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Sticks and stones will break your bones and words will fucking kill you
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New hit: [Love Letter to a Dungeon Master.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7Tkba0aVYY)
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A cantrip that's as effective as "power word kill" on mundane folk? Use 55 times to kill a dragon? How did I miss this? As a DM, I'd have to implement a house rule that _every_ such insult must be unique, as it is magically bound to the target at that distinct moment in time. And that goes for failures as well as successes: each use burns that phrase forever. At the very least this goes if used repeatedly against the same target. Besides, a good bard should be able to cook up fresh material.
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Bards aren't just "a talented musician" they literally use magic. They're basically wizards that went the liberal arts path in college.
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It's odd saying it does decent damage. It's the least damaging cantrip. Not hating on it, but it's odd to say that lol.
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A cantrip that's as effective as "power word kill" on mundane folk? Use 55 times to kill a dragon? How did I miss this? As a DM, I'd have to implement a house rule that _every_ such insult must be unique, as it is magically bound to the target at that distinct moment in time. And that goes for failures as well as successes: each use burns that phrase forever. At the very least this goes if used repeatedly against the same target. Besides, a good bard should be able to cook up fresh material.This is an absolutely insane take. Vicious Mockery is the the least damaging cantrip (or like bottom three). Further, it's a cantrip, something players are supposed to be able to easily without resource consumption. Expecting a player to come up with unique insults every time they cast this is stupid and exhausting. Also, the reason it's "as effective as power word kill on common folk" is because *common folk are weak and meant to weak*. They're not heroes. Spell casters using cantrips is akin to fighters making normal attacks, swinging a sword.
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I mean if I was a dragon that failed to kill a bard for *11 minutes* I'd take care of it myself.I can't imagine surviving 55 rounds of combat against a dragon. Are people thinking this is a video game or something where you can just simply not take damage from a dragon if you're skilled enough or something?
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I can't imagine surviving 55 rounds of combat against a dragon. Are people thinking this is a video game or something where you can just simply not take damage from a dragon if you're skilled enough or something?
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Ermmm actually
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you don't roll when casting Vicious Mockery, the target does, so the best case scenario for the caster would be the target rolling a natural 1.
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A cantrip that's as effective as "power word kill" on mundane folk? Use 55 times to kill a dragon? How did I miss this? As a DM, I'd have to implement a house rule that _every_ such insult must be unique, as it is magically bound to the target at that distinct moment in time. And that goes for failures as well as successes: each use burns that phrase forever. At the very least this goes if used repeatedly against the same target. Besides, a good bard should be able to cook up fresh material.So are you going to nerf every class similarly? Bard Vicious Mockery: avg 10 / 55 casts Cleric Word of Radiance: avg 13.5 / 41 casts Sacred flame: avg 18 / 31 casts Druid Produce Flame: avg 11 / 50 casts Poison Spray: avg 22.5 / 25 casts Sorcerer Acid Splash: avg 10.5 / 52 casts Warlock Chill Touch: avg 11 / 50 casts Wizard Ray of Frost: avg 11 / 50 casts Artificer Thunderclap: avg 13.5 / 41 casts
