D&D Players, What is your favourite unnecessary spell?
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Summon Lesser Demons. Nothing puts greater panic in a DMs face than the words "I pour the vial of blood in a circle blocking the doorway and summon 8 Stench Kows in the other room" then arcane locking the door and letting his encounter get absolutely slaughtered.
Stench kows are beasts. Did you mean conjure animals?
@@Tabledar Weird, they show up on the listing of Fiends by CR
@@Dan-fw2db They come up as beasts on every resource I can find.
Volo's Guide and Mordenkainen's Monsters of the Universe has them as fiends hilarious enough.
@@AoAD That's very strange. Every site from roll20 to psrd to donjon to the forgotten realms wiki says Beast. The published book is basically the final say, but I wonder if there's an errata for those books that might say otherwise.
Edit: I did go looking, and volo's guide has Rothe and Stench Kows under the Cow stat line as large beasts. I don't own monsters of the universe.
Yes, it is possible to make a computer with magic mouth. This can be done for several reasons. One is that since magic mouth has no size requirements, it can be on an object as small as you want, so you can fit just about as many magic mouths in the 30 foot detection radius of all other magic mouths. There is also no mention of the detected phenomena having to be heard by the mouth, but simply that it must occur in the 30 ft space around it. This means the message can be as quiet as you want, to the point of being inaudible to most creatures, but it will still be picked up by another magic mouth. In addition, all the components of a computer can be replicated with magic mouth (the difference being that the ones and zeros are being very quietly spoken by the mouths). Thus, you can make a computer that will cost around you the entirety of the gold in the forgotten realms.
But can it run Doom?
@@Buildonsound anything that can run a single thread of code can run Doom.
@@alextrill1746 ayo is that true?
@@hahaureadmyname yes. Doom being a single-thread program is what makes it so insanely adaptable.
I once had a player who would use prestidigitation to shit somebody else's pants. Easily top 5 uses of the spell
I like this spell a lot. I played a Warforged Artificer (Armorer) who was basically a fantasy and slightly more serious version of Inspector Gadget. I used a Warforged with an uncanny human face because at the time, none of us had any idea that Reborns were an option. Prestidigitation was the bread and butter for flavor as it was the best way to include all the niche and nearly useless gadgets the OG inspector had.
I did this while playing strixhaven, got caught, and ended up in combat with a warlock
PANR has tuned in.
Mage hand. It has many uses, sure. Do I use it for that? No. I board a friendly ship, hide, and sneak into a room with a few fellows talking. I cast Mage hand to mess with them. The hands materializes, one stands to confront it with a sword. Mage hand, using one finger, engages in the battle. The sailor misses, Mage hand pokes the sailor in the chest. It backs up, gives a wave goodbye, and vanishes. Sailor, thinking he's been cursed, panics.
I love mage hand. I even use unseen servant sometimes to do the exact same
@@w1nther930 unseen servant is such a good spell!
@@postapocalypticnewsradio Legit. I've had it steal weapons from guards to make them defenseless, gave it a torch to light a fire in a tent without being noticed. Works really well for trolling too, as I once had it shove up a soap in an enemy's... you know what. (DM said if i rolled 15 or above, I'd be allowed to do that as long as it didn't do damage)
Finaly, effing impossibe to tune in my favorite station through this radstorm
I heard if you're a gnome, you can cast reduce size on yourself and you'll weigh under the max for magic hand (or Bigby's hand?) and it can pick you up to move you around for flight😊
One of them is True Strike.
I know many people give it shit, but for my Arcane Trickster Rogue, it just works. So he'll bonus action hide, then use his action to use True Strike since it's Somatic only, no speaking required.
Once the target gets to the right spot, he leaps out and attacks with advantage using a gauratte wire, allowing the use of sneak attack and possible strangling the target as the wire uses both hands.
Since he's a Loxodon Rogue + Rule of Cool, he can use his bonus action to stab using a dagger with his trunk.
Another unessecary spell I like to use for the healer NPC in Storm King's Thunder is Ceremony, which she only uses to make holy water to drink, which baffles the party.
Lastly is used in my reflavored COS called Curse of Strahdboli, where he uses Magic Mouth on a statue inside the house, having it invite him in after giving a certain knock.
Oh shit that True Strike Rogue sounds awesome, and the rule of cool really helps it out, glad to see dms allow stuff like that
I've only ever had one character that had True Strike. It was more for roleplaying purposes than utility. I wanted to try something new, and made a Monk/Sorcerer. Since you can't advance Monk levels once you take a different class, I incorporated that into his story. His teachers were amazed at his great archery skills, and wondered how he did it. And since Sorcerers are said to come into their powers sorta accidentally, sometimes, or at onset of puberty...
Once they figured out he was using arcane arts instead of martial arts (though he himself just thought he was really concentrating hard on hitting the target), he was expelled from the order. Think I had Monk 3/Sorcerer 2 before that game broke up for some reason. The group really didn't like the character, as my spell progression was behind the curve. "If you were just plain Sorcerer 5 you could have cast fireball in that last battle", etc.
That was 3.5 days, when True Strike was +20 to hit, not just advantage like in 5th. I feel that was a nerf to a spell not many used in the first place.
If your rogue is already in stealth they already have advantage on an attack role. You don’t even need True Strike.
If you attack from hidden you already have advantage (and maybe even surprise) because you are an unseen attacker
@@AndrewBrownK True, but if the target has a feat that prevents them from being surprised, flanked, or snuck up on, you'd still have advantage.
Druidcraft. There are so many other ways to mimic animal noises. Dms rarely use weather. And unless it's a rare plant/spell resource, there's no point in making flowers bloom. My nature cleric however loved it to always have a stash of pot. He rolled a joint mid conversation with a seahag coven. He was able to persuade them with his gift. One was mad because we had no alcohol, but she took to the seaweed rather quickly.
I have a totem barbarian that I'm considering taking Magic Initiate: Druid to have Druid Craft and Thorn Whip. I was also tempted to just ask for the cantrip since I want to heavily play into the shamanistic side of totem barbarian.
The best effect is being able to instantly, silently extinguish minor light sources. Or make sure another party member's armor always smells of skunk spray, depending on your priorities.
The best way to use the freinds cantrip is to use it in combination with a disguise spell or a general disguise and make sure you look like someone you want the ither npc to hate and bam you just made in fighting between 2 npc characters
My rogue picked up encode thoughts so she could weave thoughts or emotions into clothing (we modified it a bit so it would work). Now we have a coat that gives you the fuzzies when you put it on!
Delayed blast fireball. To me it feels unnecessary since there are a good amount of other spells of the that can do the damage it does, without the potential of nuking your allies as well. That being said, I love the idea of an even more absurd fireball that does an absurd amount of damage AND becomes stronger as long as it doesn’t get touched. Amazing. Edit: I also love thaumaturgy as it is cool but almost completely useless. Also why does only cleric and drakewarden ranger get it?
I use thaumaturgy to play the phineas and ferb themesong as it lasts for up to 1 minute and the song is 57 seconds long
@@Blackjack-vx2jb That is an amazing way to use thaumaturgy. I wish I could see the reaction of your table.
It's a DM spell. Good for BBEGs to set traps and to work from for odd player ideas. The example from my 5th level group was the Dwarf miner (berseker), Artifier (alchemist), and Evoker working together to use a necklace of fireballs (8 beads) to destory a dungeon. I (DM) used Delayed Fireball to guage the damage and the evoker has the spell in their book but can't cast it by themselves yet.
@@hart-of-gold There’s something I didn’t consider. Makes more sense as a DM’s spell.
@@Blackjack-vx2jb I had a Cleric that used Thaumaturgy to dramatically open a set of MASSIVE double doors. They weren't locked.
I've also seen it used opening a hidden door. It wasn't locked, but there were 2 other doors in range that WERE locked.
The best spell is 🌈imagination🌈
7:50 it exists because presumably somone created the spell jamming Helms that do exist at some point. And if the spell didn’t exist that would be a plot hole.
I love a lot of the spells from 3.5's draconomicon because of all the awesome flavour they have. A suped up arcane mark that allows a dragon to scry on their possessions three times per day? Gold. A spell that lets a dragon turn their stomach into a bag of holding so they can safely consume their entire hoard to transport it to a new lair? Fantastic. Breath spells that add a nasty status condition to their breath weapon? Beautiful. The only problem? Most of these fun spells are situational, and dragons are sorcerers, so they'll almost never have the spells known for niche utility magics like wizards. At the same time, dragons are mostly loner creatures, so it's not like they'd be able to commission scrolls, wands, or know stones of these spells from the one dragon that does know it.
Likewise, there's a spell in dragons of Faerun that allows two dragon blooded creatures to swap a spell known to each other. The thing that makes it theoretically god tier is that it doesn't require it to be a spell on your class's spell list. Awesome potential, but you'd have to have one very permissive DM to let your kobold sorcerer find a dragon favoured soul or bard that knows the exact spell you're after and is willing to trade, so it's basically "dragon McGuffin plot hook, the spell" for whatever powerful magic is required to beat the BBEG. Although the idea of a Dragon Facebook set up just to help facilitate such transactions for standard use is hilarious to me.
Unseen servant came in handy when I wanted to grab a letter off of a table that belonged to an NPC but was being watched. Since I was being watched the unseen servant easily took the letter out the door. Magic mouth can have some utility with by using a key phrase or word to guard/alarm a hidden door. Not fool proof but can alert anyone near by if someone unauthorized is attempting to open/gain access.
Legend Lore is one of my favorites to use with DMs who do a lot of world building. It allows them to gush about whatever lore they have written for something
I used that one in the most recent session.
I loved building cabins with fabricate everywhere I went
Unseen servant is awesome for sending ahead on dangerous terrain. Sure the servant may be invisible but it can wear a cloak and hat which can fool or at least startle anyone encountering it.
Magic mouth made computers though a process I don’t fully understand by relaying information between multiple mouths saying trigger words, similar to coding.
Skywrite: For a second level ritual you can put a short message in the sky made out of clouds. With no cost it can be fun just to troll some nasty NPCs.
Didn't think this would be the first one that sprang to mind, but Prestidigitation. I've used it for all sorts of goofy things before, including making a more chaotic PC appear to be doing nothing at all. But then a good friend of mine in my current group inadvertently taught me that by the wording of the spell, you can use it to clean yourself off when necessary.
Every single time we've been splattered with viscera or various types of goo, the first thing we do the moment we're safe is Prestidigitation everyone clean again. It's fantastic.
Augury. It's not super helpful a lot of the time, but when it comes in useful, it can really help the party decide what they should do. I once cast it when an obelisk appeared in the middle of a city to see what would happen if we destroyed it; getting "nothing" told us that we should try something else.
I've got an Arcane Trickster Rogue who gets a lot of mileage out of Prestidigitation, Mage Hand, and Minor Illusion. Sneaking though passages is a lot easier when you can just create an illusion of the space behind you in front of you. You can see what's a head but they can't see you, especially useful for turning corners or hiding in plain sight
I'm sorry, did someone say Mending and Prestidigitation are useless!?
My wizard has both, and let me tell you, they have come in clutch!
The tower you've just got done trashing in a fight because the druid loves to be a rhino? Chain cast mending, and shore up the base so you don't have tons of stone fall on you! (Per DM approval, of course)
Got a slimy moss covered walkway you need to get across, but have the Dex of a baby panda? Chain cast Prestidigitation to clean off the gunk!
Those spells are only limited by your imagination.
Yeah I've heard prestidigitation is one of the best spells if you're creative enough.
I hadn't thought about using mending on structures before.... hmmm
@@jwmmitch it's useless for combat, but as long as the break is no more than a foot in any dimension, your golden RAW. Rule of cool, on the other hand... The possibilities are endless
And I've heard prestidigitation called "Least Wish", which is one hell of a way to put it!
My current campaign has a Necromancer NPC and I cast Gentle Repose before bed so that his summons almost never have to be reset.
Made a character for a campaign who used prestigitaion to make his hair look like black fire.
Every time I make some kind of charisma driven character I like to ask the DM to let me get Finger Gun from Valda's Spire of Secrets (specifically a weaker Bonus Action homebrew version, but the og one is good too). Nothing screams goofy badass like finishing off a goblin with a crappy one-liner and finger guns. It's * exactly * my style and it shows.
12:54 Eldritch Knight
Especially with the 2024 rules
a guy did a logic system ,computor like with using magic mounth to do things
My Paladin has a Legendary Longsword. And asked the Cleric to upcast Continual Flame on it. Because if you upcast to 3rd level (most commonly during some downtime, where the slots are less important), it becomes immune to Darkness. Meaning he now has a 'torch' that doesn't leave him unarmed to hold.
And it just helps with intimidation, because... *FLAMING SWORD*
Speak with Animals is also a lot of fun.
I've played a Mark of Handling Shepherd Druid. As in, the guy could talk to Beast *AND* Monstrosities without expending a spell slot (DM approval for the Monstrosities part).
It resulted in our discovering where the Cranium Rats in the sewers where hiding by asking some regular rats about what happened. And by asking some crows for help investigating a traveling circus, we literally uncovered some vampires using them as cover to getting around and killing folks. In broad daylight. With backup from the local Paladin order.
Suffice to say, those Vampires didn't manage to get out of that one. And we all did that before we hit level 5. Sadly, the campaign fizzled because of RL reasons. I still want to play that Druid again in a campaign sometime.
I would have to say Mold Earth, by extension Control Flames, Gust, and Shape Water. I've heard that some DMs allow Prestidigitation to so the same thing but there is just something about it being specifically elemental that I find really neat. I know there are better ways to make or get rid of difficult terrain but something about Mold Earth that just makes that better. I really like those type of utility spells because you can come up with some creative ideas on using them if you really try.
Mold Earth is fantastic for easy digging of graves, quick archeology, unburying treasure, etc. I get a lot of mileage out of that one!
I once used Shape Water in a wet basement to reveal the tentacle monster grabbing the fighters through a grate in the floor. It was a game changer! The fighters were able to drive off the beast, which was supposed to be a much harder battle by forcing the fighters to flail in the water at a creature they couldn't see.
I twice used prestidigitation to create a small set of thieves tools to pick the lock of a jail cell I was in. (a lock picking set isn't that big IRL)
I once took Tiny Hut for a one-shot.
The theme was a western train heist.
I was playing an gnome wizard called Kyndly, who I had once played before in another one-shot.
he was a huge hit with the players.
His stats rolled awful, but the DM allowed me to dump INT and take a band of intellect.
Canonically, Kyndly accidentally plane shifts and has no idea how to control it.
Anyway, we were discussing how exactly we would either stop, or board the train, when my less than 3ft tall Ancient little bald man says "I'll handle that." And proceeded to walk into the center of the train tracks, sit down and cast tiny hut...
Eventually, the train came through and impacted the tiny hut so fast it flipped off the tracks, causing a lot of panic and destruction.
After a short combat, we ended the one-one shot with about 30000 platinum per character.
My gnome eventually plane shifted back to his home world and payed off the material and construction costs of his very own wizard tower.
He now sits in luxury, awaiting another adventure...
Got one that could and should be more impactful, Contingency. A 6th level spell that takes 10 minutes to cast with a minimum of 1500gp reusable cost, it can effectively let you break the 'one spellcast per turn' limit rather easily along with ignoring cast time, and has similar mechanics to the spell variant of Glyph of Warding. Any 5th level spell that allows you to target yourself basically gets saved for later, autocasting as soon as your given conditions are met; sure the example of water breathing when drowning is sensible but lame given other possibilities, such as Tiny Hut to let you cheat death or Haste to bulldoze an encounter or a Blindness/Deafness to deny another creature's gaze/sonic effect.
Vortex Warp
the utility is amazing, especially if you have to get your tank from point A to point B faster than they can dash
combined with Arcane Eye to be able to use it around corners and such
not every useful for moving enemies though
Glyph of Warding is a spell that isn't great on players, but AMAZING for DMs! They're basically magic mines that you can store other spells into. You can make them really deadly, or do something stupid like Stinking Cloud for a big fart bomb.
Also, Skywrite. Useless, but fun for advertisements or slandering your local government!
As a DM, I accidentally made Prestidigitation and Mending the most important skills my Party had. See, they were all nere-do-wells who wouldn't stop looting every single piece of clothing and trinket off bandits or "Evil Villain" Guards to sell. I advised "No sane merchant will buy the lord's manor Guards' armor, let alone dented plate, torn chain and bloodied leather and cloth." The Bard has Prestidigitation, the Wizard has mending. They learned to fix up and slightly alter their loot for their filthy lucre.
At higher levels, when you cast Summon Chair it should become increasingly more grandiose.
1st Level- Ordinary wooden patio chair
5th Level- Fancy padded dinner table chair
10th Level- Ergonomic Swivel Chair
17th Level- Leather Recliner with heated massage
~_~
Magic mouth is practically security 101 for wizards. Make your wallet or your spell book scream when someone else touches it. Make your collar announce it when someone is sneaking up on you from behind.
Creation. For 90-97% of play, the things you create will be incredibly circumstantial and using a 5th lvl spell to make something that last long enough to be worth it is less likely than having the non-magical thing in the first place. But it's pretty fun to use it to create coins, go on a spree only for 1 hour later the coins you made vanish. And you get in a LOT of trouble if you're found out to be using it that way. Like angry mob of shop keepers levels of trouble.
No detect poison and disease ? You can detect best alcohol in the room and tell npc that they have cancer or something.
We had this once with our wizard. He just learnt a new spell and we were about to go into a big fight with several enemies. At the point we were all starting to struggle with the horde, one wizard’s turn, he asked if he could cast summon elementals. My DM’s face had the fallen look of ‘Really?’ appear as he counted out about 8 elementals, just barely having enough character chips for the board. This was while we were at a pub and while he did this, I just casually asked if anyone wanted anything at the bar while we waited.
Permanency. It was removed after 3rd edition but I love the idea of making temporary spells permanent. I don’t really care if someone wants to use it to make themselves OP, I want to keep my magically conjured chair and make my polymorphed enemies permanently harmless animals.
The Friends spell have been seriously nerfed since 2nd edition.
In 1st and 2dn edition is granted the caster a +2D4 charisma for 1D4 rounds + 1 round per caster's level. 1 round being about a minute or the time between two initiative rolls when in combat. It affected ALL creature within a 60' radius, affecting their reaction to the caster according to his augmented charisma, making them much more likely to have a positive reaction. At the end of the spell, the affected creatures realize that they had been influenced, but do NOT automatically become hostile. If the caster have been abusive, it can incur some negative reaction, but if he was pleasant and friendly himself, the affected creature may not really mind.
My table uses prestidigitation a lot two clean and dry off after mishaps. But once my party used a combo of spells to make a racist and classist Tavern keep stand on one of his tables and make embarrassing admissions, only for another player to cast prestidigitation on him while he was up there to make it look like he had soiled his pants on top of everything else. It cut some of the tension, so no one was really upset at the immaturity of it all.
Not a spell, but a completely pointless thing I did:
The party had scaled a cliff and was now safe from an angry mob of kobolds. I decided to insult them for no reason by pulling out the good ol’ classic “YOUR MOTHER WAS A HAMSTER, AND YOUR FATHER SMELLED OF ELDERBERRIES!” According to the DM, one of the kobolds was so broken by that insult that he proceeded to walk into the ocean.
Holy cow! I’m early! Mine is mending and Purify Water. In case you go into the city and don’t want city water and you want pure undisturbed clean water😊
Spirit shroud or presdidgation by far
a epic level 250+ wizird fireball spell slot? not like we normaly do such super never done exescvly high level late or end game epic spells.
...Why did the DM port Tomb of Horrors over from 1e, when WotC already did exactly that in Tales from the Yawning Portal?
As I understand, that's a compilation of modules from older editions ported over to 5e. By the people that MADE the system....
Actually, I think I see why the DM ported it over himself...
Oh man I hadn't even pondered on just how much reincarnate. Friggin. SUCKS! It's twice as costly as its same spell level Raise dead, with the added inconvenience of not knowing what you'll end up as, and only the fringe benefit of not having to restore missing body parts, which is usually handled by the cleric, be it party one or temple.
To make Reincarnate more desireable I would change it to:
-It becomes a 4th level spell
-Timeframe increases to a month
-Classes that get it increase to include Clerics and Bards
-Cost reduced to 500g
-Instead of rolling on the table, the player and DM can agree on a new race that thematically fits the character. So for example a Human PC who always remembered who wronged them reincarnates as a Dwarf. A Murderhobo tendencies Elf comes back as a red Tiefling, a shy and meek Tabaxi comes back as a Halfling, etc.
not getting the -4 penalty is where its good
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I mean, that's fair. But if you've trekked all the way to raise your fallen teammate, I'd say a week of downtime ain't too tall an ask.
The Find Familiar one... So... Your reasoning to why it's an "unneccessary spell" is that you whine at your DM for long enough to just give you the effect *anyway*?
Just skip the whining part and take the damn spell.
uhh... true strike... i only use it for rp reasons
Um... Early comment???
Can't pronounce revivify. wtf?
2:44 What a weird spelling of infinite.
7:26 it exists because it's a spell jammer specific spell... why don't people look at where spells come from?
I kinda wish magic stones actually... worked. Like, it scales horribly, and has a strict limit. I tried to use it as a fighter, but past level 5, you simply couldn't make enough rocks to sustain yourself.
As a Sorcidin (Paladin/Sorcerer), I use Lightning Lure to great effect with the Quicken Spell metamagic. My Tabaxi Sorcidin pirate uses it like a grappling hook to yank enemies away from allies and into a double strike of a lv 7 Shadow Blade. And with Sentinel, they aren't going ANYWHERE!
**Lightning Lariat**
Unseen servant. We were in a 3way battle arena, and I used it at first to write a message to another team that we'd be teaming up against the home (we had both been kidnapped). After that, I used it to steal a weapon from the enemy
Alter Self is a bit better than some people think. Namely, spells or abilities that detect illusions... do not detect Alter Self. Because Alter Self is a Transmutation spell, not an Illusion spell. It wont stop Truesight (neither would Disguise Self), but I would not call Alter Self a worse version of Disguise Self. Alter Self is a 2nd level spell for a reason, compared to Disguise Self being 1st level. Sure, Alter Self being a concentration spell is a bit of a drag, but it technically does grant more capabilities than Disguise Self does, but the most crucial one is there is no "illusion" to see through since it is a direct change to the physical body.
Magic Mouth is absurdly OP. You're basically creating a permanent minor magic item for 10 gp. You could make an alarm that start screaming if there's a burglar, or a jukebox that sings a song whenever someone puts a copper piece in, or something you could toss to distract people while sneaking that starts speaking the incantation for Fireball, and plenty of other creative uses. It can be triggered by any visual and audible condition within 30 feet, without any sort of perception check. As long as it's possible to see or hear someone, it can go off. You could carry one around, and make it impossible for anyone to sneak up on you.
And you can make the conditions as simple or complex as you want. You don't need to have a single magic mouth for each logic gate to make a computer. You can make a computer with one magic mouth. Or two so they can say "zero" and "one". And you're not even limited to the computable. You could make the condition be if it's shown a computer program that would halt.
The spelljammwr one is probably a reminant of a campaign
Pathfinder's Coin shot.
Weaponizes money. Turns three pieces of coin into weapons that vary in power depending on the coin used, killed 2 orcs with my Nobleman Magus by literally yeeting a gold coin at each and scoring nay 20s.
Back again with my custom campaign, I don’t have a good answer for this question. The most unnecessary spell in my game is my bother’s favorite, the wall summon, which summons a stupidly large brick wall that serves no purpose but to intentionally get in the way. Somehow my brother isn’t annoyed by this spell at all and it’s become his favorite to use in any situation. At least he’s embraced what’s supposed to be unhelpful.
Home brew spell : Chronos VII. That spell allow you to accurately time up to 10 events, check if they are recurrent, and gives you the length of time down to the 12 960 000th of a second. All of it showing as glowing cuneiform, base 60, numbers floating in the air near whatever timing you are measuring. Format being years, months, days, hour, minutes, seconds, thirds, fourths, fifths and sixths. The Chronos VIII adds two more levels of precision.
Speak to animals ? Then, how about Speak to Plants ?
Prestidigitation is the most versatile cantrip, especially for story-dense games.
My fiance and I figured out how to fly by level 1 using 3 sets of mage hand and the bag of holding our DM gave my character to deal with his small size.
We used it to escape a truely massive worm.
Pathfinder 1st edition. Shrink item and permanency made it possible to turn my wizard into a mobile ballista crew. At level 6 it took 3 rounds to get going but 4d6 damage a round before shenanigans was well worth it. If I had played past lvl 10 I would have upgraded to cannons and would rain destruction upon anyone
While it's not exactly RAW, my divine soul sorc loves to scour the battlefields after combats casting spare the dying to look for surviving prisoners or refugees the party can expl- uh, help.
Augury can be dramatic for the sick of being dramatic if you ritual cast it before some big event on the campaign, even though the answer is often impossible to interpret. Prestidigitation is my go-to explanation of how my characters don't stink (and yes, very strictly speaking, you can't use it this way, but unless you are so deep into survival that you count non-drinking water and soap, I believe it doesn't really matter). I also once used a continuous flame to create a memorial to the PCs late sister (the previous character of mine)
9:44 a fun use of Maze is to go 8+ wizard followed by enough wizard levels to prep Maze, then twin cast it on your beefiest boy and your worst enemy. Just trap both of them in an arena where the baddie has to start making checks to escape the beef’s wrath
Magnificent mansion- turn it into a side business as a special inn of rare luxury. Throw in your imagination to make the place something truly special and as long as you make more than 1000 gold your in consistent business
Answer: Any spell that prevents an offensive letter "u" from being inserted into the word "favorite". We don't want to anger the ghost 👻 of Noah Webster.
Since it says unnecessary rather than useless, I absolutely love the over the top anime bullshit attached to Steelwind Strike.
Magic Mouth can do most anything tbh
I love speak with plants, as a vegetarian it makes me feel like a speak with animals druid.
Passwall, I've only ever seen it be used once but it's just a fun concept
spare the dying is way too strong to not take imo
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I like mending for flavor purposes. My favorite artificer NPC uses it to help her sew or mend clothes and fix machines during her side jobs.
I had a battle-smith who took up Magic Initiate Druid. The other cantrip I took up was Shillelagh because despite using Wisdom, a battle-smith has the ability to use intelligence instead as long as the weapon is magical. Shillelagh takes any wooden staff or club into a magical d8 weapon.
It was useful as it freed up an extra attunement slot for something else for a while and the DM allowed me to make most fat and durable sticks I find into a makeshift club, so I almost always had an emergency weapon on hand.
Gust - cantrip.
This bad boy is great for drama. You can blow the door closed, blow the tent flap open, make your cloak ripple heroically as you stand triumphant over a fallen foe...