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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tglassy" data-source="post: 7040477" data-attributes="member: 6855204">Pykrete is ice laced with 14 percent sawdust.  It is incredibly strong, bulletproof at only an inch or two.  They've actually made boats out of it.  It just melts.  It melts slowly, but it melts.  You can get crazy with the stuff made from pykrete, which is why I'm on the fence about it.  it would probably be a more advanced use of the Shape Water Cantirp, something your character wouldn't be able to do at the beginning.No blood bending. At all.  It's mostly water, but it's not water.  So it wouldn't help with healing checks, either.  Yes, you can levitate the ice, but it's slower and more cumbersome than levitating water.  You wouldn't be able to throw it at someone, unless you grabbed it and threw it the old fashioned way.  Moving water is easier because water naturally flows.  Ice doesn't, so it 'feels' heavier.  As for simple shapes, I'm a little lenient with this.  Basically, it has to be all one piece, so no hinges or moveable parts.  No creating parts and putting them together to make something more complicated, like creating sockets and balls to fit them or anything like that.  No detail, like designs or anything like that.  If you made the shape of a hand, it wouldn't have any fingers.  If you made a face, it wouldn't have any features (no eyes, mouth, ears or anything, and the hair would be all one lump).  Basically, shaping the water requires mental strength.  Creating a sphere is easiest.  It's the most energy efficient form.  A simple square is also fairly easy, but requires a little more mental gymnastics to make sure it's equal on every side.  Stretching one side and putting an indention in the other to make a bowl is much harder, as you're doing many things at once.  Holding a sheet of water together long enough to freeze it in place is fairly easy.  Raising the sides high enough and making it the right shape to flow through water is another thing entirely.  The more familiar you are with the shape, the easier it is, but that doesn't mean it's 'easy'.  Moving water is easier than shaping it, so when creating a club, you could move the water through the air real fast, elongating it, and then freezing it in place and grabbing it, instead of trying to make the water shape itself into a club.  I suppose an artist who spent their entire lives working with the Shape Water Cantrip could do amazing things with it, due to their familiarity with the magic, and the medium they are working with (water and ice).  But someone at level 0 can do simple things.  At higher levels, if he studies with the cantrip, you can ask for more and more complicated uses, and I'll see if you're progressed far enough.</blockquote>

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