Post/Author/DateTime	Post
LGMoses 12-13-06, 01:48 PM	What all can you do with this spell? Anyone got any useful ways they use it?
kenobi65 12-13-06, 02:08 PM	It's not terribly useful in combat (at least, I've yet to come up with good uses there). I've seen it mostly used to clean up PCs after expeditions into sewers and the like, or before they have to go meet with nobles. It's also nice for making trail rations tastier. :)
copper_wyrmling 12-13-06, 02:09 PM	My sorcerer completely stopped an encounter with Prestidigitation in an intro mod :) The idea was that the goblin kids pelted us with scent-bombs, which then attracted a hippogriff. My fastidious little sorcerer derailed this sequence of events by prestidigitating the entire party just after the scent-bomb attack. You can use it for recoloring clothing: some GMs will give you a small circumstance bonus on Hide checks if you make your clothes the appropriate color for the surroundings (e.g. turning them white in snow). Mostly, though, I've seen it used for a lot of little mostly-roleplaying applications - keeping people dry in the rain, cleaning up after going through the sewers, turning annoying people's clothing bright pink, calming down rescued children by making little illusions for them, making trail rations taste and smell enticing for animals... that sort of thing.
LGMoses 12-13-06, 02:10 PM	I've used it to clean before. Had a DM who did the most description he'd ever done describing how horrible this basement room we'd just rented for extremely cheap was. Then we all cleaned it up real well with prestidigitation. :P We were planning on buying the room permanently from the keeper and making it into our stronghold. Yeah I didn't figure it'd be useful in combat. Might make glowing balls to impress people or scare them. I'm trying to make a magic focused half-elf bard.
Cardinal Teplin 12-13-06, 02:11 PM	A few... Personal hygiene. Doing the washing up Drying clothes Picking up spilled liquids and putting them back in the bottle. I used this for holy water that missed its target. I also used it to cover a Symbol with mud. Not visible = not effective. Making people look as if they've just come from a long journey can be handy. Dirtying a window so passers-by don't see what happens next. Entertaining local street urchins Proving you are a powerful wizard to people sufficiently primative that a robe and staff doesn't mean powerful arcane might, but merely a transvestite with a bad leg. Removing your own footprints - handy for prepping an ambush. And so on...
solbergb 12-13-06, 04:25 PM	Provide a little light when it's dark to read scrolls or whatever Clean filthy PC's or NPC's or surfaces Improving taste of food or covering up poison (for NPC's of course...) Using color to get +2 circumstance bonus to disguise checks. In one mod using it that way set off a trap designed to reveal shapeshifters, which was kinda funny. Entertain children Illustrate something you saw with small simple illusions/constructs without having to blow a silent image spell The most common use though? Keeping off the rain. Drying out if I don't hae sculpt spell. Sculpting "dry" in a 10' radius if I do. (Dry isn't precisely on the list of things, but most DM's seem to allow it since "clean" is on the list and it is kind of similar)
Morgen 12-13-06, 06:28 PM	I had one mod where we were racing into a burning building to rescue a gnome's familiar. So I used prestidigitation to help clean the air out around my head so I wasn't choking to death.
Maesto 12-13-06, 07:22 PM	The best use of prestidigitation is the 1 foot cube use. Because you can shape it into a fireball! Yay! Instant clean!
Shieldhart91 12-13-06, 10:27 PM	Most of the useful things of the spell have already been discussed above. I've seen in one module that I ran that the woman inspired cultists to believe she was spawned from the Nine Hells: made an illusion to surround herself with hellfire.
kenobi65 12-13-06, 10:39 PM	I've seen in one module that I ran that the woman inspired cultists to believe she was spawned from the Nine Hells: made an illusion to surround herself with hellfire. Arguably, that's too powerful an effect to come out of Prestidigitation, at least the current version. Finally, a prestidigitation lacks the power to duplicate any other spell effects. That effect sounds like at least the power level of silent image.
Shieldhart91 12-13-06, 10:49 PM	It wasn't actual Hellfire. Again, it was simply an illusion of hellfire.
kenobi65 12-13-06, 11:41 PM	It wasn't actual Hellfire. Again, it was simply an illusion of hellfire. I understood that from your original post...but even the illusion of hellfire is more powerful than a prestidigitation can create. Prestidigitation isn't powerful enough to replicate the effect of any other spell, and what you described is certainly more powerful than the power level of any other 0-level spell. That effect sounds more like somewhere between disguise self and silent image, both of which are 1st level spells.
clannagh 12-14-06, 12:39 AM	well if you are buying a character a few beers and dinner as part of a diplomacy (the proper rather than roll a D20 way) a bit of nicer tasting food can help get a ciircumstance bonus with a generous GM combined with ghost sounds it can also create a useful distraction
solbergb 12-14-06, 03:27 PM	Note that sculpted prestidigitation is still limited by the 10' range. You can make a bubble around you clean, dry, hot pink, whatever. But you can't do fireball-sized areas.