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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 1645829" data-attributes="member: 259">Actually, evocations usually create energy from nothing; if you want to create matter, you need to be using a conjuration.  Look at fireball, evard's black tentacles (force tentacles), Otiluke's resilient sphere, and magic missile as other examples. My general rule is this: No Magic Bullets.  If a character tries to use a spell in a way that makes it significantly more powerful than normal, and this use can occur in a significant number of battles, then I tend to look very unfavorably on it.  No carrying around 1000 cubic feet of stone in a portable hole just so you can cast Animate Object on it to get, basically, a stone golem in every battle; I'm going to look very hard for a technicality on which to nix this spell usage.   Occasional Cool Effect rock.  If someone thinks of a unique way to apply a spell to the peculiar circumstances of the moment, I'm pretty happy.  If you want to use a burning hands to burn away the grease that an opponent just cast on the fighter's sword--well, that's great.  Or if you face an invisible opponent and want to use Gust of Wind to stir up a cloud of dust which will reveal the opponent's location, then I'm very likely to find a way to make that work. Overall, my goal is to encourage creative in-game uses of magic, but to discourage powergame solutions that get used over and over. Daniel</blockquote>