! YOU ARE!!...Now let go of the Wizard...

I can only imagine the sheer excitement from the dm and the party screaming

Most epic save ever!

Every time I think I’ve come up with the best Command shenanigan, I see a story like this and I’m reminded that creativity is infinite

Honestly I've had so many scenes as a player and dm that I was waiting on the tpk and just so happen to roll with the luck of a god to get ourselves out of it... Including the good ol talk no jutsu... which had our dm falling to the floor with the absurdity

love this story. Keep up the good work

Dude now I wanna see this in a movie. I'm just visualizing a sorcerer falling to his death, everyone left barely clinging to life, then just a close up shot of the falling sorcerer uttering the word "catch", and the dragon swoops towards him, scoops him up, and flies back to the edge of the cliff where the party, now healed enough to fight, stand glaring at it

Alright we need more epic stories like this.

The embodiment of the "If they came to hear me beg" achievement from Halo Reach. Last minute save from a most certain death.

I need this animated - imagine how badass it would look

"Party is fighting an adult red dragon-" Understandable have a nice day

Honestly, the dragonflight trailer clips fit this scene way too well, lol.

"Fetch"

“Catch”….badass 👍🏾🤣

IT'S NOT WHAT YOU HEARD IT'S WHAT YOU HEARIN!

Oof the use of music on this one, nicely done

Catch. That has got to be one of the coldest plays I've ever heard. That's some Litch king levels of command skill. This story is too cool!

CLUTCHED

That music goes so hard with that tale

That’s an incredible use of Command, resourceful player

So my brother had got knocked prone and he was rolling his death saves as we were fighting a giant snake lady and her giant pet eel and it was not looking good. I only had 15 hit points it or 75 and my bro could.not help since he was down. So my dumb barbarien fighter had grabbed a anchor that I found that weighed only 2 pounds to the person holding it and rolled a nat 20. I lived by dealing 198 damage in one blow to both of them and I was on 3 hit points.

Love a DM that's not afraid to kill their players. Thats the type of DMing that allows for epic moments like this

I mean that’s a hell of a way to do it but a sorcerer should always have an escape for this situation, even in the second level spells you have Levitate, Vortex Warp, depending on your DM warding wind and web At third level you have fly, gaseous form, thunder step, again dependent on your dm you could argue for slow, and by all technicality blinking into the ethereal plane would protect you from Fall damage as it specifies that only creatures in the etherial plane can hurt you, although I’d imagine most DMs are going to turn that down even rule heavy ones For fourth level spells which is the highest I’m going for this theoretical you have banishment which as long as you’re not from any other plane would pause your momentum and reduce your fall damage, dimension door, polymorph, stoneskin, and again depending on your DM watery sphere as it restrains you in place. I will preemptively explain why stoneskin is a great option, seeing as fall damage in 5e is calculated at 1d6 per 10 feet and you hit terminal velocity at 200, the maximum fall damage you can take is 120 and that is with all 20 d6s rolling max, in reality you’ll likely take closer to 40-80, stoneskin resistance to bludgeoning halves that damage sorcerer survives a 200 foot fall no problem

Love when what the DM thinks is a surefire TPK is not

Achievement unlocked: fun times with dad

feather fall is like insurance, completely useless until you need it......or you can just be replaced it with command i guess.

You know... if the DM was even more wicked, he'd have the dragon swoop down to catch the sorcerer... in its mouth. DM: "What? you just said catch... you didn't say how. Now my dragon gets a nice little snack."

Song is X gon’ give it to ya by DMX if anyone curious

A good example of the DM going “well played” instead of getting angry

A glove? Nice

These kinds of battles are my favourite! They make the best memories

Thought it was bout to go “But our Bard saved the day by, you guessed it, seducing the dragon”😂😂😂

I heard a similar one where one of the characters had a single use magic item that could swap places with their target (momentum and all), the DM forgot about the item... the players didnt. And in one of their fights the monster they were up against was almost invincible to malicious spells (effectively damaging spells), with the intent it would force them to fight it physically. Instead after a similar thing to what happened in this video, they were plummeting to their deaths when they swapped places and the monster went splat. Their DM was very careful about the items they gave out on a whim after that.

I’d have said “fetch”

Where is the dragon video from?

This should be in the next DnD movie, honesty.

That sounds like it'd be in a movie.

“We’re getting our ass beat inside out” Oh you guys let the bard handle this one?

Love the story. But what does the magic baseball glove do?

BROOOOO! That is EPIC!!!!

I love DMX plays throughout this.

I had a dm who wanted so badly to start everyone over because all we did was goof off during the campaign so she would try her damnedest to get us killed she could've just forced us to restart but she wanted a proper death to all of us it was hilarious the solutions we thought of to escape our fates one time she was so sure we were dead she started handing out sheets for us to remake our characters but i said wait a moment my pet demon and I are from hell and when i die my soul is sent back to hell and my demon cannot die and he and I are bonded so we can communicate with each other so I can tell my demon to summon me from the depths of hell and i can use a true resurrection spell to bring back the rest of the party some rest and alot of dice rolling later I've brought back everyone sure some of them were brought back as zombies who could only do what i tell them to but everyone was back in one way or another and she just said fuck it and we continued that campaign and it was like i was a new mini-dm for the party because I was in control like I said I was a succubus necromancer for anyone wondering and yes it was hombrew

Heh, I gave my player a magic baseball glove too! It's an object enchanted to summon a mage hand, and because their whole character schtick is 'vaguely baseball themed', it transformed into a ghostly mitt when they attuned to it.

I literally went "DAAAAAMN!!!" when he said the word "catch." Damn damn damn may all of us have at least one fight as badass as that.

My always cursing ass after telepethically talking with the dragon: Fuck! ... Oh shit.

I had a moment kind of like this in my last session where a utility spell was used for something unexpected. I'm playing a Divine Soul Sorcerer, and pretty much gave myself mostly utility spells with a few damage options. Obligatory haste, misty step, vortex warp, various healing spells, etc. Roll up on a boss in a train destroying a town with intent to steal the train. Other sorcerer disables the train, boss ejects all of us from the train and makes it grow giant pink light legs (queue the Mettaton song). First turn my sorcerer gets, I vortex warp the boss, legs disappear, and the train that's a good 70 feet in the air is now coming down right in front of us. I put the boss directly underneath the falling train and he gets crushed to death by his own train.

DMX and DnD goes so hard together

Winning on hair's breath is this the best!

Nice touch using the Dragonflight cinematic.

My friends and I played a oneshot recently with the final battle happening on top of a moving train. The bbeg swallowed a potent magical item and we were on a countdown until the whole thing exploded. One round left, nothing but failure to stop them until this point. I'd used command unsuccessfully twice in different fights before this point, but I figured this was as good a time to try again as any. "Vomit". The bbeg threw back up the magic item with moments to spare

That has to look awesome if you picture it Like you get thrown off and just say "catch" and your enemy saves you

Genuinely your daggerfall series is one of my favorites of yours. Even just you trying not to lose your mind and chatting with, well, chat makes it all the better. Though I'd never say no to a revisit...

Wow sorcerer came in clutch there 😂

Dragonflight trailer fits so perfectly here

The thing is, there's a few ways you COULD interpret the command. But the more obvious interpretation was to catch the Sorcerer before they hit the ground. The DM chose to save the player instead of going for a different "catch."

You that hail Mary under presser be the life!!!

That has to be the most satisfying narrative-by-play ever, of all time.

That actually goes really fucking hard

I'm kinda interested in that magical baseball glove

Big brain play. That felt like something straight out of a movie.

We just did an Adult Red Dragon fight! Our level 10 butts were getting whooped and the dragon was barely under half. So our Artificer decided to kamikaze into the Astral Plane with Bags of Holding.

My chihuahua of a drow was the only character who saved against paralysis in the face of the 1/100 dragon encounter's fear aura and long story short they are now engaged.

*Falling* "Hey dragon!" *flips the dragon a middle finger* "Catch."

That IS perfect use of Command!

Epic death scene turns into epic save and I love it

I love that through my knowledge of dnd, this sorcerer was likely divine soul

I love command. Such a fantastic spell in the right circumstances.

DM wasn’t giving em a dramatic death. Dude gave him some extra motivation to think outside the box. Well done on both parts.

That sounds like something you’d see in an epic fantasy movie or anime or something- I need to see this animated in a dramatic way and a story I’m invested in.

The sorcerer cast his command to the dragon! In an instant he saw this age old beast of fire and death’s eyes widen, it’s tail wag, and it’s stance lower as it bound after him like Clifford the big red fucking dragon. Spectacular.

Dm: "fetch would also have been acceptable"

"Catch" Ok bet, the dragon chomps down on you.

The dragon got to be a pitcher AND a catcher, what a show of true skill...

This is the *OH FUCK YEAH!* moment that I live for.

Catch is one of the best power words for a dragon until you realize you’re in its hand

Catch, what a good ball save.

I knew what was coming when he said "Command", but it was still a great twist.

When death seems so imminent, but you got a puppy right there to save the day.

When you bamboozle the dragon into throwing an alley-oop 😂😂

I just imagine if this was movie the sorcerer casted control beast and as the dragon gets hypnotized he yell catch and the dragon just dives off very dramatically to catch him like something out a hole of movie

I am dead serious when I say, I have no patience to play dungeons and dragons, nor to learn But I watch every video you put out or it’s a skit like this just reading some comments put your own pizzazz on it makes me more obsessed with the game every day😂❤

I didn’t think it would be “catch” I thought it was gonna be “fetch” because then logically the dragon has to put you back. 😂

Getting an item related to the way you defeated the enemy is 100% the DM showing begrudging respect.

From yelling catch at a dragon turns into the ultimate dad

I can physically hear the table cheering and shouting over this.