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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7643920" data-attributes="member: 6704184">Command is just as powerful, in the same way. "Confess." Mold Earth is an even bigger deal, since it's a cantrip, and can create irrigation with vastly less workforce than has been required IRL. Also, just Detect Poison and Disease would revolutionize medicine in ways that would reach far beyond those people who can use magic. Creating water from nothing, in the hands of someone who is being paid to just do that as many times a day as they can, every day, for a year, is world changing. 1st level spell, 10 gallons of water per casting is thousands of gallons a year from one person. A druid who can cast Plant Growth can also use Create or Destroy Water and Mold Earth to impact the irrigation beyond that 1 year of doubled crop yield. Remember that while a modern American can use dozens of gallons of water a day even while trying to conserve, a pre-modern family will probably use less than that 10 gallons per day. If you're looking at a dry year, rather than a nearly waterless place, creating better irrigation and water storage, and supplementing the water supply, can save a community just as much as increased crop yield. But let's get weird! Purify Food And Drink. What is "drink"? Is a well full of soiled water "drink"? Can you filter out the physical matter from soiled water, and then Purify that water in 10 ft diameter spheres? Can you use Mold Earth to make an estuary river from the coastline to fill small pools that can then be purified into potable water? Does the spell make food waste no longer a concern? Does such a world even still have the phrase "A few bad apples spoil the bunch"? Apples can be stored for over a year in the real world, using no modern technology. What if 1 spell casting per year makes them last forever? What about meat? What impact does "Detect Poison and Disease" have on managing livestock? What sorts of injuries are simply cured by cure wounds? How many livestock animals have to be put down because of relatively simple injuries and diseases, not to mention mysteriously dying because they ate the wrong thing, which the spell would identify. Protection From Poison is 2nd level, but Bless gives a bonus on saving throws, which combined with an informed use of veterinarian medicine will dramatically increase the survival rate of humans and animals.</blockquote>

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