Wish is the best utility spell, OC. It just rarely sees play given the spell level.
Minor Illusion is solid, but I'm going to put Speak with Animals out there. Animals are consistent throughout society and the wilderness and this spell is useful for both information gathering or favor granting, and as a ritual it doesn't use up spell slot resources.
Wish is the best utility spell, OC. It just rarely sees play given the spell level.
Minor Illusion is solid, but I'm going to put Speak with Animals out there. Animals are consistent throughout society and the wilderness and this spell is useful for both information gathering or favor granting, and as a ritual it doesn't use up spell slot resources.
Speak with Animals is definitely up there. Really DM dependent though (as is Wish, plus wish has that troublesome side effect of needing to be so high level to learn how to cast it)
I'm partial to command because our party's sorcerer once used it to prevent out party from being tpk'ed by our sadistic dm. cultists had summoned a demilich from the lower planes to stomp our three, already badly hurt level fives, but one "begone!" and one nat one later, we saved the realm and didn't die in the process!
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Having fun? I would hope so. Lets see how much fun you're having after the lich starts dipping into it's 1/day spell slots.
Given my history w/DMs that try & outsmart magic users via every trick in the book to say that magic is no good, I'd say that there is NO utility spell that the DM can't say doesn't work.
It's especially bad with Illusion spells, communication spells, & spells that bypass Survival checks.
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Once made Maxwell's Silver Hammer come down upon Strahd's head to make sure he was dead.
Always study & sharpen philosophical razors. They save a lot of trouble.
Prestidigitation and its cousins in Thaumaturgy and Druidcraft are all solid for their "do a random assortment of minor things" effects... but I'd also point to Mage Hand: it's incredibly simple, but the simple ability to have functional telekinesis can be pretty clutch in numerous situations.
Honourable mention to Minor Illusion: it's as useful as you are creative with it... with the massive asterisk/double-edged sword that it's as useful as your DM allows it to be.
I want to know what your favorite utility spell is Mage Hand because I squished one of the other players with it XD
Prestidigitation. The spell I most wish I had IRL.
Wish is the best utility spell, OC. It just rarely sees play given the spell level.
Minor Illusion is solid, but I'm going to put Speak with Animals out there. Animals are consistent throughout society and the wilderness and this spell is useful for both information gathering or favor granting, and as a ritual it doesn't use up spell slot resources.
Speak with Animals is definitely up there. Really DM dependent though (as is Wish, plus wish has that troublesome side effect of needing to be so high level to learn how to cast it)
I'm partial to command because our party's sorcerer once used it to prevent out party from being tpk'ed by our sadistic dm. cultists had summoned a demilich from the lower planes to stomp our three, already badly hurt level fives, but one "begone!" and one nat one later, we saved the realm and didn't die in the process!
Having fun? I would hope so. Lets see how much fun you're having after the lich starts dipping into it's 1/day spell slots.
Given my history w/DMs that try & outsmart magic users via every trick in the book to say that magic is no good, I'd say that there is NO utility spell that the DM can't say doesn't work.
It's especially bad with Illusion spells, communication spells, & spells that bypass Survival checks.
DM, player & homebrewer(Current homebrew project is an unofficial conversion of SBURB/SGRUB from Homestuck into DND 5e)
Once made Maxwell's Silver Hammer come down upon Strahd's head to make sure he was dead.
Always study & sharpen philosophical razors. They save a lot of trouble.
Prestidigitation and its cousins in Thaumaturgy and Druidcraft are all solid for their "do a random assortment of minor things" effects... but I'd also point to Mage Hand: it's incredibly simple, but the simple ability to have functional telekinesis can be pretty clutch in numerous situations.
Honourable mention to Minor Illusion: it's as useful as you are creative with it... with the massive asterisk/double-edged sword that it's as useful as your DM allows it to be.
Prestidigitation is my usual go-to.
I've gotten to like Elementalism as well.
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Mold Earth only because some good ones were already stated. It’s useful
I'm curious how you squished a player with it when it's only a regular sized hand that can't manipulate anything more than 10lbs
if you take a small creature and cast reduce maybe it's small enough?
Having fun? I would hope so. Lets see how much fun you're having after the lich starts dipping into it's 1/day spell slots.
He played a gnome and the DM let him be really tiny.
Pulled a lever than dropped an ACME anvil on top of someone's head.
Ah that explains it. Thanks for the clarification