D&D - Honesty is the best policy

I love your work man! You're one of the reasons I started playing DND! Thank you so much!

Yeaaah now disguise yourself as someone else, cast friends on a different person, walk away before the friends spell wears off, hilarity ensues after the different person goes off in that someone else

World of Darkness has a couple skills that do exactly this. A ragabash (trickster moon) werewolf can take "liars face" which means they can make themselves magically unbelievable when speaking to... I think it only works on non-supernaturals, but cool regardless

Wait... Were they telling the truth or were they using reverse psychology?

Brilliant idea!
I will so steal it! (Ba-dum-ching! 😉)
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How did the thieves get the title Duke? Good for them.

Seamless interaction between the cunning players and the reactive and creative DM. Genious. Its almost as if they were the same person!

ah, the Feynman gambit, good times 😂

The "friends" spell has many applications. But most of the time you also need a good running skill and high stamina (not a problem for a centaur, just sayin').

"You lied to me by telling me the truth?"

This is definitely another nugget I qm adding to my bag of tricks

My table, enchantment / charm magic doesn't cause any hostile reaction from its targets if they were treated well during the duration, especially if the intent was understood to be defusing anger.

Otherwise, enchantment / charm magic is often seen as more despicable than necromancy, as you're basically brainwashing people or worse.

I guess "hostile" doesn't necessarily mean attack immediately. That's actually pretty creative

while holding documents "yes, i stole the documents, and i cannot tell a lie"

Hey i have that same dice tray i made my own recently though

I want a low level wizard npc to get caught casting friends on the party. They get very suspicious after it wears off, but the wizard is just incredibly awkward and learned the cantrip to bypass small talk

Alternatively you tell them that you did steal it, this is how, and this is where their security needs to be beefed up

Huh, I never thought of it that way…
Definitely will pick this one up

Lol

Genius.

The reverse psychology here is it great hilarious we effective choice😂😂😂

That's BRILLIANT!
Well played sir. Well played.

Huh, magic reverse psychology.

Ingenious

I absolutely love it

It's really brilliant

That’s the smartest play I’ve ever seen

You see. With enough smarts, a fair amount of reverse psychology, and some good rolls. You can Weasel out of any problem.

This is a perfect exemple of reverse psicology....

I love how nobody noted that they rolled for persuasion, not deception, meaning they did actually steal the documents

The only time I've ever seen the spell used successfully.

plot twist: they did steal the documents and it was all an ruse

Guys, is it normal to cast True Strike on a bridge?

Peanut butter

That was brilliant.

GG bitch you got played LMFAO

This has the same energy as Captain Jack Sparrow telling the two redcoats he's there to steal the ship

My Goliath genie warlock, with beguiling influence, and still cant role good on deception in a nutshell.

uno reverse

That was stupidly clever, I never would’ve thought of that

That was a smart move, I'm impressed.

I got implicated in an attempted murder and just started laughing. "Listen. If I wanted to kill this one, we would not be having this conversation. Everyone would know."

This is the perfect example of experience .

Using 'Friends' for reverse-psychology is twisted and the DM should either brutally consequence you for intentionally failing a check...or give it to you to see where it goes.

🤣 that was good 👍

Im willing to forgive the roll instead of actually trying to convince the DM, but only for new players and quick content like this

"Friends" is by far the best cantrip spell in D&D5e.

All you need to do is combine it with a convincing disguise, and it no longer matters that your mark is sore later about being charmed. In fact, you can disguise yourself as someone you want them to be angry with - now you are getting way more mileage out of your cantrip than you ever could from an actual spell like Charm Person.

But let's say you suck at disguises. How often do you have repeat encounters with shopkeepers as you travel through a city? Use Friends to get better deals as you shop. You'll have multiple shopkeepers that now dislike you and will never sell to you again - but if you ever come this way again and do need anything from them, it's a simple matter to send another party member to buy from them. These scammed shopkeepers aren't going to form a secret society bent on bringing you to justice, when magics like Friends and Charm Person are so common in the world - the list of people scamming shopkeepers that way is too long to bother singling you out. They'll just be sore about it, and do their best to recall what you even look like so they can refuse to sell to you next time you come around.

The downside of Friends is mostly an illusion. It only matters when you have repeat encounters with an NPC. And typically you can just save your use of Friends for when you really need that NPC's cooperation, then apologize later and try to earn their forgiveness for it. It might take you a few honest persuasion rolls and some in character dialogue, but no real harm done.

That is the dumbest strat that actually works. Fabricate a lie using the truth. Its only fabricated in their mind.

The only time anyone would ever A) take the friends spell, and B) have it actually be useful.

holy cow, i'm gonna steal that later