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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Baldurs_Underdark" data-source="post: 8810918" data-attributes="member: 6880355">So, every 6 seconds you can warm or chill a cubic foot of material. That's 10 cubic foot per minute and 600 cubic foot per hour. That is 17 m3 of material. If that's water, that is 17 tons per hour (4.7 kg/s). Assume you can heat that by 10 degrees Celsius. Using the specific heat of water of (about) 4200 J/kgK, the power is 4.7*4200*10 = 197 kW. That is the equivalent of 100 kettles that you may have in your kitchen. Note that this assumed you heat it by a mere 10 degrees Celsius. If that's 20 degrees, it doubles. That's pretty spectacular from an engineering/physics point of view.So, the key question here is: how much power (literally heating power) does a cantrip have? I'd rule that this can only be used for flavoring, and not for solving actual quests, challenges or puzzles. Also, I would put restrictions on the heating; i.e. you cannot heat the same cubic foot more than once per day (to avoid abuse).</blockquote>