Renduaz
2017-05-17, 09:43 AM
Continuing from my last thread ( http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?519713-The-God-of-Cantrips-Most-overpowered-uses-you-can-think-of&p=21858805#post21858805 ), it is time to let out your inner munchkin. It is time to transform what those naive thinkers at Wizards of the Coast imagined to be an harmless curiosity, into the power of a deity. This is the place to post the most powerful combinations and applications of cantrips you can think of.
Bubble Trouble: Cast Shape Water into a 5x5 feet sphere or smaller as needed for 1 hour, change it's opacity to completely opaque, and the next time you see an enemy, encapsulate his head with it. Good luck to him without water breathing or trying to suck in all the water ( Which you will animate right out of his lips ), and if he tries splashing the bubble away with his hands or anything else, just animate the water right back into the sphere before they even leave. Did I mention you could put a swarm of quippers in your water bubble?
Water Wheels: Just how much velocity can you move water with using Shape Water anyway? The only thing we know is that it can't be powerful enough to cause damage, so near light speed must be out of the question. But then it remains to be answered, "Damage to what and whom"? Surely not a bug, nor adamantine. Most reasonably the average human or a monster of CR 1/8 at least then. Now, a even a fire hose jettison won't be enough to cause damage by itself, but even at much lower speeds, this will still work - Take four wheels designed like those of a water mill, no more than 5 feet in diameter, and attach them to a cart or sled which is just enough for you to sit on. Pour a lot of water next to the wheels. Use Shape Water to propel the wheels forward. Alternatively, turn the water near the two front wheels into small spheres which fit in the folds of you water wheel and animate them to propel those.
Daern's Instant Trench: Use Mold Earth to dig up a hole for you to take up to 3/4 cover in when fighting in open terrain on loose soil or earth, which is most grasslands or forests.
Daern's Instant Trap: Take out a 5x5 cube of earth and fill the hole with spikes or anything else you can think of. Bear traps are especially useful. Continue doing this in a line in front of you or circle around you. Cover the holes back with the loose earth. Have someone else lure a melee enemy or do so yourself from a distance while readying an action. When he's about to step into the 5x5 feet area of your covered trap, immediately snatch the loose earth from under his feet. An even better alternatively is to cast this as deep as possible, more than 5 feet, until you reach packed or hard earth, over a large zone, cover your pit with leaves or branches, then use mold Earth again to sprinkle some of the loose earth over them, enough to hide the trapped area, and now you could possibly even kill an entire unaware army depending on how deep and what kind of traps of mechanisms you had installed in the pit area.
Firestarter: Even Control Flame's most basic function will let you completely burn any wooden or otherwise flameable structure in up to 60 feet square foot by expanding 5 feet at the time with a range of 60 feet. Pretty good. You could cast Grease or carry small barrels of tar or oil to create a 60 feet expanse of burning terrain anywhere, particularly dungeons.
Light Distraction: With Dancing Light's ability to appear as torches or lanterns or even combine into a vaguely humanoid form of medium size, in dark environments this is basically akin to a distraction with Minor Illusion, except that this has a range of up to 120 feet. You can move them around, or wink them out of existence only to manifest them 120 feet in another direction.
Garangutan Druidcraft: Are there giant leaves or flowers in your campaign? You can now presumably carry their miniature buds on you and erupt them to their full magnificence whenever they are needed.
Arcane Chef: As much as WOTC attempted to prevent most of their spells from potentially allowing a magic user to break a campaign's economy or accumulate stacks of gold effortlessly ( There are actually a few ways to do this, but this one is notable for being just the most basic cantrip ), I think they've missed the financial implications of Prestidigitation's "flavor up to 1 cubic foot of nonliving material for up to 1 hour ( And it's not as if you couldn't just instantly recast it before 1 hour has even passed or immediately after )", with seemingly no boundary on the flavor you can create. With this you could take the cheapest wine or ale, change it's flavor to that of the most expensive wine or ale in the world, and sell cups of it in some mini-bar or stall to pretty much everyone who can't afford the latter, for a much reduced price, yet higher than what you paid for the cheap wine or ale. You could do what everyone in our own society would become a billionaire if he successfully managed to through science - replicate the perfect taste of sweets, sugar or other unhealthy foods in an healthy food. It doesn't even have to be illegitimate, you can straight up inform buyers that you're selling Prestidigitation-altered ordinary wine which will still taste perfectly like the finest vintages or healthy foods which taste perfectly like the most lavish desserts or sweets. Still going to be highly enjoyable within the hour when it will long pass down to their stomach. You might lose a bit of the prestige value on things like beer, wine and other drinks, but various peasants and workers or even the higher class will still be willing to pay extra ( Yet nowhere near the full price ) for what is essentially the same taste, , much as it happens in our world with either clothes or foods and so forth. And when it comes to replicating the taste of unhealthy foods in healthy ones, it won't matter. Not to mention turning every meal into the most delicious ever.
Food Poisoning: This one can actually kill creatures without even using poison, or creatures who have immunity to poison. Using Prestidigitation, take any non-consumable liquid or chemical which looks like water or a brew or that giant's ale, change it's flavor to that, and someone is going to gulp down a whole battle of toxic material, use in combination with Shape Water to even give it the same color if need be, plant where you want or replace the creature's drink, and watch as it gulps down a whole ****ing jug of pure poison or Mercury ( If brew/sauce/something has similar texture ) or God knows what without ever noticing it. Until he's dead, that is.
Profitable Blossoming: To a minor extent, "You instantly make a flower boom", and to a much greater extent, "You instantly make a leaf bud blossom" can be used to make gold with edible leaves such as cabbage or more expensively, difficult to grow cooking herbs by obtaining/purchasing the seeds and foregoing what would normally be the cost of watering, fertilizing and especially the massive amount of time needed, not to mention the risk factor of a poor season or drought, by simply blossoming all of their leaves instantly as soon as you have the buds. Can also lend your service to any farmers you pass by, "Hey sir, how about I make your entire cabbage field/herb garden all blossom instantly instead of you toiling for a few months and risking poor crops which didn't grow or bad weather and fertilization, for a small price?". With the expensive, exotic spicing herbs or flowers like Lotus, Anise and so forth which would normally be a huge pain in the ass to grow properly under the right climate, you could make a lot of gold by just blossoming their buds instantly. Not to mention also blooming various flowers used for perfumes, medicinal herbs, and so forth.
Bubble Trouble: Cast Shape Water into a 5x5 feet sphere or smaller as needed for 1 hour, change it's opacity to completely opaque, and the next time you see an enemy, encapsulate his head with it. Good luck to him without water breathing or trying to suck in all the water ( Which you will animate right out of his lips ), and if he tries splashing the bubble away with his hands or anything else, just animate the water right back into the sphere before they even leave. Did I mention you could put a swarm of quippers in your water bubble?
Water Wheels: Just how much velocity can you move water with using Shape Water anyway? The only thing we know is that it can't be powerful enough to cause damage, so near light speed must be out of the question. But then it remains to be answered, "Damage to what and whom"? Surely not a bug, nor adamantine. Most reasonably the average human or a monster of CR 1/8 at least then. Now, a even a fire hose jettison won't be enough to cause damage by itself, but even at much lower speeds, this will still work - Take four wheels designed like those of a water mill, no more than 5 feet in diameter, and attach them to a cart or sled which is just enough for you to sit on. Pour a lot of water next to the wheels. Use Shape Water to propel the wheels forward. Alternatively, turn the water near the two front wheels into small spheres which fit in the folds of you water wheel and animate them to propel those.
Daern's Instant Trench: Use Mold Earth to dig up a hole for you to take up to 3/4 cover in when fighting in open terrain on loose soil or earth, which is most grasslands or forests.
Daern's Instant Trap: Take out a 5x5 cube of earth and fill the hole with spikes or anything else you can think of. Bear traps are especially useful. Continue doing this in a line in front of you or circle around you. Cover the holes back with the loose earth. Have someone else lure a melee enemy or do so yourself from a distance while readying an action. When he's about to step into the 5x5 feet area of your covered trap, immediately snatch the loose earth from under his feet. An even better alternatively is to cast this as deep as possible, more than 5 feet, until you reach packed or hard earth, over a large zone, cover your pit with leaves or branches, then use mold Earth again to sprinkle some of the loose earth over them, enough to hide the trapped area, and now you could possibly even kill an entire unaware army depending on how deep and what kind of traps of mechanisms you had installed in the pit area.
Firestarter: Even Control Flame's most basic function will let you completely burn any wooden or otherwise flameable structure in up to 60 feet square foot by expanding 5 feet at the time with a range of 60 feet. Pretty good. You could cast Grease or carry small barrels of tar or oil to create a 60 feet expanse of burning terrain anywhere, particularly dungeons.
Light Distraction: With Dancing Light's ability to appear as torches or lanterns or even combine into a vaguely humanoid form of medium size, in dark environments this is basically akin to a distraction with Minor Illusion, except that this has a range of up to 120 feet. You can move them around, or wink them out of existence only to manifest them 120 feet in another direction.
Garangutan Druidcraft: Are there giant leaves or flowers in your campaign? You can now presumably carry their miniature buds on you and erupt them to their full magnificence whenever they are needed.
Arcane Chef: As much as WOTC attempted to prevent most of their spells from potentially allowing a magic user to break a campaign's economy or accumulate stacks of gold effortlessly ( There are actually a few ways to do this, but this one is notable for being just the most basic cantrip ), I think they've missed the financial implications of Prestidigitation's "flavor up to 1 cubic foot of nonliving material for up to 1 hour ( And it's not as if you couldn't just instantly recast it before 1 hour has even passed or immediately after )", with seemingly no boundary on the flavor you can create. With this you could take the cheapest wine or ale, change it's flavor to that of the most expensive wine or ale in the world, and sell cups of it in some mini-bar or stall to pretty much everyone who can't afford the latter, for a much reduced price, yet higher than what you paid for the cheap wine or ale. You could do what everyone in our own society would become a billionaire if he successfully managed to through science - replicate the perfect taste of sweets, sugar or other unhealthy foods in an healthy food. It doesn't even have to be illegitimate, you can straight up inform buyers that you're selling Prestidigitation-altered ordinary wine which will still taste perfectly like the finest vintages or healthy foods which taste perfectly like the most lavish desserts or sweets. Still going to be highly enjoyable within the hour when it will long pass down to their stomach. You might lose a bit of the prestige value on things like beer, wine and other drinks, but various peasants and workers or even the higher class will still be willing to pay extra ( Yet nowhere near the full price ) for what is essentially the same taste, , much as it happens in our world with either clothes or foods and so forth. And when it comes to replicating the taste of unhealthy foods in healthy ones, it won't matter. Not to mention turning every meal into the most delicious ever.
Food Poisoning: This one can actually kill creatures without even using poison, or creatures who have immunity to poison. Using Prestidigitation, take any non-consumable liquid or chemical which looks like water or a brew or that giant's ale, change it's flavor to that, and someone is going to gulp down a whole battle of toxic material, use in combination with Shape Water to even give it the same color if need be, plant where you want or replace the creature's drink, and watch as it gulps down a whole ****ing jug of pure poison or Mercury ( If brew/sauce/something has similar texture ) or God knows what without ever noticing it. Until he's dead, that is.
Profitable Blossoming: To a minor extent, "You instantly make a flower boom", and to a much greater extent, "You instantly make a leaf bud blossom" can be used to make gold with edible leaves such as cabbage or more expensively, difficult to grow cooking herbs by obtaining/purchasing the seeds and foregoing what would normally be the cost of watering, fertilizing and especially the massive amount of time needed, not to mention the risk factor of a poor season or drought, by simply blossoming all of their leaves instantly as soon as you have the buds. Can also lend your service to any farmers you pass by, "Hey sir, how about I make your entire cabbage field/herb garden all blossom instantly instead of you toiling for a few months and risking poor crops which didn't grow or bad weather and fertilization, for a small price?". With the expensive, exotic spicing herbs or flowers like Lotus, Anise and so forth which would normally be a huge pain in the ass to grow properly under the right climate, you could make a lot of gold by just blossoming their buds instantly. Not to mention also blooming various flowers used for perfumes, medicinal herbs, and so forth.