Can Presdigitation be used to produce a small flame ?

[Yig]

From the SRD:

Prestidigitations are minor tricks that novice spellcasters use for practice. Once cast, a prestidigitation spell enables you to perform simple magical effects for 1 hour. The effects are minor and have severe limitations. A prestidigitation can slowly lift 1 pound of material. It can color, clean, or soil items in a 1-foot cube each round. It can chill, warm, or flavor 1 pound of nonliving material. It cannot deal damage or affect the concentration of spellcasters. Prestidigitation can create small objects, but they look crude and artificial. The materials created by a prestidigitation spell are extremely fragile, and they cannot be used as tools, weapons, or spell components. Finally, a prestidigitation lacks the power to duplicate any other spell effects. Any actual change to an object (beyond just moving, cleaning, or soiling it) persists only 1 hour.

So basically, could a mage use that spell to create a little flame to light a cigar/pipe ?

 

[Rath the Brown]

So basically, could a mage use that spell to create a little flame to light a cigar/pipe ?[/color][/color]

Well, Tome and Blood gives several examples of things you can do with Prestidigitation, including having a small jet of flame shoot from a finger to start fires or light torches.

 

[DarkMaster]

From the SRD:



So basically, could a mage use that spell to create a little flame to light a cigar/pipe ?

I would say yes, it can heat matter so I don't see why it could not create a small flame that cannot causes damage(unless you use it to lit a torch or something else)

 

[Yig]

Cool.

This is really one of my favourite spell

 

[UltimaGabe]

Well, Tomb and Blood gives several examples of things you can do with Prestidigitation, including having a small jet of flame shoot from a finger to start fires or light torches.

Keep in mind, of course, that it's TOME and Blood, not TOMB and Blood. It's so named because Wizards get their magic from tomes, and Sorcerers get their magic from blood.

 

[Rath the Brown]

Keep in mind, of course, that it's TOME and Blood, not TOMB and Blood. It's so named because Wizards get their magic from tomes, and Sorcerers get their magic from blood.

Must have had Necromancers on the brain

 

[Calico_Jack73]

For the Prestidigitation spell I usually break out my old 1E Unearthed Arcana book and show my wizard players the list of Cantrips as examples of things they can do. Some of them were SO broken back then. I remember one, Exterminate, which would kill anything (no saving throw) that could fit in it's area of a small box (I think it was 6" x 6" but I am not sure). Normally it was meant to be used on rats and mice. SO, when the party got a higher in level and faced a dragon the mage cast Polymorph Other on the dragon and low and behold the dragon failed the save. The Mage turned the dragon into a snail and then promptly killed it with the Exterminate cantrip.

Good times, good times!