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<blockquote data-quote="Gadget" data-source="post: 6770666" data-attributes="member: 23716">I'm not sure which cantrip allows you to get around 'picking a lock', unless you just mean to pew, pew the door down, which does take time and causes a certain amount of damage and noise, not to mention can cause a fire, etc.&nbsp; I'm also not sure what cantrip can 'cook a meal'; flavor one, yes, but not cook one.&nbsp; As for cooling down an overheating room, there may be one in the Elemental player's supplement, but Ray of Frost (if that is the cantrip you're thinking of) does not 'create ice' but merely a blue-white ray that does cold damage to a 'creature' in range.&nbsp; It would be perfectly valid to rule that it does nothing to non creature objects it hits.&nbsp; As for shocking grasp and lightbulbs, that is a shockingly <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> convoluted use of the cantrip, especially when one can use the light cantrip to better effect.&nbsp; But the light cantrip does make your point (along with dancing lights).&nbsp; Continually casting fire bolt also seems like a poor substitute for the aforementioned cantrips, not to mention causing potentially unintended side affects like collateral damage and starting fires.&nbsp; I would also think the limited range and area of poison spray might make getting rid of rats a bit trickier than it seems, as the little buggers don't often present themselves in the open, but point taken.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gadget, post: 6770666, member: 23716"] I'm not sure which cantrip allows you to get around 'picking a lock', unless you just mean to pew, pew the door down, which does take time and causes a certain amount of damage and noise, not to mention can cause a fire, etc. I'm also not sure what cantrip can 'cook a meal'; flavor one, yes, but not cook one. As for cooling down an overheating room, there may be one in the Elemental player's supplement, but [B]Ray of Frost[/B] (if that is the cantrip you're thinking of) does not 'create ice' but merely a blue-white ray that does cold damage to a 'creature' in range. It would be perfectly valid to rule that it does nothing to non creature objects it hits. As for [I]shocking grasp[/I] and lightbulbs, that is a shockingly :cool: convoluted use of the cantrip, especially when one can use the [I]light[/I] cantrip to better effect. But the [I]light[/I] cantrip does make your point (along with [I]dancing lights[/I]). Continually casting fire bolt also seems like a poor substitute for the aforementioned cantrips, not to mention causing potentially unintended side affects like collateral damage and starting fires. I would also think the limited range and area of [I]poison spray[/I] might make getting rid of rats a bit trickier than it seems, as the little buggers don't often present themselves in the open, but point taken. [/QUOTE]

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