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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tglassy" data-source="post: 7040423" data-attributes="member: 6855204">Wonderful!   My favorite cantrip!The way I've always seen Shape Water is basically a low level water bending. You can levitate the water at a slowish speed, and make it shape itself however you want it to within a five foot cube. You cannot animate ice, but you can freeze or unfreeze it at any time. The entire thing must be frozen or unfrozen.l, you can't only freeze part of it. You can make it a vapor, and control that vapor, but you can only condense water vapor into water if the air is saturated with water. So, the conditions would have to be right. Ice expands. Cause physics. You do not, however, have control over the temperature of the water. You are instead using your will to force the water molecules to stop moving and become rigid, or to fly apart and become a gas.  Ice will still be cold, but not as cold as it should be, in that it doesn't actually draw heat from its surroundings (you could use it to make a drink cold or something flavorful like that).  Water vapor is no hotter than the water would be, which is room temperature, typically. I realize this is slightly contradictory, but in reality if you made water into vapor, it would be steam, and could scald, and this cantrip can't do that. As it is not ice due to temperature, but magic, flames won't melt it. If you don't actually let it melt, it'll stay that way for an hour. It can, however, crack and shatter like normal ice. Ice isn't hard. If you make ice bindings, the D.C. To break them won't be that high, depending on how thick you make it. I'm on the fence about pykrete. Look it up. If you abuse it, ill nix it, but it could be used to increase the strength of the ice somewhat. It'll make the ice harder to control, though, so no sharp weapons and the complexity of the shape would be lower.As for creating weapons, you can, but they're made of ice and fragile. Sharp weapons even more so. To get the ice thin enough to be sharp, it wouldn't even nick the skin, really. Blunt weapons would be better. Still takes an action to create, and I'll make you roll a d20 every hit to see if it shatters. Sent from my iPhone using <a href="http://r.tapatalk.com/byo?rid=93205" target="_blank">EN World mobile app</a></blockquote>

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