How do you use Prestidigitation ?

[Zappo]

It does all kind of everyday stuff, like making your soup more tasty, cleaning your clothes, cooling your drink, etcetera. It is also occasionally useful for the adventure - for example, recently a bunch of cultists that needed a sample of our blood to perform an unholy ritual attacked us by surprise, took a quick stab, and then fled. Two of us casted Prestidigitation, then we followed and used it to clean their blades from our blood. Pity one of them still escaped, but the idea was clever (it was mine, too ).

 

[tmaaas]

. . . to clean kobold snot from your robes.

 

[bret]

In games, I've used it to:

• Clean clothes just after getting into something really 'yucky'
• Dry clothes after getting dunked
• Heat some tea when we didn't have a lit fire
• Quickly light something on fire

The thing that makes it so attractive is versitility.

 

[Anabstercorian]

In games, I've used it to:

• Clean clothes just after getting into something really 'yucky'
• Dry clothes after getting dunked
• Heat some tea when we didn't have a lit fire
• Quickly light something on fire

The thing that makes it so attractive is versitility.

Absolutely. In a hostile dungeon environment, its ability to keep you hygeinic can save you from having to waste spell slots on Cure Disease, drying you off after a dunking can save you from hypothemia... Really, there's no end to the uses as a sort of survival tool.

 

[LGodamus]

There was a Dragon article back in the day all about how to use prestidigitation.....I think it was called the little wish. Aptly name since it can do just about anything not covered by the other 0 level spells and even cover some of them too, just not quite as well. If you can think of a very minor magic effect Presto. can probably accomplish it. It is my favorite spell bar none.

 

[Jeph]

It would be my favorite spell, if there were no Alter Self. As Presto is for 0 level spells, Alter is for 2nd level spells. Lets you breath under water, fly, change shape...

 

[Zappo]

Absolutely. In a hostile dungeon environment, its ability to keep you hygeinic can save you from having to waste spell slots on Cure Disease, drying you off after a dunking can save you from hypothemia... Really, there's no end to the uses as a sort of survival tool.

Yeah. However, a lot of DMs don't really go into such detail - hygiene, hypotermia... - unless they planned it in advance, and this is one of the reasons for which Prest would be a lot more useful IRL than it is in game.

Would you allow for Permanency on Prestidigitation?

 

[tarchon]

Camouflage, disguises, cleaning up messes. Once we lured a giant boar with the scent of a sow in heat. Good for drying clothes after you've gotten wet.

 

[Buttercup]

Making bits of wood and stones appear to be gold and silver coins just long enough to fool a would-be robber, the cleaning, drying and scenting that others have mentioned, swishing the dust and/or leaves around behind the party to hide their passage and so forth. It's really an amazing little spell.

And yeah, my players use it lots. The party sorcerer gets whiny when he or his companions are dirty or smelly. He's forever cleaning them up so his sensitive nose won't be traumatized. Even his cat gets offended by body odor.

 

[Halivar]

You can change the color of your shirt with it. If you only have one nice shirt, you can wear it everyday without anyone noticing.