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gallagher
2010-06-21, 01:35 AM
so what is everyone's favorite use of prestidigitation? gnomes get it free once a day, and i love gnomes, so i figure i would like to know some of the favorite uses of it.

bonus points for crazyness

PId6
2010-06-21, 01:38 AM
1. Prestidigitation poison to taste like chocolate.
2. Give a bag of chocolates to your worst enemy.
3. ???
4. Profit!

Critical
2010-06-21, 01:42 AM
1. Make a brass ring look like something uber.
2. Magical Aura.
3. Sell it and GTFO out of town.
4. ???
5. Profit!

AdamSmasher
2010-06-21, 01:49 AM
1. Find a guy you don't like.
2. Wait until an important social gathering.
3. Soil his pants brown in the seat.
4. ???
5. Profit!

Stompy
2010-06-21, 01:58 AM
1. Find some kobold eggs
2. Use prestidigitation to make them taste like victory
3. Eat them raw in front of kobolds as an intimidation check
4. ???
5. Profit!

theMycon
2010-06-21, 02:24 AM
If we're allowing real-world prestidigitation here:

1: Take three pieces of cheese.
2: Put my dog's arthritis pill into one.
3: Show him the "empty" two, feed him one, let him sniff the other.
4: ...
5: Profit!
6: Give him the actual "empty" piece of cheese between his taking the pill-stuffed one and tasting it, so he swallows before he notices he's been tricked.

Draz74
2010-06-21, 02:58 AM
Enjoy good great toilet hygiene in a medieval world with no plumbing. This alone makes Prestidigitation 10x better than any other spell as far as improving your character's quality of life.

BobVosh
2010-06-21, 03:20 AM
Who uses toilets when they can fly and do it like birds?

I like "cooking" and selling what I "cook" with prestidigitation.

PId6
2010-06-21, 03:28 AM
Who uses toilets when they can fly and do it like birds?

I like "cooking" and selling what I "cook" with prestidigitation.
Better hope they eat it within the hour...

Lycanthromancer
2010-06-21, 03:34 AM
Clean the cubic foot of air around your face.

Enjoy immunity to inhaled poisons and drowning for 1 hour/casting.

Greymane
2010-06-21, 06:53 AM
When you get to the BBEG, wait for him to start his monologue, then soil his trousers.

Snake-Aes
2010-06-21, 07:51 AM
Dramatic wind on your hair for dynamic entries, definitely. It's a smidgen ahead of personal hygiene.

Serpentine
2010-06-21, 08:09 AM
I've heard of a whole bunch of elves (or something like that) getting annoyed at someone in the middle of a very anti-drow elven city. They got annoyed at one of their members, so they each prestidigitated them: one made her hair white, another made her skin black, a third made her eyes red... and then they set the city on them.

Later they stole a bridge.

Cowboy
2010-06-21, 08:23 AM
Clean the cubic foot of air around your face.

Enjoy immunity to inhaled poisons and drowning for 1 hour/casting.

I don't think it would stop you drowning; it cannot duplicate the effects of any other spell.

Now I think about it, it won't stop poison air for the same reason.

Choco
2010-06-21, 08:26 AM
Turning other PC's, their mounts, their animal companions, and/or their equipment pink as they sleep.

Steward
2010-06-21, 08:28 AM
Now I think about it, it won't stop poison air for the same reason.

I suppose that elf thing that Serpentine mentioned wouldn't work either, seeing as how it copies the effect of "Inflict Critical Wounds".

Heliomance
2010-06-21, 08:28 AM
Turning other PC's, their mounts, their animal companions, and/or their equipment pink as they sleep.

I was on the receiving end of that use in a Dragons campaign I was in. My insanely good diplomancer promptly flew to the High Council and used crazy bluff checks to convince them that he was a survivor of a previously unknown tribe of Rose Dragons that had run afoul of the Tarrasque (horribly buffed in this setting). Cue massive search and rescue effort to try and find any other survivors of the tribe.

Snake-Aes
2010-06-21, 08:43 AM
I suppose that elf thing that Serpentine mentioned wouldn't work either, seeing as how it copies the effect of "Inflict Critical Wounds".

You mean the make-up? The spell only did the make-up, an effect fully within its description. If the raging folk with the torches and pitchforks are that gullible, that's their problem.

Serpentine
2010-06-21, 09:55 AM
It could have been an issue because it was technically replicating the effects of Disguise Self, but I think the fact that it was a series of Prestidigitations rather than just one made it more or less by the book.

But yeah, avoiding drowning, I don't think that'd do it. There's a pretty substantial difference between "make a damp cloth dry" and "create a bubble of air".

Optimystik
2010-06-21, 09:59 AM
I like to fix broken items.

Oh wait, only the psionic version can do that.

daemonfrog
2010-06-21, 10:01 AM
1. Make a giant wall of blue energy to make verybody listen to you.
2. Make a diplomacy check with a +20 bonus.
3. ???
4. Profit

Critical
2010-06-21, 10:22 AM
1. Make a giant wall of blue energy to make verybody listen to you.
2. Make a diplomacy check with a +20 bonus.
3. ???
4. Profit

...What? :smallconfused:

Ravens_cry
2010-06-21, 10:39 AM
I once played a half-orc sorcerer and they had prestidigitation. I made a rock taste like roast onions.
Long story.

WeeFreeMen
2010-06-21, 11:21 AM
Turn a players Skin a different color, tell everyone that he's contracted the plauge. Watch as the town runs for the hills and you can loot the spoils.

That is, until the kings army comes to purge you. Non the less, dismiss it.
"But good sir, as you can plainly see I am not sick."

:] We made alot of money that day.

Snake-Aes
2010-06-21, 11:23 AM
I do hope you used a damn powerful bluff check there :p Supersticious as peasants are, they'll try to appraise if the plague is really a plague.

WeeFreeMen
2010-06-21, 11:34 AM
Bard. And yeah, I had Glibness.
If I remember correct, my bluffs for the day were around 70+ (Before Dice..)