I think an awesome way to use them would be to have the BBEG be a planeswalker. When the fight starts, the DM pulls out a Magic deck and starts playing Magic against D&D.

I’m imagining someone switching to Pathfinder 2e, not telling anyone, and whenever it comes up they say it’s house rules.

How much trouble is it to keep learning different systems?

But you only gave them your name. You never submitted to control.

There’s often stuff in fantasy about knowing a being’s true name giving you power over them, so you wouldn’t want to tell it to a fey. But if they literally took your name, then that would make it theirs, and now you know their true name. Also, according to the forgotten realms wiki, most people don’t know their own true name. It’s not the same as the name you go by.

Isn’t that good? Now people can’t use Gate to summon you into a trap.

I’m terrible at coming up with backstories. I guess that means I don’t have any insecurities.

Barely. You can throw a potato to get rid of an orc. But this is only occasionally useful and only in the early game. Once it starts costing two or more potatoes to get rid of one orc, it’s a bad idea.

I’m assuming that even though the DM pretends to be annoyed, he actually thinks all these shenanigans are awesome and is bending the rules to let them work.

That’s true of anything without a fly speed,

And without a burrow speed, and without a ranged attack, and without an ability that lets it ground all flying enemies. Maybe a skilled DM could make it work, but in other editions it wouldn’t have been an issue.

Though the other problem is that you can deal limitless damage just by dropping sufficiently many 100 pound boulders. In 5e, they got rid of damage from falling objects, but you just need to drop enough creatures. Or ignite enough horns of gunpowder with a single Bonfire.

Does anyone actually run an unmodified 5e tarrasque? Outside of a joke campaign?

Paladin: Slays the dragon

Bard: Lays the dragon

Minecraft Speedrunner: Yes

I had a fixed schedule. Then found out that not every country starts and ends daylight savings time on the same day.

“…and then at the end of the session I found a magic item that lets me cast Wish three times per short rest. Oh, was that a goof? Oh well.”

That sounds neat. Can I hire a Herald to do that when I die?

A commoner has 1d8 hitpoints. In 3.5 their hit die was d4, but it wasn’t clear how many levels the average commoner had.

Fun fact: a level 14 Creation Bard can create a loaded antimatter rifle. Arguably, they could do it at level 3. Since it doesn’t have a value, it certainly doesn’t have a value of more than 20 times the bard level in gp. The problem is that it’s not clear if you can count that as one object.

Also, Creative Crescendo mentions channeling power from the Song of Creation, but nothing about actually singing it. And it’s not a spell with a verbal component. I see no RAW reason you wouldn’t be able to use it by miming.

Terror Island writing tip: Specify that characters have names. This makes them more relatable. (That’s the title text for that comic.)

I’m imagining something like:

Player: I ask the NPC for his name.

GM: He tells you his name.

There’s also online fantasy name generators. Which basically just do that, but you don’t need to bother with tables.

Elppin is a valid Troll name.

I like this version better, though I admit it’s less relevant to the meme.