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edited 18th Sep '17 1:08:08 PM by Fighteer
The cantrip is Prestidigitation, and flavoring is just one of its many uses
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It's basically the lowest-level Utility Magic in D&D.
Milo Amastacia-Liadon finds it so useful that he prefers to call it "Least Wish".
Edited by wingedcatgirl on Mar 23rd 2020 at 12:42:30 PM
Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.Depending on your level of creativity, Prestidigitation is either practically useless or a swiss army knife.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I once earned a small fortune using Prestidigitation to clean a room in a dungeon that had been turned into a dire rat's nest. There was a mountain of treasure under all the filth I magicked away, and all of it went into my pockets while the rest of the party, who'd refused to wait 20 pretend minutes for me to ritual cast buff spells and ditched me, got their butts kicked by monsters.
That was a good day.
Can it do that? I don’t see any mention of fire in the spell description. Vaarsuvius researched a whole new cantrip called Flamefinger in On the Origin of PCs specifically for lighting small fires, and it had the limitation that the flame was attached to the caster’s finger (it was well named)—a magical cigarette lighter. A 0-level spell that could set fires from a distance seems too useful to be allowed.
That's from the 5e version
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Edited by wingedcatgirl on Mar 23rd 2020 at 6:59:45 AM
Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.Nope! It gets worse; Cantrips can be cast an unlimited amount of times in 5e. (Technically limited by the number of rounds you have in a day.)
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.5e's firebolt cantrip also specifies that it sets anything flammable that it hits on fire, the "control flames" cantrip lets the user do exactly what it say on the tin, and there's an entire cantrip, "bonfire," that creates a magical fire in a 5x5 ft space.
But this should probably move to the General D&D Thread
if it's going to continue.
I read the same thing. Also just woke up from a nap.

Was the deal never to bother Roy's whole family again or just his mom? I can't remember.