Uses for Minor Creation?

[TheGogmagog]

I must be missing something. D20SRD.org lists this as creating 1 square ft/ level of vegetable matter. I was thinking this was plant matter (which would at least allow for wood items) but apparently not. [Edit: Is wood a vegetable?, or more precisely are the wood like vegetables?]

So what is the spell good for? Morphing some dried fruit (change that dried veggies?) into a whole lot of dried veggies for a few hours? If hemp is a vegetable then you could do hemp rope or rope-ladders.

I've got to be missing something or just not thinking creatively enough. Pumpkin carriage a-la Cinderella?

Ok, let's have some fun at my expense. Assuming you are using the common definition of vegetables.... What can you make out of edible plant material?

 

[TheGogmagog]

From one source, we have it good for a source of fuel....

Vegetable Matter:
peat - partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water; can be used as a fuel when dried
coal - fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period

Thinking of how you can put veggies into water and make them sprout... I wonder if a non-living potato would be edible.

 

[mvincent]

vegetable matter. I was thinking this was plant matter (which would at least allow for wood items) but apparently not. [Edit: Is wood a vegitable?

Genius. Thank you.

(on the off chance that you're not joking):
Vegetable matter does indeed mean plant matter, including wood.

 

[TheGogmagog]

Must have rolled a 1 on my Intelligence check. Even after you answered it, I don't think I've heard the term applied to all plant matter. Probably one of those questions on 'Are you Smarter than a 5th grader' that 95% of the world has heard of.

I even checked Wikipedia, which had an even narrower definition as the edible part of the plant and the more narrow definitions. Looking over the entry it does mention half way down: "Vegetable is also used as a literary term for any plant: vegetable matter, vegetable kingdom. It comes from Latin vegetabilis (animated) and from vegetare (enliven)... The word vegetable was first recorded in print in English in the 14th century. The meaning of "plant grown for food" was not established until the 18th century."

 

[Slaved]

I must be missing something. D20SRD.org lists this as creating 1 square ft/ level of vegetable matter. I was thinking this was plant matter (which would at least allow for wood items) but apparently not. [Edit: Is wood a vegetable?, or more precisely are the wood like vegetables?]

So what is the spell good for? Morphing some dried fruit (change that dried veggies?) into a whole lot of dried veggies for a few hours? If hemp is a vegetable then you could do hemp rope or rope-ladders.

I've got to be missing something or just not thinking creatively enough. Pumpkin carriage a-la Cinderella?

Ok, let's have some fun at my expense. Assuming you are using the common definition of vegetables.... What can you make out of edible plant material?

This might be Helpful!!

http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=747757

 

[MarkB]

It's vegetable as in "Animal, mineral or vegetable". Any matter that isn't animal matter or mineral matter is vegetable matter.

 

[Hammerhead]

Black Lotus Extract. Pounds of it.