D&D 5E Thaumaturgy Cantrip.

[gyor]

I trying to think of practical uses for Thaumaturgy.

So far I've come up with...

1. Using it to cause a distracting sound to draw someone away, like scream that draws the guards away.

2. Amplifying ones voice for a performance, like singing in a Tavern, or a Serumon to the faithful.

3. Creeping people out.

4. Intimatation, yelling at someone with an amped up voice, with black eyes with burning flames for pupils, and the ground trembling, is pretty intimadating.

5. When fleeing, shutting doors behind you to deter those chasing you.

6. Ambushing someone, dim thier campfire and turn its colour black before attacking.

7. Pranks, a loud fart sound appears to come from the Princess.

8. Displaying you faith by showing you holy symbol in your eyes.

Really Thaumaturgy doesn't seem to have much use beyond screwing with people and Performances. Especially screwing with people. Can anyone come up with any more practical uses for Thaumaturgy Cantrip?

 

[evilbob]

This was one of the most useful (new) spells I've seen in a long time!

Basically, think: how to win someone over to your religion. Suddenly thunder crashes, the ground shakes, and your voice booms from around the room! If that doesn't get someone's attention, what will? You could fake signs from a god all day long.

Also a big hit in theater performances.

If you really need something practical, it also opens/shuts doors and windows from across the room. There are ways that can be useful.

 

[mach1.9pants]

Personally I find thinking of uses in isolation hard, but in a given scenario I know there are a lot of uses for something so open ended. Makes it fun for DM and players

 

[gyor]

Use 9. P*ssing off the neibours when your having sex. Just inagine the sounds coming from the Tiefling in the apartment jext store whose getting some and the sex noises are amplified by 3 times as loud and you've got an earily meeting the next day.

 

[the Jester]

Use 9. P*ssing off the neibours when your having sex. Just inagine the sounds coming from the Tiefling in the apartment jext store whose getting some and the sex noises are amplified by 3 times as loud and you've got an earily meeting the next day.

Lolololololol.....

 

[Sacrosanct]

Last year during one of the earlier playtest packets, this spell saved the party's life. We were playing Blingdingstone and had just battled a group of orcs. We beat them, but we were all hurt (some pretty badly), and I was out of healing spells (I was a dwarven cleric). So who comes running around a corner about 50 yards away? Another group of orcs. So what did I do?

I strode forward among the bodies of the slain orcs, slammed my war hammer on the ground, causing it to tremble with the spell, and shouted out in orcish "Fun ain't over yet boys! Here comes some more practice!" The DM ruled that with that use of spell, along with my persuasion skill, gave me advantage and a bonus to my check. the orcs skidded to a stop and fled the other way.

To which I turned to my party and said more quietly, "Now run you fools before they catch on!"

 

[Savage Wombat]

Convincing the Halfling to stop screwing around and put the One Ring in the envelope already.

 

[gyor]

Yeah it really depends on if the DM allows it to influence skill checks. If so its useful, if not its basically just fluff, and of no real use. If it can be used that way it steps on the toes of the Guidance Cantrip.

But that's also true of Presidgatation and Druidcraft. These Cantrips seem RP focused, with little mechanical meat to them.

 

[gyor]

The door one seems like it could be useful beyond skill checks with a generious DM.

10. Your all tied up and wiggling towards the door they forgot to unlock, so you cast Thaumaturgy fo open it and escape.

11. A drawbridge is a type of door, cast Thaumaturgy to shut it while enemy troops are running across it.

12. Whisper a quick message to someone without anyone noticing.

13. B&E, your scaling the walls of a castle and you use Thaumaturgy to open the window you plan on using to enter the castle before you get thier.

14. You just committed a crime and you don't want to leave finger prints on the door handle so you open it with Thaumaturgy.

15. Back Massage, you lay on the ground and cause the ground to tremble.

Side not Thaumaturgy is a Transmutation spell with only a verbal compenent.

So no Material Compenents needed, no holy symbol as focus needed, no geastures needed. A quick prayer or possibly curse in the case of a Tiefling and there you go.

The fact its Transmutation isn't of much use.

Interestingly Thaumaturgy for Clerics uses Wisdom as its stat, if that every comes up, but Tieflings use Charisma instead.

 

[Dungeoneer]

In a memorable event in a Gamma World one-shot, one of my players randomly acquired the ability to imitate sounds. Facing a bunker full of heavily armed Badders, he decided to imitate a badger in heat. An improbably successful skill check later, he had cleared out half the guards.

So, add "badger mating calls" to the list of use cases.