Creative Use of Low-level Magic.

[Loincloth of Armour]

Once, when an animal was using the 'grapple' effect to hold a character in its mouth (getting set up for a swallow whole), I cast prestidigitation on the character to make him 'taste bad.'

Animal failed its save and *PETTEW!* spat the character out.

 

[Hypersmurf]

It has also been used to pass a ring of feather falling back up a cliff to facilitate the party climbing down...

Did you cunningly make use of a non-magical piece of string in order to circumvent the non-magical-item-only restriction of Mage Hand? Or did you forget about it?

-Hyp.

 

[shilsen]

Did you cunningly make use of a non-magical piece of string in order to circumvent the non-magical-item-only restriction of Mage Hand? Or did you forget about it?

-Hyp.

Damn! Beat me to it!

 

[Ferrum]

I've used Dancing Lights in concert with Intimidate checks to scare away attackers, less they be destroyed by my "Spectral Guard". I imagine a bluff check could also work.

 

[RichCsigs]

I love grease.

Grease plus Gust of Wind makes for some fun times. Especially if the bad guy(s) are near a cliff.

This is a fun one for a DM. Set up an ambush in a good sized field. Put all/some of your archers and spell casters inside a Leomund's Tiny Hut and have a group of melee people outside to stop the party from walking in right away. I've used that a couple of times, lots of fun.

 

[Mouseferatu]

To date, I'm the only person I know to have used knock offensively.

Specifically, I was standing on the field as a mounted knight charged at me (from a pretty good distance). Since I had the opportunity to cast before he got there, but I was out of most of my combat spells, I wound up casting knock on the main clasp on the saddle's cinch, causing the rider (after a difficult Ride check) to topple from the horse.

(Yes, I know that it's possible to interpret the text of knock to both allow this usage and to disallow it. I thought it was pretty clever, though, and the DM agreed, so we went with it.)

 

[GrumpyOldMan]

OD&D/AD&D Magic Mouth was an extremely useful spell for me (It was IIRC a first level spell), I think it’s second now. My wizards staff was enchanted to say, ‘put me down’ if anyone other than the wizard himself tried ti pich it up. I used downtime to enchant several pebbles to say ‘Charge - let’s get them – come on guys, etc.’ when they landed having been thrown. In big battles, after I’d run out of spells, I’d chuck one or two over the melee, to land behind the attackers. A simple little misdirection and distraction for our opponents.

 

[Warren Okuma]

Prestidigitation. Make iron rations taste good, heat leftovers, clean yourself, theme music, levitate small objects to you, make your hands or eyes glow, draw glowing runes in the air.

Also I used unseen servant to open that chest without a monster. It was trapped.

I used knock on some critters that was piloting some sort of weird golems. The pilots were 1 HD. The golems bout 10 HD I recon. Lots of money sold.

Feather fall (ADnD I think) on a statue and threw it off a cliff to get it to market.

Mending to well... mend.

 

[theemrys]

Unseen Servant for creating minor distractions during a battle or for doing things like dropping alchemist's fire on enemies as they come through a door.

Nothing like an unseen servant closing a door during melee to split the enemy. Also lots of fun to convince opponents that things are haunted.

One time back in 2nd ed the party came upon a random encounter on the road. The situation was that a minor illusionist was ambushing travelers by using ESP to find out what scared them the most and making an illusion of to have them flee and hopefully leave their goods behind (wagons and such). It couldn't have worked out better as a DM. As they were traveling up the road, I told them that they hear something just over the next rise. One of the players looks at me and says "It's not that #($%)# Pit Fiend again, is it?". (They had previously encountered and barely escaped from a pit fiend in previous adventures). I just smiled and said "Yes.. that's exactly what you see". The illusionist got a nice wagon full of adventuring supplies that was left behind...

 

[Merkuri]

I don't know how creative this really was, but I once used silent image to make an image of a cave wall that the party could hide behind and ambush some wyverns we were trying to kill.

A couple sessions ago the party was riding on a moving carriage, being attacked by mounted bandits. We managed to take out half of them by casting grease on the ground in front of the bandits on one side of the carriage. When you're moving at 120 feet a round grease can do a lot of damage.

And my bf, Awayfarer, has some very creative uses for prestidigitation (his favorite spell) but I'll let him tell those.