Cool uses for Prestidigitation

[whatisitgoodfor]

IMC, there is a sorceror that uses Pres to give opponents a "Penguin" whenever he doesn't have anything better to do.

A penguin, of course, is dropping someone's pants around their ankles so that they waddle around.

So far, every opponent has passed the Reflex save to resist it, but one of these days...

 

[Moon_Goddess]

I've used it well in D&D stories, though not in game yet. A bard and a Cleric of Pelor had been captured by barbaric kobolds the bard had planned on catching and eating. They had been tied to spits and held above huge firey pits. The cleric got off the spit, but he was surrounded by Kobolds. The suffering bard, cast prestidigitation to make howling noises in the trees. While the Kobolds looked around for the source, the Cleric cast light on himself (I dont remember there being a rule against it) and succeeded in freaking the little pests out by pretending to be a powerful god.

Ok, that's just pathetic, where's B.A.D.K. bothered about disposable kobolds. Kobolds are of adverage intelligence, they aren't idiots. Creatures with INT 10 don't fall for stupid tricks like that. Kobolds are already weak enough to be cannon fodder, why underplay them!!!!

 

[Jack Haggerty]

Ok, that's just pathetic, where's B.A.D.K. bothered about disposable kobolds. Kobolds are of adverage intelligence, they aren't idiots. Creatures with INT 10 don't fall for stupid tricks like that. Kobolds are already weak enough to be cannon fodder, why underplay them!!!!

Not to mention, he's trying to replicate a Ghost Sound spell with Prestidigitation by using it in this manner.

 

[Chronosome]

One great idea in my games has been personal grooming
via prestidigitation. Haircuts, baths, and fresh breath through
the convienience of arcane sorcery!

Other than that...hmmm...

My gnome character Squint Mudlunk likes to make things
taste like steak. It wasn't a good idea to try it on himself
and tease the druid's wolverine campanion, though...

 

[Nareau]

I had a bard who used Prestidigitation a lot

He'd cast it on his armor when selling it, to make it extra shiny. He'd make his teeth sparkle when smiling. He'd use it in his performances (he was a beatnik) to suppliment them with sounds, lights, etc.

 

[Moe Ronalds]

Ok, that's just pathetic, where's B.A.D.K. bothered about disposable kobolds. Kobolds are of adverage intelligence, they aren't idiots. Creatures with INT 10 don't fall for stupid tricks like that. Kobolds are already weak enough to be cannon fodder, why underplay them!!!!

Yeah but these Kobolds weren't typical. They had grown and prospered far away from normal Kobolds, in a powerful forest full of dark energy. They didn't even know how to speak Draconic, but instead spoke in a strange language they had made up. Their cheif was the only one whose intgelligence would have been higher than 4. And after all of his people had run away in fright, he didn't want to have to deal with someone who had, while in a fiery pit, managed to kill several Kobolds and use their carcasses as weapons, even if that person was mortal.