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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UltimaGabe" data-source="post: 1457617" data-attributes="member: 16019">Prestidigitation is one of the greatest roleplaying spells in the game- but it's worthless for anything else. It has little or no combat use, and really can't do anything that's game-breaking. You can use it to give your weapon a blue glow, or to lift up the dust around your character to make him look more intimidating, but you can't use it to cause damage, or really do anything to make any large difference. Depending on the situation, it could be used to give yourself a circumstance bonus to a skill check (such as making your eyes glow red to help your intimidate, or making food taste better for your craft: pudding skill). It has several uses that were mentioned in Tome & Blood that can replace mundane things (to an extent- such as, you can use it to light a torch, to take 10 on a use rope check, or so on). Unless otherwise noted, all of its uses take a Standard Action (the casting of the spell). So it would take a standard action to flavor something, to light a torch, to clean your shoes, or so on.And Mage Hand still has quite a use- Prestidigitation can only lift 1 pound of material, whereas the Mage Hand spell can lift up to 5 pounds. So you can move the fighter's disarmed sword back into his hands with Mage Hand, but you can't move more than small rocks or forks or things with Prestidigitation. Also, Mage Hand has a duration of Concentration, whereas Prestidigitation does not- so one could very easily rule that you can't do any sort of sustained lifting with Prestidigitation, whereas with Mage Hand you can hold it for as long as you want.</blockquote>

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