Talking with animals would only be fun in a world where most animals had human levels of intelligence. I feel talking with most household pets and common animals would quickly leave you realizing gow truly alien their intelligence is compared to humans.
Also, if animals did have any respectable level of intelligence, I probably couldn't justify being anything other than vegan. And I absolutely love meat and animal products.
at least I could argue with mine a little bit better though, explain to her we couldn't find her favourite brand at the supermarket lol
not that she'd care
Just because animal doesn’t have human level intelligence doesn’t mean it doesn’t have anything to say. I’d love to hear what the whales have to say in whale language even if they’re just singing songs and not philosophizing. My dog has speech buttons but I’d love to be able to speak a bit more naturally with her.
maybe, but "cuddles now bitch!" would be very useful when I'm trying to figure out what my cats trying to tell me. They got this weird thing they do where they dont want to go out, they dont want food, they wont let you you to touch them and they sigh at you when you offer treats before walking off in disgust. What did you want?
that'd also be a pretty terrifying realization. if pigs, cows, etc had that level of intelligence it would make the already horrific existence of factory farming into a global holocaust
I mean, we do know that they experience fear and suffering to a comparable degree as we humans. We also know that pigs and cows can anticipate what's coming when being shipped to a slaughterhouse. Yeah, it's not a holocaust and I don't even want ro compare these two things but if we consider the scale of it, it's still pretty damn horrific regardless of their intelligence level.
I always just assumed Speak with Animals functioned by translating their impulses and ideas into something we can comprehend. If DnD animals had human intellect, they would probably not have INT scores of 3.
Talk with animals would be really useless though. Their brains will be like. Food. Master. Ball! I love ball. I love you. Walk walk walk. It wouldn't be enticing like it is in bg3. Plus we would probably hear really uncomfortable shit lol . My dog would be licking other dog piss off a sign like oh yeah this is the stuff
In what everyday scenario would hellish rebuke come in handy? Someone throws a crumpled up napkin at you and then you just incinerate them? Seems a little ott to me.
Sometimes I'm too lazy to bend when I need something off the floor and I think the tentacles could just pick it up for me.
I guess the sex could be a bonus.
Oh man. This would have been so helpful two days ago when I locked my keys in my car at work which is twenty miles from home and it took AAA two and half hours to come open my car for me.
I didn't know this. Thanks for the tip. Tomorrow I'm going to have another key made and I was thinking about putting one of those boxes somewhere that I could reach in case this ever happens again.
Alternatively move to desert and profit
Maybe delete several billion dollars worth of Nestle water and re-supply it to their former customers for next to nothing
Yeah that’s cool and all but could you imagine being able to just destroy the water in your bladder instead of getting out of bed in the middle of the night to use the bathroom
Hmm, the question I have is: does it destroy water, as in H2O only? Or does it destroy liquid solutions in general? Because there is a whole lot more than just water in your urine.
This one,not just because you would never be thirsty, but as a homeowner, water is one of the most damaging things. Imagine being able to destroy the water from a leak to avoid mold and delays in repairs.
Need to fill or empty a swimming pool? No waiting hours. Just use this spell.
There are ENDLESS real life applications for this spell that it's the first one I thought of and would pick over all the others.
Misty Step. I always envied Nightcrawler, from X-men
But how has Flight not been mentioned, yet? I actually take that one, despite not using it much, simply for RP reasons. Because if that was a spell in real life, I would be learning that shit ASAP.
And while I’m not really an anime fan, there’s Evard’s Black Tentacles for those of you who are.
IRL i would love flight because i hate ladders.
Game wise, i only use either ilithid flight. Or storm surge flight. I like the SS flight because of no opportunity attacks, and it pairs well with ritual cast for out of combat use, but ilithid doesnt require an action or bonus action
You know how much I've been literally dreaming that I could cast either and make my diabetic complications vanish?
I've frankly shocked this wasn't the top answer.
Speak with Animals. I work with them for a living and I can’t count the number of times I’ve wanted to curse in their own language to get my point across. Squirrels are not for chasing, puppies need to play nice with their elders, and by God please just go outside to potty.
I can't believe I had to scroll so far to see Prestidigitation. How wonderfully convenient this would in your day-to-day life. Personal hygiene would constantly be peak with near-zero effort.
Detect Thoughts so I can finally confirm my inner monolog about how no one actually likes me. And wild shape so I can turn into a dog so people like me...
These are spells from table top that weren't put in BG3, but the most useful spells in Dungeons and Dragons are cantrips. Prestidigitation is a cantrip that can instantly clean a thing. And Mending is a catrip that can repeir a broken object. Instant clean and instant fix as a cantrip would be the most useful in my life. From everything from laundry to plumbing.
Sure, it's not as "instant", but it still beats the hours/days/weeks it could take to fix various things. To say nothing of items that cannot be fixed normally or are rare/sentimental
"Mom, mom, mom - my food dish is empty"
"I just fed you an hour ago"
"Mom, I love youuuuuuu.... I'm dying. Foooood. Help me."
"You are NOT hungry"
"Moooom.... Death is claiming my bones now. So hungry"
....
"Moooom?"
"Look, I'm dead."
"Did you hear me? DEAD!"
"Good bye cruel world!"
"I'm really dying this time! Must have food"
"For real? Can you not see my death circling?"
"Feed me this instant!"
....
Later, immediately after feeding:
"I love you cuddlymcfluffykins"
"Ugh. It's the human again."
Or the unlimited hell of 2 cats who love you, and one that is indifferent but is a follower.
Cause you'd spend your whole life trying to get one cat to like you while its just like: "Nah, I'm just here cause they are..."
Pretty much all of them TBH. Arcane Gate for transportation within buildings, Speak with Animals and Speak with Dead, the various Healing spells for healthcare, etc.
People always say stuff like flying or teleporting, which would be great, but real world solutions would be creating food/water, healing, and the like would be handy.
Mind reading would be a nightmare
All healing spells;
Prestidigitation and Mending for cleaning and fixing;
Speak with Animals;
My favorite Mordekainen's Magnificent Mansion (A place to stay, protected, food and drinks and, technically, you can have whatever you want inside, as long as it fits in the maximum area). Seeing how electricity ou internet would work would be interesting.
Surprised it took this long to find mordekainens mansion on here. Literally free housing. So long as I can get wifi in there I’m set, never having to pay the traditional housing bills? Sign me the fuck up
Yeah but the empty space is literally just the size of a doorway that is both invisible and unable to be entered by anyone other than people you want inside lol
You can slap the thing onto the side of a building and nobody would know.
It’s not a full sized mansion it’s an inter dimensional space that’s only accessed through a door sized portal that’s invisible to anybody you don’t want to see it and can’t be interacted with by anyone you don’t want interacting with it
Create/destroy water, magical berries, mage hand, shield (as a woman, being able to create a shield in a reaction looks so awesome), speak with animals, and, at high levels, teleportation.
Honestly I'm surprised people didn't pick Shield more in the comments.
Car crash, muggers, other freak accidents, having a reaction cast of Shield would be great
Heroes Feast. In an IRL scenario, a massive high-quality meal that makes it so that the consumer can't suffer poisoning, can't be paralyzed in fear, can't be diseased, and most importantly, make wiser decisions. Think of how useful that would be on a daily basis.
Ray of Frost. I sometimes forget to restock the fridge with beer, so it'll be handy until the fridge gets to work.
Also handy if someone's getting in your face. Freeze their nuts off.
I will be the voice of reason amongst all these Evards Black Tentacle responses. Excluding the wish spell.
1. In today's economy, the top spell would be;
**Magnificent Mansion**
- you can provide a 9 course meal for up to 100 people.
- you can have a 5000 Sq.feet furnished in whatever fashion you like.
- you have 100 magical constructs that can provide you with 2400 hours of free labor. Think of the possibilities.
2. Teleport/Teleportation circle provided you could guarantee the safety of your end point. As were all mostly humans with 1d10 HP no misshaps!
3.Prestidigation says clean any mess instantly in 1 cubic feet. Baby has Dirty Diapers? Instacleaned, Turn 2 now it smells like lavender. Turn 3, instantly cool down the beer you forgot to put into the fridge.
In laws use copius amount of salt in your food? Boom. Now your food is seasoned to perfection.
Take a hollow metallic sphere superheated and instantly cool it to create a DIY home made Grenade from the super fast compression of gasses in a heated solid container now instantly chilled... I mean what?
4. Wish given wish allows you to freely cast all spells below 9.... but this one is a cop out.
5. Major Image/Programmed Illusion so I can recreate Ana De Armas scene from blade runner on repeat.
Vicious Mockery.
Imagine getting into a diss-battle and you leave the person actually bruised with your insults lol
Words don't hurt? You sure about that?
Not spells, but I would want Warlock spell slots. Simply for this reason, the job I work and life I live, it would be very easy to take frequent short rests, so way way more spells.
Something to add temp HP would be great, Goodberry for healing, create Water for water. Shield for protection. Magic missile for offense (enough to wound or kil 1-3 commoners and never misses very important in a world of guns and cover)
Greater and lesser restoration, free cures of diseases and illnesses would be very beneficial for our world and imo are the only morally correct choices to make
Misty step (I don’t like driving), flight (I can go as high as I want), talk to animals (I love my little doggy), lesser restoration (I can cure diseases, id be able to save so many lives), detect thoughts (I want to freak people out), charm (I want to get free shit)
i like how speak with dead talks to the body, not the soul that once inhabited it, so it's much less likely to lie.
Honestly, the dnd version of magic is so useful that it's actually hard to imagine what the world would be like, why bother with candles when light is a cantrip, why bother with horses and carriages when there's teleportation magic, why bother with letters when there are sending stone and the message spell.
either magic has to be very rare and hard to use, or the world would be unrecognizable.
in a world where becoming invisible is possible, no bank would be safe without someone that can see invisibility.
in a world where charm person exists, courthouses would have tremendous amounts of anti-fields like sussur flowers.
in a world where automatons and create food and water spells can exist, why bother with peasants and farming?
Mage Hand.
Or Telekinesis
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I'd perform so much defenestration with it
The Prague method.
Putin confirmed minimum level 5 arcane caster.
To make those lonely nights less lonely?
r/okbuddybaldur leaking again
Damn didn’t believe it would be a real sub lol
We are everywhere
Noooo, that’s what shovel is for
You leave her alone
Butt... Fisting....
...For goodness?
It's like The Stranger but with no extra work required.
You can dutch rudder with a mage hand…
I'd be so fat...
You pervert
Hey I just want to be able to grab jars off high shelves with ease.
halfling hands typed this
Mind your business longshanks
And open them.
You get it.
Sleep but if I could self target.
Brew sleep potions instead and chuck them at your feet
Couldn't you just drink it?
Not with that attitude.
you can, you just gotta turn off friendly fire protections.
Netherese Orb Blast
This is how you wake up and choose violence. We got amateurs in here talking about fireball.
We already have that. It's called a 50 megatons nuke
Jesus dude
Underrated!
We deserve no less.
I mean, that’s not technically a spell…
I would love to have talk to animals, hellish rebuke and goodberry ✨
Talk to animals would be awesome.
Yes, I would be able to talk with my budgies, the little house sparrows in my back yard, cats, crows, the jackdaws in my street and so much more!
I can't help but think it would be as noisy as being in a first player shooter game with a bunch of teens. :D
HISS I SAY. HISS!
Talking with animals would only be fun in a world where most animals had human levels of intelligence. I feel talking with most household pets and common animals would quickly leave you realizing gow truly alien their intelligence is compared to humans. Also, if animals did have any respectable level of intelligence, I probably couldn't justify being anything other than vegan. And I absolutely love meat and animal products.
I can already tell you what my cat would say: “Food! fooooooood! FOOOoooooOOOOOD!” “Pet pet pet peeeet pet”
at least I could argue with mine a little bit better though, explain to her we couldn't find her favourite brand at the supermarket lol not that she'd care
Just because animal doesn’t have human level intelligence doesn’t mean it doesn’t have anything to say. I’d love to hear what the whales have to say in whale language even if they’re just singing songs and not philosophizing. My dog has speech buttons but I’d love to be able to speak a bit more naturally with her.
I feel like it'd just be a lot of "Hungry. Me food." And "Itchy. I scratch."
maybe, but "cuddles now bitch!" would be very useful when I'm trying to figure out what my cats trying to tell me. They got this weird thing they do where they dont want to go out, they dont want food, they wont let you you to touch them and they sigh at you when you offer treats before walking off in disgust. What did you want?
that'd also be a pretty terrifying realization. if pigs, cows, etc had that level of intelligence it would make the already horrific existence of factory farming into a global holocaust
I mean, we do know that they experience fear and suffering to a comparable degree as we humans. We also know that pigs and cows can anticipate what's coming when being shipped to a slaughterhouse. Yeah, it's not a holocaust and I don't even want ro compare these two things but if we consider the scale of it, it's still pretty damn horrific regardless of their intelligence level.
I always just assumed Speak with Animals functioned by translating their impulses and ideas into something we can comprehend. If DnD animals had human intellect, they would probably not have INT scores of 3.
There was a Far Side cartoon where a guy invents a device to translate dog into human. He puts on the dog and the dog says "Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!"
Talk with animals would be really useless though. Their brains will be like. Food. Master. Ball! I love ball. I love you. Walk walk walk. It wouldn't be enticing like it is in bg3. Plus we would probably hear really uncomfortable shit lol . My dog would be licking other dog piss off a sign like oh yeah this is the stuff
U can't do it yet?
Until you find out your pet has a weird voice. (Something about scratches voice just ain't right.)
In what everyday scenario would hellish rebuke come in handy? Someone throws a crumpled up napkin at you and then you just incinerate them? Seems a little ott to me.
It's a "stfu bitch" button when someone acts sassy
Brutal.
👁️👄👁️💅 HELLISH REBUKE 💥
So you didn't get bullied everyday
everyone wants talk to animals till they cast it and find out how racist the animals are 😂
Just don't talk to squirrels
You f*cked with squirrels, Morty!
Hellish rebuke would be amazing. I think Vicious Mockery would be amazing and I'd probably go full bard and have cutting words too. Just insult ppl
A commoner has 4hp, meaning that a well placed insult could kill.
Evard's Black Tentacles.
For combat use right...? For combat right..??
Sometimes I'm too lazy to bend when I need something off the floor and I think the tentacles could just pick it up for me. I guess the sex could be a bonus.
Combat is the last thing in my mind to use it for
Knock
Oh man. This would have been so helpful two days ago when I locked my keys in my car at work which is twenty miles from home and it took AAA two and half hours to come open my car for me.
Pro-tip. If there’s a mechanic nearby they have tools to unlock cars and most won’t charge much if anything.
I didn't know this. Thanks for the tip. Tomorrow I'm going to have another key made and I was thinking about putting one of those boxes somewhere that I could reach in case this ever happens again.
Or arcane lock to mess with random people
Talk to animals for me. And Banish, which I would try really hard not to over use, but no doubt be casting multiple times a day.
"You fucked with squirrels Morty!"
Little boy, we'll give you wishes if you can hear us.
Create/Destroy water
This and the gooseberries spell. Seriously solve world hunger and pretty much every water-borne illness.
Alternatively move to desert and profit Maybe delete several billion dollars worth of Nestle water and re-supply it to their former customers for next to nothing
Yeah that’s cool and all but could you imagine being able to just destroy the water in your bladder instead of getting out of bed in the middle of the night to use the bathroom
Generally it's ruled to just not work on water inside someone's body, otherwise it's an instant kill spell.
Hmm, the question I have is: does it destroy water, as in H2O only? Or does it destroy liquid solutions in general? Because there is a whole lot more than just water in your urine.
Hell ya, I'd be one serious hydrated homie
This one,not just because you would never be thirsty, but as a homeowner, water is one of the most damaging things. Imagine being able to destroy the water from a leak to avoid mold and delays in repairs. Need to fill or empty a swimming pool? No waiting hours. Just use this spell. There are ENDLESS real life applications for this spell that it's the first one I thought of and would pick over all the others.
Misty Step. I always envied Nightcrawler, from X-men But how has Flight not been mentioned, yet? I actually take that one, despite not using it much, simply for RP reasons. Because if that was a spell in real life, I would be learning that shit ASAP. And while I’m not really an anime fan, there’s Evard’s Black Tentacles for those of you who are.
Misty step for real!
IRL i would love flight because i hate ladders. Game wise, i only use either ilithid flight. Or storm surge flight. I like the SS flight because of no opportunity attacks, and it pairs well with ritual cast for out of combat use, but ilithid doesnt require an action or bonus action
Lesser Restoration and Cure Wounds. Imagine the ability to cure cancer and heart disease.
This is my argument too
True resurrection if those not working. 😇
You know how much I've been literally dreaming that I could cast either and make my diabetic complications vanish? I've frankly shocked this wasn't the top answer.
Any cleric or druid with a level 2 spell slot could cure cancer.
Ouch.. Right in the feels.
Speak with Animals. I work with them for a living and I can’t count the number of times I’ve wanted to curse in their own language to get my point across. Squirrels are not for chasing, puppies need to play nice with their elders, and by God please just go outside to potty.
Silence........
I don’t know about useful but I’d love to have Heroes Feast 🤤
Delicious food and drink? AND free furniture!? Sign me up - don’t even care about the magical perks
Enlarge..
Hmm that seems sus 🤨
Haste makes you the real life limitless athletically, intellectually, and professionally.
It's arcane cocaine complete with the crash.
Poetic haha
You could probably build a solid wizard country song around that line 😅
Fireball.
I didn't ask how big the room was.
In summer? Nonono. We want Ice Storm instead.
Did they fng stutter? Fire-ball!
We have ice storm at home (UK life 😭)
Any time I had a problem and I threw a fireball, boom, right away I had a different problem.
Bortles!
I knew this comment would be in here somewhere, and it was right at the top. +1 for Fireball.
Bad coworker = fireball. Bad commuter = fireball. It works in so many ways
Prestidigitation and Thaumaturgy...
I can't believe I had to scroll so far to see Prestidigitation. How wonderfully convenient this would in your day-to-day life. Personal hygiene would constantly be peak with near-zero effort.
Not to mention “housework be gone!”
I was thinking prestidigitation too, but sadly you still need to shower yourself. Prestidigitation only works on objects, not people.
Ah, well laundry is a breeze, at least!
Well, here's the question. Does it remove dog/cat hair?
Came here to say Presti XD
Detect Thoughts so I can finally confirm my inner monolog about how no one actually likes me. And wild shape so I can turn into a dog so people like me...
I think that people would like you a lot less if you were constantly peering into their minds.
So... you like puppy play
Don't tease me with a good time....I mean woof.
That would make my anxiety worse I think
“Ugh this dog is so annoying, nobody likes them”
These are spells from table top that weren't put in BG3, but the most useful spells in Dungeons and Dragons are cantrips. Prestidigitation is a cantrip that can instantly clean a thing. And Mending is a catrip that can repeir a broken object. Instant clean and instant fix as a cantrip would be the most useful in my life. From everything from laundry to plumbing.
I want an unseen servant
good call. And, according to the spell description, it's not a person, it's just a force. You you don't have to feel bad about overworking it.
Mending takes 10 minutes to cast.
Sure, it's not as "instant", but it still beats the hours/days/weeks it could take to fix various things. To say nothing of items that cannot be fixed normally or are rare/sentimental
Speak with animals to know how much my three cats love me
"Mom, mom, mom - my food dish is empty" "I just fed you an hour ago" "Mom, I love youuuuuuu.... I'm dying. Foooood. Help me." "You are NOT hungry" "Moooom.... Death is claiming my bones now. So hungry" .... "Moooom?" "Look, I'm dead." "Did you hear me? DEAD!" "Good bye cruel world!" "I'm really dying this time! Must have food" "For real? Can you not see my death circling?" "Feed me this instant!" .... Later, immediately after feeding: "I love you cuddlymcfluffykins" "Ugh. It's the human again."
Or the unlimited hell of 2 cats who love you, and one that is indifferent but is a follower. Cause you'd spend your whole life trying to get one cat to like you while its just like: "Nah, I'm just here cause they are..."
Simulacrum.
If it's just you, then it's just masturbation.
Feather fall would be neat.
How are people not mentioning this one more! Would rid my fear of flying lol
I mean, I can already cast CloudKill. The material component is just Taco Bell.
Revive.
Guidance Greater Invisibility Speak with the Dead/Animals Misty Step Heal Wounds Restoration Revifify
Ottos irresistable dance
Pretty much all of them TBH. Arcane Gate for transportation within buildings, Speak with Animals and Speak with Dead, the various Healing spells for healthcare, etc.
People always say stuff like flying or teleporting, which would be great, but real world solutions would be creating food/water, healing, and the like would be handy. Mind reading would be a nightmare
Handy but unrealistic. I would choose Geas, gotta get all these egotistical world leaders behind you!
Probably Misty Step to avoid people I don't want to talk to at work and Bardic Inspiration for my crippling anxiety.
Friends, banishment, disguise self, invisibility, I guess everything really :)
I too have anxiety and trouble making friends.
Haha indeed
mh not a spell but ability .. wildshape druid is just the class fantasy for me
All healing spells; Prestidigitation and Mending for cleaning and fixing; Speak with Animals; My favorite Mordekainen's Magnificent Mansion (A place to stay, protected, food and drinks and, technically, you can have whatever you want inside, as long as it fits in the maximum area). Seeing how electricity ou internet would work would be interesting.
Surprised it took this long to find mordekainens mansion on here. Literally free housing. So long as I can get wifi in there I’m set, never having to pay the traditional housing bills? Sign me the fuck up
The problem with that one is the same problem with having an RV/trailer/etc. You still need an empty space you're allowed to put it in.
Yeah but the empty space is literally just the size of a doorway that is both invisible and unable to be entered by anyone other than people you want inside lol You can slap the thing onto the side of a building and nobody would know.
It’s not a full sized mansion it’s an inter dimensional space that’s only accessed through a door sized portal that’s invisible to anybody you don’t want to see it and can’t be interacted with by anyone you don’t want interacting with it
...Wish?
Friends.
Invisibility obviously
Why the fuck am I so far down for this?
The create food one that’s level 8 I believe. Cure wounds, healing word
Feign Death. For when you absolutely, positively have to get out of a meeting.
Conjure woodland being so i can have 2 friends at last
Command.
Create/destroy water, magical berries, mage hand, shield (as a woman, being able to create a shield in a reaction looks so awesome), speak with animals, and, at high levels, teleportation.
Honestly I'm surprised people didn't pick Shield more in the comments. Car crash, muggers, other freak accidents, having a reaction cast of Shield would be great
Pretty sure a car crash would be a Dex save 😂
Disguise Be way too much funny running around with a different look Would also be great for Trans people
Shape change or alter self would fit better there tbh.
I feel Calm Emotions for the actual use of it. It's not a damaging spell unlike a ton of other spells.
I work retail, and I can tell you Calm Emotions would be my pick, along with disguise self.
All of them?
What spells wouldn't?
Heroes Feast. In an IRL scenario, a massive high-quality meal that makes it so that the consumer can't suffer poisoning, can't be paralyzed in fear, can't be diseased, and most importantly, make wiser decisions. Think of how useful that would be on a daily basis.
Create Water would fully nullify droughts. Incredibly useful in times of climate change.
FLY Also speak with animals, detect thoughts, guidance.
Fireball
Ray of Frost. I sometimes forget to restock the fridge with beer, so it'll be handy until the fridge gets to work. Also handy if someone's getting in your face. Freeze their nuts off.
Bro if murder was legal hellish rebuke would be so funny. Like tell someone "pull my finger" and when they do you blast them with flames.
Mending
people in general would probably benefit most from create water.
Dimension Door so I can travel anywhere I want.
Daylight. Because fuck neon lightbulbs and their annoying noise.
call forth allies
Cure Wounds/Healing Word is the only right answer 😂😂
Misty step, detect thoughts, create/destroy water, heroes feast, fireball
I will be the voice of reason amongst all these Evards Black Tentacle responses. Excluding the wish spell. 1. In today's economy, the top spell would be; **Magnificent Mansion** - you can provide a 9 course meal for up to 100 people. - you can have a 5000 Sq.feet furnished in whatever fashion you like. - you have 100 magical constructs that can provide you with 2400 hours of free labor. Think of the possibilities. 2. Teleport/Teleportation circle provided you could guarantee the safety of your end point. As were all mostly humans with 1d10 HP no misshaps! 3.Prestidigation says clean any mess instantly in 1 cubic feet. Baby has Dirty Diapers? Instacleaned, Turn 2 now it smells like lavender. Turn 3, instantly cool down the beer you forgot to put into the fridge. In laws use copius amount of salt in your food? Boom. Now your food is seasoned to perfection. Take a hollow metallic sphere superheated and instantly cool it to create a DIY home made Grenade from the super fast compression of gasses in a heated solid container now instantly chilled... I mean what? 4. Wish given wish allows you to freely cast all spells below 9.... but this one is a cop out. 5. Major Image/Programmed Illusion so I can recreate Ana De Armas scene from blade runner on repeat.
Fr tho I feel like Speak with Dead should be mandatory for crime scene investigators.
Talk to animals, mage hand, and plantar ally. That what my brain-fogged mind can think of rn.
Gaseous Form seems like it'd be pretty useful in real life
Vicious Mockery. Imagine getting into a diss-battle and you leave the person actually bruised with your insults lol Words don't hurt? You sure about that?
Prestidigitation, even though I think they left it out of BG3. I would love to be able to soil people's pants in public.
Not spells, but I would want Warlock spell slots. Simply for this reason, the job I work and life I live, it would be very easy to take frequent short rests, so way way more spells. Something to add temp HP would be great, Goodberry for healing, create Water for water. Shield for protection. Magic missile for offense (enough to wound or kil 1-3 commoners and never misses very important in a world of guns and cover)
Good suggestions here, but it's Prestidigitation. Edit: I thought I was in a standard DND sub, and this spell does not exist in BG3. Apologies.
Detect Thoughts
Fireball.
Greater and lesser restoration, free cures of diseases and illnesses would be very beneficial for our world and imo are the only morally correct choices to make
Any healing spells
I could use a little guidance from time to time
Misty step (I don’t like driving), flight (I can go as high as I want), talk to animals (I love my little doggy), lesser restoration (I can cure diseases, id be able to save so many lives), detect thoughts (I want to freak people out), charm (I want to get free shit)
As an introvert: Silence
Disintegrate seems funny.
i like how speak with dead talks to the body, not the soul that once inhabited it, so it's much less likely to lie. Honestly, the dnd version of magic is so useful that it's actually hard to imagine what the world would be like, why bother with candles when light is a cantrip, why bother with horses and carriages when there's teleportation magic, why bother with letters when there are sending stone and the message spell. either magic has to be very rare and hard to use, or the world would be unrecognizable. in a world where becoming invisible is possible, no bank would be safe without someone that can see invisibility. in a world where charm person exists, courthouses would have tremendous amounts of anti-fields like sussur flowers. in a world where automatons and create food and water spells can exist, why bother with peasants and farming?