Prestidigitation: What is it good for?
There are many great uses, but in the campain I play in it is house ruled. We ruled it so that any magic user with it on their spell list can cast it spontanisly(sp?). This way a 11th level wizard can cast does 3 fireballs and still be able to dry himself quickly when wet.
Uses
1. Dry the wizard after falling into a lake.
2. Clean oneself after getting something dirty.
3. Create a small light(candle)
Well these are my main uses, but there are tons of others that escape me at the moment.
Uses
1. Dry the wizard after falling into a lake.
2. Clean oneself after getting something dirty.
3. Create a small light(candle)
Well these are my main uses, but there are tons of others that escape me at the moment.
From Tome & Blood's article 'Fun with Prestidigitation':
Change - Transform an object of Fine size into another one.
e.g. Change a piece of paper into a rose.
Chill - Reduce an object's temperature by 40F (but not below freezing)
Clean - Self-explanatory
Color - Self-explanatory
Dampen - Self-explanatory
Dirty - Self-explanatory
Dry - Self-explanatory
Firefinger - Ignite combustile materials, can light a torch as a standard action (rather than a full-round), light campfires etc.
Flavor - Self-explanatory
Gather - Pick up e.g. coins from a selected area
Polish - Self-explanatory
Sketch - Self-explanatory. Very useful when trying to make artistic impressions of people when you have no ranks in Craft (painting)!
Stitch - Self-explanatory
Tie - Self-explanatory. Counts as taking 10 on Use Rope, but far quicker and can be done at distance.
Warm - Increase temperature of object by 40F, but not above 140F.
Presumably the reverse of these are also possible (e.g. Untie).
They are remarkably handy at low-levels. I remember once we had to infiltrate a bar which we thought was a front for a thieves' guild, so the party wizard got a job 'flavouring' the food (using Prestidigitation) for the customers. It enabled him to talk to the owners, and get plenty of gossip. Handy spell, if used intelligently.
Change - Transform an object of Fine size into another one.
e.g. Change a piece of paper into a rose.
Chill - Reduce an object's temperature by 40F (but not below freezing)
Clean - Self-explanatory
Color - Self-explanatory
Dampen - Self-explanatory
Dirty - Self-explanatory
Dry - Self-explanatory
Firefinger - Ignite combustile materials, can light a torch as a standard action (rather than a full-round), light campfires etc.
Flavor - Self-explanatory
Gather - Pick up e.g. coins from a selected area
Polish - Self-explanatory
Sketch - Self-explanatory. Very useful when trying to make artistic impressions of people when you have no ranks in Craft (painting)!
Stitch - Self-explanatory
Tie - Self-explanatory. Counts as taking 10 on Use Rope, but far quicker and can be done at distance.
Warm - Increase temperature of object by 40F, but not above 140F.
Presumably the reverse of these are also possible (e.g. Untie).
They are remarkably handy at low-levels. I remember once we had to infiltrate a bar which we thought was a front for a thieves' guild, so the party wizard got a job 'flavouring' the food (using Prestidigitation) for the customers. It enabled him to talk to the owners, and get plenty of gossip. Handy spell, if used intelligently.
Oni
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Not sure how useful but the most memorable use I've gotten out of prestidigitation was when one party member tricked another one into eating an extremely hot pepper. The one who was tricked lost his temper and not knowing who did it tried to force feed the thing to the tavern manager. Using a stilled, silenced prestidigitation my sorcerer made the pepper taste bland.
Well I guess thats not all that useful in a dungeon, I think in that kind of environment the only really helpful thing I've done with it was clearing a path up some treacherously slick, blood covered steps (they where edged on one side by quite a drop).
Well I guess thats not all that useful in a dungeon, I think in that kind of environment the only really helpful thing I've done with it was clearing a path up some treacherously slick, blood covered steps (they where edged on one side by quite a drop).
dreaded_beast
First Post
interesting uses. does anyone think it loses it flavor at higher level campaigns?
jerichothebard
First Post
Prestidigitation actually saved my character's life once. We were in a large dwarvin underground city, and (to make a long story short) I wound up seperated from the party. I used prestidigitation's 'color' application to leave (bright purple) directions for my party on where to come rescue me.
Rescue is, by the way, the correct word to use for that particular situation.
*sigh*
my gnome is reckless enough to qualify as an honorary halfling.
Rescue is, by the way, the correct word to use for that particular situation.
*sigh*
my gnome is reckless enough to qualify as an honorary halfling.
MarauderX
Explorer
For my bard, it's gonna have some uses in entertaining his way out of some situations soon. I think of it also as the 'pull the rabbit from the hat trick' to "teleport" an item out of sight, ie Willow.
It also makes you look super-cool when you can light your finger on fire to ignite something and then blow it out western-style while winking at the ladies...
I think it could also easily lend to a +2 circumstance bonus to diplomancy (that guy with the cool magic, I wish I was his friend!) or bluff ("I know you can't read the language, but this signature at the bottom is from the high elf Lotisymal")
The disappearing coin trick didn't work too well in stopping an inter-party fight (confusion) with the party fighter & cleric yesterday, but at least they both had a common dislike that brought them together - the new bard.
It also makes you look super-cool when you can light your finger on fire to ignite something and then blow it out western-style while winking at the ladies...
I think it could also easily lend to a +2 circumstance bonus to diplomancy (that guy with the cool magic, I wish I was his friend!) or bluff ("I know you can't read the language, but this signature at the bottom is from the high elf Lotisymal")
The disappearing coin trick didn't work too well in stopping an inter-party fight (confusion) with the party fighter & cleric yesterday, but at least they both had a common dislike that brought them together - the new bard.
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