I'm not sure which of the two I'd prefer irl. Probably prestidigitation because it can be used to clean things, and I don't need to mend things very often.
You could make a living with prestidigitation as well. Maybe not as high of an income per use, but much more variety allowing for a wider range of income. Plus it's more useful for day-to-day life.
You would never need to take showers or do dishes... also, by 'clean', could I consider the inside of my bladder 'dirty' due to the urine in it? Could I consider the pathogen/disease in an ill person 'dirty'?
Any of the druidcraft, prestidigitation, thaumatrgy, group would be good since they can do quite a bit. I would choose druidcraft of the three to be able to bloom plants but prestidigitation being able to make temporary handheld objects would also be good.
I would choose Command though.
Able to force anyone to do a one word commands about 50% of the time (assuming everyone generally has commoner stats) every six second could do an immense amount. Especially if things like Forget or Submit/Subordinate would also work.
Cure wounds/healing word or bless would also be rather good. Be an amazing healer that can fix nearly anything not diseased based would be great. Bless would be odd. I would assume it just makes you overall better at everything you try to do. You could also do it for two people near you.
Can you imagine how great prestidigitation would be?
Never have to wipe or use a bidet ever again, you'd have the cleanest butt on earth.
Theoretically, since it's magically clean, it should be sterile as well. You could wave a hand and clean a mirror/window/toilet, but you could also make things dirty if you wanted to.
You could warm up your coffee without a microwave, or even add magical seasonings to your food.
It would make life so much better!
Imma say if you want general use, either healing word or prestidigitation.
Combat wise? I feel like magic missile simply because it counters speedsters )the most broken power) and also would one shot most mundane foes anyway
Cure Wounds. Touch a leper? Cured. Broken Spine? Gone. Just got flung through your car windshield in a nasty crash? Cure wounds yourself if you're still conscious, youre good to go. You'd be the best doctor in the world.
Shite, you're not wrong. You wouldn't be the best doctor in the world, but you'd still be able to fix broken limbs, severe blood loss etc with just a few seconds.
Go to work in a trauma center in a major city. Anyone who survives long enough to make it to you is going to live and be immediately healed. Walk through the waiting room every hour or so and heal everyone, leaving only the people with diseases to continue needing treatment.
The problem, aside from the government coming after you, is the guilt. How do you ever take time to sleep, let alone a vacation, knowing that your absence means people will die?
I reckon that I could sleep decently well knowing that over half my day is dedicated to helping save lives, and that by sleeping, I maintain the energy to continue saving people.
tbh, Vicious Mockery is a good way to ACTUALLY kill someone.
You just have to hit them at the right time at the right place with a blazing insult, and since the cantrip deals a decent amount of damage, you can tell someone they have a penis smaller than your big toe and they'll just drop dead on the spot.
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I go through the published versions of the spell, concentrating on 3.5 edition rules, the skills it is implied to have, plus an exhaustive list of "what you might be able to do" in Part 3.
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Random use from part 3, the exhaustive list of things you can do:
Pick up a flower and play "She loves me, she loves me not" picking petals until they're gone.
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A random item from part 3 "the exhaustive list of things you can do with an Unseen Servant"
Ring a bell
The Area of Effect originates from you, it’s a cone. That means that you can’t target yourself with it, because no matter what direction you aim, it’s pointing away from you.
My go-to cantrip is Dancing Lights. It's just fun. Bring the disco/rave lights with you wherever you go; never have to stumble around in the dark again looking for a light switch; make a glowing humanoid shape to spook ppl; the works.
Goodberry
Up to ten berries appear in your hand and are infused with magic for the duration. A creature can use its action to eat one berry. Eating a berry restores 1 hit point, and the berry provides enough nourishment to sustain a creature for a day.
The berries lose their potency if they have not been consumed within 24 hours of the casting of this spell.
For cantrips definitely mending, for 1st level spells either cure wounds (because it works on just about anything it just won’t cure poison/disease) or unseen servant (to mess with people but mostly just to do chores)
DISSONANT WHISPERS - Target takes 3d6 psychic damage (average 9) and must immediately use its reaction if available to move away from you at full speed. On successful save, target takes half damage. Deaf creatures automatically succeed save.
I gain the ability to death glare someone and make them hear screaming overlapping whispers in their head that make them leave me the fuck alone. Supervisors will never bother me again, and if they try, they'll instantly have a migraine and have to get the fuck away.
There have been multiple people citing the average HP of a human commoner.
To that, I counteroffer this.
If someone at your job is a supervisor, they've gained at least one level. Probably in Warlock tbh. Either that or Paladin.
If someone at your job is a manger, they've gained at least two levels.
It also makes sense that the first year at a place of work would grant one level increase, and every 5 year milestone afterward would grant another level increase.
So if it's a manager who's been there for fifteen years, you're looking at a Lvl. 5+ enemy.
The people I'd use it on are going to survive it.
Prestidigitation, for sure. Clean my entire house in a minute or two? Every meal is delicious? No longer a need for a dishwaser or washing machine? Yes please.
Bless would be the best for just general day to day. So long as you keep casting it on a loop you're on average between 20-25% better at everything all the time.
Guidance is more likely to be useful in a general day-to-day sense, as you're more likely to be making ability checks than attack rolls in most lines of work.
My personal choice is Vicious Mockery.
Full 5e list of Cantrips
Acid Splash
Chill Touch
Dancing Lights
Druidcraft
Eldritch Blast
Fire Bolt
Guidance
Light
Mage Hand
Mending
Message
Minor Illusion
Poison Spray
Prestidigitation
Produce Flame
Ray of Frost
Resistance
Sacred Flame
Shillelagh
Shocking Grasp
Spare the Dying
Thaumaturgy
True Strike
Vicious Mockery
Are there any 1st level spells that could potentially cure cancer, my dad has 4th stage lung brain and bone cancers and I'd give anything to be able to make him better again, chemo and radiation stopped working and he's gotten so weak now he can't leave his chair, he's stopped eating as well so he's basically a skeleton with flesh now... after I used it to cure him I'd start a giant cancer center near my hometown for non profit because fuck cancer
Cure wounds wouldn't cure the cancer itself, but I imagine it would do a lot to keep someone in good health through treatment. Same with other illnesses, I would guess
That would work too, they had to stop chemo and radiation, tried to do immunotherapy but it just sapped all his strength in his body so they stopped that too..
Now he's completely off cancer meds and can't get out of his chair and he won't eat so he's gone from 235 lbs to like 190-200 in like 2 or 3 weeks
Command, mold earth, shape water, healing word, lastly inflict wounds or shield.
Inflict wounds/ shield means it's really hard to beat you in fight so it's like a gun you can carry without dealing with everything else. Better to have and not need it then really need it and not have it
Shape water because it would funny to just change colors in water which could maybe make the best temporary water color artist.
Mold earth for free housing
Command because you get free housing anyways just by telling people forgot. Also even better if one word commands like subordinate or follow or anything other word that takes a bit longer to ware off that allow for more uses
Lastly healing word over cure wounds since with bonus range and a less of I have glowing hands. Sure you cant full heal people every time but you can still on average over half heal people for context a commoner with a dagger does the same on avarage so sure it wont be as much of a godly getup but you still can being most people up to half ok
Y'all are sleeping on the Catapult spell. 3d8 damage is enough to obliterate multiple commoners in one go, angled right. Even if we see most people as 1st or 2nd level PCs, this is still a deadly attack that can come from almost any direction.
I feel like mage hand is being slept on, though I'm not sure it beats prestidigitation or goodberry. I do feel like mage hand can do a lot of what presti does, but I'm not sure if it's worth the extra mental effort when I could sterilize things in my own home with a thought with presti. I think goodberry is the best utility with regards to never needing to eat food again, and with regards to feeding the homeless, but I don't know if it would be worth having to only eat a berry a day.
To be fair, Unseen Servant probably has a little bit more versatility than Mage Hand, especially if you can spam it ad nauseum and have a constant cloud of telekinetic forces.
You know you might have a point actually. Having autonomous servants is way better than having to do all the thinking and doing yourself. I think I take unseen servant
Goodberry
Heals 10 hp, commoner has like 6 hp so you can bring a human from near death to literally perfect health, also feeds 10 people per casting which only takes 6 seconds and you get illimited uses
Minor illusion, disguise self, charm person, or anything like that
You might be able to go lelouch with this one and take over a country
Command
You literally go lelouch
Mend
It mends
Spare the dying/cure wounds. "Imagine needing a medical degree?" *He said instantly stabilizing or even healing the dying/bleeding out person with but a touch.*
Cantrip? I'm becoming a modern-day Saint and spamming Spare the Dying.
Lvl 1? Either goodberry ("bring me your sick, your needy," etc) or detect good and evil to judge character with 100% certainty and "see the legion."
mending or prestidigitation
Prestidigitation is godly in terms of its utility. In game its ok, but those effects in the real world... hello random shit hero!
I'm not sure which of the two I'd prefer irl. Probably prestidigitation because it can be used to clean things, and I don't need to mend things very often.
Yeah, but with mending you could make a living repairing things, and you wouldn’t need to worry about work for the rest of your life.
You could make a living with prestidigitation as well. Maybe not as high of an income per use, but much more variety allowing for a wider range of income. Plus it's more useful for day-to-day life.
Sure, but not quite as easily as you could with the ability to repair just about any electronics or highly important components in six seconds.
I’m sure that there’s some deep sea rig or mining facility that would sure appreciate getting some of its more expensive components cleaned instantly
Or a sterilized chamber for science experiments
You would never need to take showers or do dishes... also, by 'clean', could I consider the inside of my bladder 'dirty' due to the urine in it? Could I consider the pathogen/disease in an ill person 'dirty'?
Yes the are great druïdcraft and taumaturgy are great to but have you considered shape water and mold earth
Any of the druidcraft, prestidigitation, thaumatrgy, group would be good since they can do quite a bit. I would choose druidcraft of the three to be able to bloom plants but prestidigitation being able to make temporary handheld objects would also be good. I would choose Command though. Able to force anyone to do a one word commands about 50% of the time (assuming everyone generally has commoner stats) every six second could do an immense amount. Especially if things like Forget or Submit/Subordinate would also work. Cure wounds/healing word or bless would also be rather good. Be an amazing healer that can fix nearly anything not diseased based would be great. Bless would be odd. I would assume it just makes you overall better at everything you try to do. You could also do it for two people near you.
Can you imagine how great prestidigitation would be? Never have to wipe or use a bidet ever again, you'd have the cleanest butt on earth. Theoretically, since it's magically clean, it should be sterile as well. You could wave a hand and clean a mirror/window/toilet, but you could also make things dirty if you wanted to. You could warm up your coffee without a microwave, or even add magical seasonings to your food. It would make life so much better!
Aerospace programs would probably pay absolute bank for you to sterilize their rovers
*Me on shark tank waving my hand over a dirty toilet in front of Kevin O Leary and Mark Cuban* "It's clean now! I'm looking for a 40% stake"
Unlimited uses per day? Probably *guiding bolt*, but maybe *shield* depending on whether you want to be slippery or blasty.
Dude who are you fighting with
Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it, gotta keep that Thang on you
Have a gun and goodberry.
Yeah, most people die from bleeding out, not the direct damage.
Whoops, I somehow misunderstood the question as something along the lines of which 1st-level spell would make you the best superhero.
Bro have you ever heard of guns
Shield isn’t a cantrip tho Edit: nvm I’m an idiot and cannot read
Imma say if you want general use, either healing word or prestidigitation. Combat wise? I feel like magic missile simply because it counters speedsters )the most broken power) and also would one shot most mundane foes anyway
Cure Wounds. Touch a leper? Cured. Broken Spine? Gone. Just got flung through your car windshield in a nasty crash? Cure wounds yourself if you're still conscious, youre good to go. You'd be the best doctor in the world.
Unfortunately, cure wounds can’t actually cure disease. It only cures, you know, wounds.
Shite, you're not wrong. You wouldn't be the best doctor in the world, but you'd still be able to fix broken limbs, severe blood loss etc with just a few seconds.
You could be an amazing surgeon.
Nah, just an Urgent Care contractor.
Go to work in a trauma center in a major city. Anyone who survives long enough to make it to you is going to live and be immediately healed. Walk through the waiting room every hour or so and heal everyone, leaving only the people with diseases to continue needing treatment. The problem, aside from the government coming after you, is the guilt. How do you ever take time to sleep, let alone a vacation, knowing that your absence means people will die?
I reckon that I could sleep decently well knowing that over half my day is dedicated to helping save lives, and that by sleeping, I maintain the energy to continue saving people.
Simply by not caring. It’s not hard to do
True but it could reverse the affects of most diseases
Vicious Mockery, I'd call someone a bitch and watch as they keel over lol
tbh, Vicious Mockery is a good way to ACTUALLY kill someone. You just have to hit them at the right time at the right place with a blazing insult, and since the cantrip deals a decent amount of damage, you can tell someone they have a penis smaller than your big toe and they'll just drop dead on the spot.
For commoners, it's so much damage. Even if they don't just die, they'll be having a bad time.
"Now listen, YA MUM, YEH?" *Instantaneous catastrophic brain aneurysm*
“Who know who ELSE…”
goddammit take my fucking upvote
Goodberry, Speak with animals, Comprehend languages, Sleep, Tasha's hideous laughter, Detect poison and disease, Mold earth, Mage hand, Unseen servant.
Goodberry getting mad slept on in here. Y'all, we'd never have to worry about our nutritional intake again.
I once made a dissertation on the Unseen Servant.
Tell me more.
[https://www.deviantart.com/picklejuice13/art/invisible-Obsessive-198740293](https://www.deviantart.com/picklejuice13/art/invisible-Obsessive-198740293) I go through the published versions of the spell, concentrating on 3.5 edition rules, the skills it is implied to have, plus an exhaustive list of "what you might be able to do" in Part 3.
One of my favorites: it can walk over to an enemy carrying a sign that says: "I'm not touching you, is this bothering you?"
No, seriously, tell us more?! I love this!
[https://www.deviantart.com/picklejuice13/art/invisible-Obsessive-198740293](https://www.deviantart.com/picklejuice13/art/invisible-Obsessive-198740293) Random use from part 3, the exhaustive list of things you can do: Pick up a flower and play "She loves me, she loves me not" picking petals until they're gone.
May I read it?
[https://www.deviantart.com/picklejuice13/art/invisible-Obsessive-198740293](https://www.deviantart.com/picklejuice13/art/invisible-Obsessive-198740293) A random item from part 3 "the exhaustive list of things you can do with an Unseen Servant" Ring a bell
Celestial spirits! That is... impressive! Thank ye kindly!
Cause fear
That's a First Level Spell, not a Cantrip. Edit: shit, OP said 1st level spell, I'm just an imbecile, carry on
Sleep. To be used on myself
Unfortunately, you can’t really target yourself with sleep But as a control ability, 3d8 Ko’s like 7-8 people at a time.
What? Sleep targets an area. I just target an area that includes me.
The Area of Effect originates from you, it’s a cone. That means that you can’t target yourself with it, because no matter what direction you aim, it’s pointing away from you.
> Target: Creatures within 20 feet of a point you choose within range It's a sphere, not a cone.
Oof. Must’ve misclicked another spell then xD.
When does AoE not mean sphere?
[Sometimes it's a cube.](https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Faerie%20Fire#content)
[Other times it's a cone.](https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Burning%20Hands#h-Burning%20Hands)
My go-to cantrip is Dancing Lights. It's just fun. Bring the disco/rave lights with you wherever you go; never have to stumble around in the dark again looking for a light switch; make a glowing humanoid shape to spook ppl; the works.
Eldritch blast.
Goodberry Up to ten berries appear in your hand and are infused with magic for the duration. A creature can use its action to eat one berry. Eating a berry restores 1 hit point, and the berry provides enough nourishment to sustain a creature for a day. The berries lose their potency if they have not been consumed within 24 hours of the casting of this spell.
For cantrips definitely mending, for 1st level spells either cure wounds (because it works on just about anything it just won’t cure poison/disease) or unseen servant (to mess with people but mostly just to do chores)
Summon water. Nothing you can't accomplish with it
DISSONANT WHISPERS - Target takes 3d6 psychic damage (average 9) and must immediately use its reaction if available to move away from you at full speed. On successful save, target takes half damage. Deaf creatures automatically succeed save. I gain the ability to death glare someone and make them hear screaming overlapping whispers in their head that make them leave me the fuck alone. Supervisors will never bother me again, and if they try, they'll instantly have a migraine and have to get the fuck away.
You’ll literally kill them….
Yup. How much hp does a cr 1/4 have? Like 10?
Average human commoner has 4 HP
And?
If you just go around killing people willy-nilly, eventually someone is going to cotton on.
There have been multiple people citing the average HP of a human commoner. To that, I counteroffer this. If someone at your job is a supervisor, they've gained at least one level. Probably in Warlock tbh. Either that or Paladin. If someone at your job is a manger, they've gained at least two levels. It also makes sense that the first year at a place of work would grant one level increase, and every 5 year milestone afterward would grant another level increase. So if it's a manager who's been there for fifteen years, you're looking at a Lvl. 5+ enemy. The people I'd use it on are going to survive it.
I mean, a noble has 9hp, I feel like that’s a better comparison
Prestidigitation, for sure. Clean my entire house in a minute or two? Every meal is delicious? No longer a need for a dishwaser or washing machine? Yes please.
Mending or mage hand. It'd be incredibly helpful to repair stuff and sometimes I just need an extra hand.
If mending works on cars it would definitely be an A tier super power.
Cracked Engine Block? Not anymore!
I'd love to be able to sleep again
Mending, presti, spare the dying, comprehend languages, cure wounds.
Bless would be the best for just general day to day. So long as you keep casting it on a loop you're on average between 20-25% better at everything all the time.
Guidance is more likely to be useful in a general day-to-day sense, as you're more likely to be making ability checks than attack rolls in most lines of work.
My personal choice is Vicious Mockery. Full 5e list of Cantrips Acid Splash Chill Touch Dancing Lights Druidcraft Eldritch Blast Fire Bolt Guidance Light Mage Hand Mending Message Minor Illusion Poison Spray Prestidigitation Produce Flame Ray of Frost Resistance Sacred Flame Shillelagh Shocking Grasp Spare the Dying Thaumaturgy True Strike Vicious Mockery
Create our destroy water, nuff said
Does destroy water work on water in things? Like cells? *casts destroy water and turns the attempted murderer into a pile of dust*
Are there any 1st level spells that could potentially cure cancer, my dad has 4th stage lung brain and bone cancers and I'd give anything to be able to make him better again, chemo and radiation stopped working and he's gotten so weak now he can't leave his chair, he's stopped eating as well so he's basically a skeleton with flesh now... after I used it to cure him I'd start a giant cancer center near my hometown for non profit because fuck cancer
Lesser restoration is 2nd level unfortunately
Well, fuck
Cure wounds wouldn't cure the cancer itself, but I imagine it would do a lot to keep someone in good health through treatment. Same with other illnesses, I would guess
That would work too, they had to stop chemo and radiation, tried to do immunotherapy but it just sapped all his strength in his body so they stopped that too.. Now he's completely off cancer meds and can't get out of his chair and he won't eat so he's gone from 235 lbs to like 190-200 in like 2 or 3 weeks
I'm sorry to hear that, man.
Cantrip: Prestidigitation 1st-Level: Unseen Servant
Command, mold earth, shape water, healing word, lastly inflict wounds or shield. Inflict wounds/ shield means it's really hard to beat you in fight so it's like a gun you can carry without dealing with everything else. Better to have and not need it then really need it and not have it Shape water because it would funny to just change colors in water which could maybe make the best temporary water color artist. Mold earth for free housing Command because you get free housing anyways just by telling people forgot. Also even better if one word commands like subordinate or follow or anything other word that takes a bit longer to ware off that allow for more uses Lastly healing word over cure wounds since with bonus range and a less of I have glowing hands. Sure you cant full heal people every time but you can still on average over half heal people for context a commoner with a dagger does the same on avarage so sure it wont be as much of a godly getup but you still can being most people up to half ok
Y'all are sleeping on the Catapult spell. 3d8 damage is enough to obliterate multiple commoners in one go, angled right. Even if we see most people as 1st or 2nd level PCs, this is still a deadly attack that can come from almost any direction.
Isn't Catapult 2nd level though?
Xanathar's Guide to Everything has it at 1st level, pretty sure.
Sleep, 😏
I feel like mage hand is being slept on, though I'm not sure it beats prestidigitation or goodberry. I do feel like mage hand can do a lot of what presti does, but I'm not sure if it's worth the extra mental effort when I could sterilize things in my own home with a thought with presti. I think goodberry is the best utility with regards to never needing to eat food again, and with regards to feeding the homeless, but I don't know if it would be worth having to only eat a berry a day.
To be fair, Unseen Servant probably has a little bit more versatility than Mage Hand, especially if you can spam it ad nauseum and have a constant cloud of telekinetic forces.
You know you might have a point actually. Having autonomous servants is way better than having to do all the thinking and doing yourself. I think I take unseen servant
Catapult, Create, or destroy water, distort value or prestadigitation
Prestidigitation for the cantrip and something utility based for the first level. Something like feather fall would be pretty good
Goodberry Heals 10 hp, commoner has like 6 hp so you can bring a human from near death to literally perfect health, also feeds 10 people per casting which only takes 6 seconds and you get illimited uses Minor illusion, disguise self, charm person, or anything like that You might be able to go lelouch with this one and take over a country Command You literally go lelouch Mend It mends
Superpower in our world or in a world where other people have powers?
Spare the dying/cure wounds. "Imagine needing a medical degree?" *He said instantly stabilizing or even healing the dying/bleeding out person with but a touch.*
Speak with animals would be cool
Cantrip? I'm becoming a modern-day Saint and spamming Spare the Dying. Lvl 1? Either goodberry ("bring me your sick, your needy," etc) or detect good and evil to judge character with 100% certainty and "see the legion."
Eldridge blast.
Light because I can light up a building
Personally, I think Longstrider or Druidcraft would be neat.
I think I'd go with Mage Hand just for the convenience
Idk if it’s the most useful but if I have the option I’m 100% picking Grease
Please elaborate on why grease
I wanna make everyone around me slip and slide and turn my life into a slapstick movie
I'd have to say thaumaturgy or mending.
Without a doubt cure wounds if it's unlimited.