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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 9031883" data-attributes="member: 20323">Tl;dr Maybe what you want is a homebrewed Shape Snow cantrip?Using layman's parlance, not scientific parlance, I was saying that if the snow was flowing (i.e. moving) then it could be shaped. So snow in a field? No, you're not able to use the cantrip like mold earth to dig yourself a snow shelter. That seems contrary to its design intent & expanding it to function like another cantrip also. BUT snow moving in a snow-drift that you triggered or during an avalanche? Yes, you could use shape water to steer some of that moving snow. That seems more in line with the cantrip's intent to me.Yes. Same same.Yes. For example, you could use shape water while trying to find an ally buried in the snow to "see through" a section of snow 5 feet deep to better find them. Or you could turn a 5 foot section of ice red like it had been stained by blood.Within the caveats already in shape water, yes. So if there's a creature in that snow? No.I agree, that would be outside the cantrips purview.One of my house rules is "creative upcasting", and if you wanted to upcast this cantrip using a low level spell slot, I think that's a reasonable and creative use for it.Those were what I was trying to avoid. The design of shape water is not meant to replicate mold earth. That said, if this is part of the cantrip you really want to explore... we could homebrew a cantrip. I'm noticing mold earth is also one of those "multiple bulletpoint effect" spells. I can imagine making a shape snow cantrip for your PC that tweaks the language a bit & swaps some bulletpoints and gets closer to what I think you're after.I think this would be similar to the de-densifying / deicing question you raised earlier. My answer would be the same: "No, but..." you could upcast it with a 1st level spell slot to get that effect."Yes, but..." the intent wouldn't be to replicate 2nd-level pass without trace and not even have to concentrate. That would be broken.What might work is something like "If you travel at 1/4 pace, stopping to use an action every 5 feet to obscure your tracks and tracks of up to 4 companions, you can increase the DC to track you and those 4 companions by 5." That seems more in line with the power of a cantrip, and reflects that this isn't flawlessly obscuring tracks like the 2nd level pass without trace. </blockquote>

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