How to Flavor your D&D Spells
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Published 2021-03-10
▼ INDEX ▼
0:00 - Intro
0:31 - What is flavor?
2:04 - Look at the components
3:26 - Look at the damage type
4:53 - Sponsored by 1985 Games
6:16 - Look at your class
7:21 - Look at your personality
8:18 - Look at your backstory
9:27 - Outro
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All Comments (21)
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my swarmkeeper ranger, Bees, is literally just a colony of bees in a humanoid shaped suit. all of the "spells" they cast are just the bees doing bee things
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I have a wizard who is covered with animal tattoos and every time she casts Find Familiar one of her tattoos literally jumps off her skin.
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"I'm gonna cast Tasha's Hideous Laughter on the goblin chief" "What do you say?" "Goblin deez nuts"
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Granny Crackletooth, my Eladrin Storm Sorcerer has a mortar and pestle that she calls her "teacup" for casting spells. She literally brews a storm in a teacup. She also has a components pouch. So when she uses spells with random effects, she just shoves her hand into her pouch, grabs whatever her hand touches, shoves it into the teacup and grinds it up for the spell. Granny's a lot of fun.
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My girlfriend is running a game that skews to the comical side, and my character is a warforged artificer named F.A.T.H.E.R., and all his spells are dad-related. My favorite is Tasha's caustic brew, AKA "crackin' a cold one with the boys" where he pulls a miller light out of his fanny-pack of holding and shakes it up before spraying it everywhere. (also his construct companion is a roomba with googly-eyes named Boomba, and he's the party's mascot)
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My character is a really shitty wizard so his spells sputter and go flying in random directions before hitting the target. Its a great time every time.
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I’m currently playing an archfey warlock, my patron is the “Mistress of Roses” who is a fey princess cursed to never be able to feel love by herself, so she approached my character to experience as many romantic situations as possible in order to experience them herself, so for example he blows glowing kisses at people as Eldritch Blasts and blows a pink mist as Charm Person.
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My cleric is a follower of a hearth and community goddess, similar to Hestia, who carries a lantern with a white flame that burns on his faith. So, usually his spells are fire based.... until he had to cast create water. So I said that a cloud of steam burst from his lantern with the sound of whistling like a tea kettle, then condensed into an orb of water in the air. It can be a lot of fun to think about how some spells would work when you’re dedicated to a certain flavor
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The farmer wizard, with a chicken familiar
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One of my characters was very annoyed by how idiotic the rest of the party was. Her lay on hands was essentially a slap with her muttering about how she wonders why she’s still helping them.
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I love how Mark Hulmes adds flavor for his players. He'll almost always ask like, "Okay, so you start casting this spell.. What does it look like?" or "how is your character doing this thing?" etc. Prompts the players to make their characters even more unique
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One of my players reads the spell in a deeper, more ethereal voice, and he says the name of the spell backwards. Magic Missile therefore becomes "ELLISIM CIGAM!" Another of my players has recently started playing a caster. He's remembered a few of the key words but he's never actually spotted the pattern. So he reads Ray of Frost as Sor Fire, and there are spells he's never heard my other player say which he's totally lost on.
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I once played with a guy who flavored his warlock and, with DM permission, would dab to cast eldritch blast. Not only was it one of the more odd things I've seen at a table, at one point my spirit got put into his body so I had to try and imitate it. Easily one of the funniest moments of my D&D career so far!
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I’m playing a wizard for the first time, and they’re a tabaxi and their focus is a ball of yarn 🧶 that has colored yarn to represent each school of magic
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My character, Sadie Mae, is a Hexblade Warlock. She has a sweet Southern demeaner and accent. When she starts casting with verbal components, her voice is her usual sweet accent but as she continues, it gets deeper and darker as her patron asserts itself.
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I've been having a ton of fun playing a catfolk bard where the whole concept is that instead of using her charisma for seduction it means she is just the most goddamn adorable thing anyone has ever seen. She has a lot of glitter based spells and things like Terrible Remorse where enemies become so overwhelmed with shame that they threatened such a cute little kitty that they attack themselves. Also her dirge of doom is a distressed cat yowl.
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Oh wow, wasn't expecting to actually see oil black eyes.
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My newest character is the sweetest necromancer you'll ever meet! She's pretty shy, and her magic ability is kind of a place of shame for her. So she keeps her arcane focus, which is a little wand with a small amethyst at the tip, in her hair--as if it's there to only keep her bun in place like a piece of jewelry. She even wears pastel colors like lavender to offset how morbid her spells tend to be. She tends to mumble a lot, and tries not to be too obvious about casting.
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Cheerful Song: "You sing a happy little tune, bolstering the spirits of up to 3 friendly creatures within range. Affected creatures gain 1 temporary hit point, and can add a +1 bonus to their first attack roll, saving throw, or ability check made before the start of your next turn" My firbolg cowgirl bardbarian: ...IF IT HADN'T BEEN FOR COTTON-EYED JOE-
