When casting the cantrip Thorn Whip, if the melee attack is successful, could the caster specifiy that the whip wraps around the target's feet and thus knocks the target prone as it's pulled (10 ft) closer?
thewilderness wrote:
I could see in a home game having similar things happen, but in orginized play I dont think such liberal interpurtations would work.
If you want to trip or prone someone, you need to get some battle manuevers, either from three levels of fighter, or the feat.
Or use grease 
Of course if you're a druid you could just wild shape into a wolf...
What about the pulling effect? Is it optional? It says "up to 10 feet" but "up to" includes numbers like 5 and 0.
Aldrin_Swage wrote:
The only way that Thorn Whip causes prone is by using the 10 feet pull to pull someone off of a higher landing, so they take fall damage and end that fall prone (at your feet, presumably.)