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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tglassy" data-source="post: 7840221" data-attributes="member: 6855204">Lol, I was just trying to figure out a way to make some money. We’re lvl 4 and I only have 100 gold. It’s why I brought it up here, instead of just trying to make something and saying “What? It’s in the rules!” The potential for cheese is astounding. Although, it is a 2nd lvl spell with a consumable spell component, whereas Alarm is a 1st lvl spell without one, so it should do more. It’s basically an upgraded Alarm Spell. It just...has few limitations. Like Prestidigitation. A creative player can do some crazy things with the ability to soil anything at any time. For example of something completely in the rules but very cheesy, there is no size limit to the object you can put the magic on. So if I got a string a mile long, I can make it so that “When someone says a long A sound into a cup at this end” as the trigger, and the effect is that a Mouth appears at the other end and simply says a long A sound. That way, saying that sound at one end makes it say the sound at the other end. Perfectly within the scope of the spell. Now get 26, give or take, such strings, and cast the same spell, but with different sounds for each one. Make one for every sound you could make. Anytime someone makes the corresponding sound on one end, the mouth makes the sound on the other. If you have every sound available, then you’d literally just talk in one end, and the combined strings would say the same thing on the other. The telephone has been invented, and it only cost the cost of a few mile long pieces of string and 10 gp per sound. Cover the strings in something durable, and you have a telephone line. Make a duplicate, only with the input and output at opposite ends, and you have unlimited two way communication. Combine it with Arcane Lock, and you have all kinds of shenanigans. But I digress. I’m not going to revolutionize technology with a 2nd level spell. And a full warning system for the whole town is much, much too costly. All I want it for is to be able to make earrings or amulets that detect when certain creatures are nearby, which is in the description of the spell itself. An early warning system, mainly for the night watchmen. It would be limited based on the amount of gold the town has to make such a thing, though. Although, I suppose I’m in charge of the town. That means I collect the taxes. And it means I have a say on how those taxes are spent. And I don’t think the town would object to my using the taxes to magically beef up security. Thoughts on that?</blockquote>

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