Trying to get your physical content on Beyond is like going to Microsoft and saying "I have a physical Playstation disk, give me a digital Xbox version!"
or Minor Illusion and become a street magician in Vegas
I don't even want that. I want prestidigitation so I can be lazy about cleaning stuff in the house and I can actually eat healthy food by just reflavoring it. any other benefit of Prestidigitation beyond that is just gravy.
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Trying to get your physical content on Beyond is like going to Microsoft and saying "I have a physical Playstation disk, give me a digital Xbox version!"
or Minor Illusion and become a street magician in Vegas
I don't even want that. I want prestidigitation so I can be lazy about cleaning stuff in the house and I can actually eat healthy food by just reflavoring it. any other benefit of Prestidigitation beyond that is just gravy.
Prestidigitation was my second choice after Unseen Servant way back on page one! So useful IRL.
I think a lot of these choices are going more for cool factor than practicality. In the real world - things are exceedingly different than in the world of D&D where magic, however rare, is still known and normal.
True Resurrection requires what would be approximately $2.5 million worth of diamonds. That's going to be difficult to get and no, nobody is going to risk such on the possible off-chance you might be telling the truth if you claim you can resurrect people - since you won't be able to prove it until after you are given the diamonds. So, unless you're already filthy rich or get extremely lucky with the lottery, it will be, most likely, that you'd never be able to actually use this ability. Worse, still, is if you ever did use it and prove it. Sure many would think you're a messiah, others would see you a threat and others as an interest of scientific importance whose interest in your ability will go beyond their moral duty to not infringe on your rights. You'll end up swarmed by people, assassinated or abducted and experimented on.
True Polymorph you'll need to be careful about. You will likely only be able to use creatures in the real world - no changing into dragons - and since your mental scores are affected, using it on yourself is risky. Especially since it can end up permanent in a world where there is no dispel magic and you're not intelligent enough to hurt yourself enough to drop form without it carrying over to you - noting that you're not a hero of D&D with insane hit points : you're basically a Commoner who just so happens to cast one spell per day. Turning people into objects or animals could be fun if done as pranks. But that novelty will wear off, so using this aspect of it becomes situational unless morality isn't a concern for you.
Clone would be a key to immortality if you could afford it. You can "sell" this pseudo immortality to the rich, but now you'd just revealed to the world (secrets only last so long when they're big like this) what you can do. You'll get filthy rich. Then you'd disappear to become some bad person's slave and ticket to longevity - whether you want to be or not, and by this point they'll have studied you and tracked you learning that it takes 120 days for clones to mature, and where you've likely hid yours. Or maybe abducted by those who want to learn how you do what you do. They'll torture you until you make a clone of yourself, having tracked all your others, and then when that clone is mature, they'll dissect you. Repeat ad nauseum until they somehow learn it (unlikely) or give up and just get rid of you. Even if not abducted, the idea you can safeguard their enemies means somebody will find you a threat and remove you. Even ignoring all of that, it also requires a cubic inch of flesh. That's flesh, not just a vial of blood or something. An ear, an eye, a finger, a big toe, etc. Hacking off a piece of yourself is quite a limit - and yeah, immortality seems great - but you'll need to hide that immortality and in world with growing surveillance, social media and facial recognition software plus nearly every square inch being photographed from space - good luck staying hidden without being some reclusive hermit - and in that case, what is the point of eternal life if you spend it in the same place? If you're keeping it a secret to avoid the crapfest mentioned above, how will you acquire the wealth to also gran immortality to somebody you love? If you can't, you'll watch friends, family and more all age and die. Even if you can grant immortality to them - where do you draw the line? Your great-great-great-great children? Unless everyone takes a vow of celibacy, this little immortal clan is just going to keep growing non-stop. until discovery (bad). Or you don't make them all immortal and have to make the choice to let them die. One day you're going to want to die, and at that point you have to tell those people you're going to take away their immortality. And it will happen. We're not built for immortality. At some point life will stop being worth it. It won't even be depression or anything, it would just be about, being ready.
Invulnerability - 10 mins of immunity to damage sounds great. Unfortunately, at approx $50,000 a go it may not be useful. Given that the material component literally doesn't exist you'll never use this, making this arguably the most useless choice.
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I think a lot of people aren't thinking about the real world when making the choices. Perhaps I'm overthinking this exercise and it's just a matter of what you find fun. But if I'm not then I think some of you need to remember what world we live in. People learning you have a super power, is not going to end up well. We live in a world where in some places whether you are "a person" or "just property" is dependant on what genitals you're born with. We live in a world where who you love determines whether you're normal or get entire nations wanting you to suffer and die and even burn in whatever afterlife they have imagined. We live in a world where the amount of pigment in your skin determines how likely you are to be hated or even killed. We live in a world where people can't make a stand against injustice without some dickheads thinking it's an excuse to destroy lives, burn down businesses and hurt innocent people - even people who support the cause - all in in the name of said cause. We live in a world where if you're poor you are considered trash and trodden on, but if you are rich you get called evil and blamed for conspiracies.
So in this world, do you really think your super power is going to be welcomed? No. This world will want to break you, mind body and soul.
Or maybe I'm being a bit pessimistic?
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I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Regenerate, Reverse Gravity, Wind Walk, Modify Memory, or how about Continual Flame? Sure it's around $5k, but it lasts forever. Get solar panels in your basement, set alight with continual flame, and free clean unlimited safe electricity. A worthwhile investment, perhaps.
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I think a lot of these choices are going more for cool factor than practicality. In the real world - things are exceedingly different than in the world of D&D where magic, however rare, is still known and normal.
True Resurrection requires what would be approximately $2.5 million worth of diamonds. That's going to be difficult to get and no, nobody is going to risk such on the possible off-chance you might be telling the truth if you claim you can resurrect people - since you won't be able to prove it until after you are given the diamonds. So, unless you're already filthy rich or get extremely lucky with the lottery, it will be, most likely, that you'd never be able to actually use this ability. Worse, still, is if you ever did use it and prove it. Sure many would think you're a messiah, others would see you a threat and others as an interest of scientific importance whose interest in your ability will go beyond their moral duty to not infringe on your rights. You'll end up swarmed by people, assassinated or abducted and experimented on.
True Polymorph you'll need to be careful about. You will likely only be able to use creatures in the real world - no changing into dragons - and since your mental scores are affected, using it on yourself is risky. Especially since it can end up permanent in a world where there is no dispel magic and you're not intelligent enough to hurt yourself enough to drop form without it carrying over to you - noting that you're not a hero of D&D with insane hit points : you're basically a Commoner who just so happens to cast one spell per day. Turning people into objects or animals could be fun if done as pranks. But that novelty will wear off, so using this aspect of it becomes situational unless morality isn't a concern for you.
Clone would be a key to immortality if you could afford it. You can "sell" this pseudo immortality to the rich, but now you'd just revealed to the world (secrets only last so long when they're big like this) what you can do. You'll get filthy rich. Then you'd disappear to become some bad person's slave and ticket to longevity - whether you want to be or not, and by this point they'll have studied you and tracked you learning that it takes 120 days for clones to mature, and where you've likely hid yours. Or maybe abducted by those who want to learn how you do what you do. They'll torture you until you make a clone of yourself, having tracked all your others, and then when that clone is mature, they'll dissect you. Repeat ad nauseum until they somehow learn it (unlikely) or give up and just get rid of you. Even if not abducted, the idea you can safeguard their enemies means somebody will find you a threat and remove you. Even ignoring all of that, it also requires a cubic inch of flesh. That's flesh, not just a vial of blood or something. An ear, an eye, a finger, a big toe, etc. Hacking off a piece of yourself is quite a limit - and yeah, immortality seems great - but you'll need to hide that immortality and in world with growing surveillance, social media and facial recognition software plus nearly every square inch being photographed from space - good luck staying hidden without being some reclusive hermit - and in that case, what is the point of eternal life if you spend it in the same place? If you're keeping it a secret to avoid the crapfest mentioned above, how will you acquire the wealth to also gran immortality to somebody you love? If you can't, you'll watch friends, family and more all age and die. Even if you can grant immortality to them - where do you draw the line? Your great-great-great-great children? Unless everyone takes a vow of celibacy, this little immortal clan is just going to keep growing non-stop. until discovery (bad). Or you don't make them all immortal and have to make the choice to let them die. One day you're going to want to die, and at that point you have to tell those people you're going to take away their immortality. And it will happen. We're not built for immortality. At some point life will stop being worth it. It won't even be depression or anything, it would just be about, being ready.
Invulnerability - 10 mins of immunity to damage sounds great. Unfortunately, at approx $50,000 a go it may not be useful. Given that the material component literally doesn't exist you'll never use this, making this arguably the most useless choice.
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I think a lot of people aren't thinking about the real world when making the choices. Perhaps I'm overthinking this exercise and it's just a matter of what you find fun. But if I'm not then I think some of you need to remember what world we live in. People learning you have a super power, is not going to end up well. We live in a world where in some places whether you are "a person" or "just property" is dependant on what genitals you're born with. We live in a world where who you love determines whether you're normal or get entire nations wanting you to suffer and die and even burn in whatever afterlife they have imagined. We live in a world where the amount of pigment in your skin determines how likely you are to be hated or even killed. We live in a world where people can't make a stand against injustice without some dickheads thinking it's an excuse to destroy lives, burn down businesses and hurt innocent people - even people who support the cause - all in in the name of said cause. We live in a world where if you're poor you are considered trash and trodden on, but if you are rich you get called evil and blamed for conspiracies.
So in this world, do you really think your super power is going to be welcomed? No. This world will want to break you, mind body and soul.
Or maybe I'm being a bit pessimistic?
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I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Regenerate, Reverse Gravity, Wind Walk, Modify Memory, or how about Continual Flame? Sure it's around $5k, but it lasts forever. Get solar panels in your basement, set alight with continual flame, and free clean unlimited safe electricity. A worthwhile investment, perhaps.
You could probably set up a cult to acquire the $2.5 mil, or scam people. Once you have it, you can probably revive someone who will be grateful enough to gift you another 2.5 mil, and rinse and repeat. You could quickly start profiting enough to hire a private army, and really screw up the whole world.
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I think a lot of people aren't thinking about the real world when making the choices. Perhaps I'm overthinking this exercise and it's just a matter of what you find fun. But if I'm not then I think some of you need to remember what world we live in. People learning you have a super power, is not going to end up well.
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Or maybe I'm being a bit pessimistic?
Yeah, just a bit.
Sure, it makes no sense to completely ignore real-world issues even in a fun thought experiment like this. But we might as well pretend that there WON'T be evil bureaucrats summoning men in black to hunt you down as soon as your power became known. Otherwise, almost ANY spell you choose is going to get you in trouble eventually.
One thing I think a lot of people are forgetting is that, except for cantrips, you only get to cast the spell once per day. That has a lot of limitations; for example, Fly would be a good choice, except for its 10-minute duration. That's not even enough for me to make it to work... even dashing to achieve 120ft/round only gets you just under 14mph. You'd need to live within 2 miles of work to use it like that--and even if you did, then at the end of the day, you're stuck at work with no car. That's not to say the spell would be totally worthless (especially since casting it at 9th level means you can affect seven people total,) just that it probably wouldn't be nearly as useful as some imagine.
I think a lot of people aren't thinking about the real world when making the choices. Perhaps I'm overthinking this exercise and it's just a matter of what you find fun. But if I'm not then I think some of you need to remember what world we live in. People learning you have a super power, is not going to end up well.
<snip>
Or maybe I'm being a bit pessimistic?
Yeah, just a bit.
Sure, it makes no sense to completely ignore real-world issues even in a fun thought experiment like this. But we might as well pretend that there WON'T be evil bureaucrats summoning men in black to hunt you down as soon as your power became known. Otherwise, almost ANY spell you choose is going to get you in trouble eventually.
One thing I think a lot of people are forgetting is that, except for cantrips, you only get to cast the spell once per day. That has a lot of limitations; for example, Fly would be a good choice, except for its 10-minute duration. That's not even enough for me to make it to work... even dashing to achieve 120ft/round only gets you just under 14mph. You'd need to live within 2 miles of work to use it like that--and even if you did, then at the end of the day, you're stuck at work with no car. That's not to say the spell would be totally worthless (especially since casting it at 9th level means you can affect seven people total,) just that it probably wouldn't be nearly as useful as some imagine.
That’s why I picked Unseen Servant. Ritual Casting, nearly infinite practical applications IRL, and its literally “unseen” so hard for the MIB to find it. Win/win/win.
One thing I think a lot of people are forgetting is that, except for cantrips, you only get to cast the spell once per day. That has a lot of limitations; for example, Fly would be a good choice, except for its 10-minute duration. That's not even enough for me to make it to work... even dashing to achieve 120ft/round only gets you just under 14mph. You'd need to live within 2 miles of work to use it like that--and even if you did, then at the end of the day, you're stuck at work with no car. That's not to say the spell would be totally worthless (especially since casting it at 9th level means you can affect seven people total,) just that it probably wouldn't be nearly as useful as some imagine.
That’s why I picked Unseen Servant. Ritual Casting, nearly infinite practical applications IRL, and its literally “unseen” so hard for the MIB to find it. Win/win/win.
For me True Polymorph was just to be able to essentially become a Changeling without actually being a Changeling. I could just change into a different human once every day.
If we're considering practicality, modern world compatability, as well as the once per day issue then I think the best bet is in the old Modern Magic UA.
Specifically: Find Vehicle.
8 hour duration can give you a once per day vehicle with which you are proficient (doubly so). By nature of the spell you are an expert in this vehicle's operation. You could theoretically conjure a formula one car and compete with some of the best races out there, but the whole "vanishes when the vehicle drops to 0 hp" would be very worrying for that kind of career choice.
Your single 9th level spell slot lets you upcast it at the highest it can be cast thus granting you "any type of vehicle, subject to the DM's approval."
So in this case where the Universe is our own and the DM is essentialy physics this grants you literally any vehicle that's physically possible. There's a lot of leeway with that.
Car, boat, tank, plane, helicopter, jetpack, rocket, spaceship etc. Yours for up to 8 hours at a time, once per day. Note that time limit makes space travel an inherently risky endeavor (which it already was) unless you stick to short duration suborbital flights.
It'd be the ultimate technological test bed for experimental vehicles as well... especially if you let other people risk their lives trying to pilot them.
But even if you go with something more conventional and practical like an ordinary car it's still a pretty good choice. It's no teleportation, but with your single spell slot you can make a return journey within 8 hours so it fits a daily commute and can help you run errands.
For me True Polymorph was just to be able to essentially become a Changeling without actually being a Changeling. I could just change into a different human once every day.
Shapechange is the spell you want if you're interested in changing your own shape.
True Polymorph is for when you're interested in permanently turning someone you don't like into a gastropod.
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Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
For me True Polymorph was just to be able to essentially become a Changeling without actually being a Changeling. I could just change into a different human once every day.
Shapechange is the spell you want if you're interested in changing your own shape.
True Polymorph is for when you're interested in permanently turning someone you don't like into a gastropod.
Shapechange only lasts for 1 hour. I would want it to be permanent (excluding casting it again) - and the only way to do that would be with True Polymorph.
And that's not even considering the vastly different costs in materials.
I was thinking casting clone on people going to mars or other planets and then send their clones to mars. It seems like the clones don't require oxygen, food, water, or space to move around.
Or see what happens when you go into a blackhole. So maybe we can build wormholes or time travel, it would improve science.
You seem to have confused Clone with Simulacrum. A clone requires no food, water, or oxygen while it's inert. But once it's activated by the original dying and the original's soul inhabiting the clone, it requires all the same things the original did.
So you could clone someone and then send the original to Mars, using the clone as backup, but sending the clone wouldn't accomplish anything.
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"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Being able to create a clone of yourself in 120 days, so around four months, would be tons of fun. The spell also states that the clone can become a younger version of the creator, which would also be incredible. The spell does have expensive material components ( a cubic inch of flesh of the person being cloned, a coffin or other vessel worth at least 2000gp with a sealable lid and a diamond worth at least 1000 gp). As a potential path to immortality if one is wealthy enough, this definetly does appeal to me.
so thats my choice.
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No you send the inert clone, then when the clones get to mars or other planet. Then the people who have still been living their lives die and wake up on mars. A kind of stasis, i think the bigger issue is what do you do if a person dies before they get to where you are going? That would be a problem for people who can actually cast that spell.
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Prestidigitation. that is all.
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After careful consideration: Shapechange.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Nice choice.
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I don't even want that. I want prestidigitation so I can be lazy about cleaning stuff in the house and I can actually eat healthy food by just reflavoring it. any other benefit of Prestidigitation beyond that is just gravy.
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Prestidigitation was my second choice after Unseen Servant way back on page one! So useful IRL.
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You'd just need a lot of diamonds.
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I think a lot of these choices are going more for cool factor than practicality. In the real world - things are exceedingly different than in the world of D&D where magic, however rare, is still known and normal.
True Resurrection requires what would be approximately $2.5 million worth of diamonds. That's going to be difficult to get and no, nobody is going to risk such on the possible off-chance you might be telling the truth if you claim you can resurrect people - since you won't be able to prove it until after you are given the diamonds. So, unless you're already filthy rich or get extremely lucky with the lottery, it will be, most likely, that you'd never be able to actually use this ability. Worse, still, is if you ever did use it and prove it. Sure many would think you're a messiah, others would see you a threat and others as an interest of scientific importance whose interest in your ability will go beyond their moral duty to not infringe on your rights. You'll end up swarmed by people, assassinated or abducted and experimented on.
True Polymorph you'll need to be careful about. You will likely only be able to use creatures in the real world - no changing into dragons - and since your mental scores are affected, using it on yourself is risky. Especially since it can end up permanent in a world where there is no dispel magic and you're not intelligent enough to hurt yourself enough to drop form without it carrying over to you - noting that you're not a hero of D&D with insane hit points : you're basically a Commoner who just so happens to cast one spell per day. Turning people into objects or animals could be fun if done as pranks. But that novelty will wear off, so using this aspect of it becomes situational unless morality isn't a concern for you.
Clone would be a key to immortality if you could afford it. You can "sell" this pseudo immortality to the rich, but now you'd just revealed to the world (secrets only last so long when they're big like this) what you can do. You'll get filthy rich. Then you'd disappear to become some bad person's slave and ticket to longevity - whether you want to be or not, and by this point they'll have studied you and tracked you learning that it takes 120 days for clones to mature, and where you've likely hid yours. Or maybe abducted by those who want to learn how you do what you do. They'll torture you until you make a clone of yourself, having tracked all your others, and then when that clone is mature, they'll dissect you. Repeat ad nauseum until they somehow learn it (unlikely) or give up and just get rid of you. Even if not abducted, the idea you can safeguard their enemies means somebody will find you a threat and remove you. Even ignoring all of that, it also requires a cubic inch of flesh. That's flesh, not just a vial of blood or something. An ear, an eye, a finger, a big toe, etc. Hacking off a piece of yourself is quite a limit - and yeah, immortality seems great - but you'll need to hide that immortality and in world with growing surveillance, social media and facial recognition software plus nearly every square inch being photographed from space - good luck staying hidden without being some reclusive hermit - and in that case, what is the point of eternal life if you spend it in the same place? If you're keeping it a secret to avoid the crapfest mentioned above, how will you acquire the wealth to also gran immortality to somebody you love? If you can't, you'll watch friends, family and more all age and die. Even if you can grant immortality to them - where do you draw the line? Your great-great-great-great children? Unless everyone takes a vow of celibacy, this little immortal clan is just going to keep growing non-stop. until discovery (bad). Or you don't make them all immortal and have to make the choice to let them die. One day you're going to want to die, and at that point you have to tell those people you're going to take away their immortality. And it will happen. We're not built for immortality. At some point life will stop being worth it. It won't even be depression or anything, it would just be about, being ready.
Invulnerability - 10 mins of immunity to damage sounds great. Unfortunately, at approx $50,000 a go it may not be useful. Given that the material component literally doesn't exist you'll never use this, making this arguably the most useless choice.
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I think a lot of people aren't thinking about the real world when making the choices. Perhaps I'm overthinking this exercise and it's just a matter of what you find fun. But if I'm not then I think some of you need to remember what world we live in. People learning you have a super power, is not going to end up well. We live in a world where in some places whether you are "a person" or "just property" is dependant on what genitals you're born with. We live in a world where who you love determines whether you're normal or get entire nations wanting you to suffer and die and even burn in whatever afterlife they have imagined. We live in a world where the amount of pigment in your skin determines how likely you are to be hated or even killed. We live in a world where people can't make a stand against injustice without some dickheads thinking it's an excuse to destroy lives, burn down businesses and hurt innocent people - even people who support the cause - all in in the name of said cause. We live in a world where if you're poor you are considered trash and trodden on, but if you are rich you get called evil and blamed for conspiracies.
So in this world, do you really think your super power is going to be welcomed? No. This world will want to break you, mind body and soul.
Or maybe I'm being a bit pessimistic?
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I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Regenerate, Reverse Gravity, Wind Walk, Modify Memory, or how about Continual Flame? Sure it's around $5k, but it lasts forever. Get solar panels in your basement, set alight with continual flame, and free clean unlimited safe electricity. A worthwhile investment, perhaps.
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You could probably set up a cult to acquire the $2.5 mil, or scam people. Once you have it, you can probably revive someone who will be grateful enough to gift you another 2.5 mil, and rinse and repeat. You could quickly start profiting enough to hire a private army, and really screw up the whole world.
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Yeah, just a bit.
Sure, it makes no sense to completely ignore real-world issues even in a fun thought experiment like this. But we might as well pretend that there WON'T be evil bureaucrats summoning men in black to hunt you down as soon as your power became known. Otherwise, almost ANY spell you choose is going to get you in trouble eventually.
One thing I think a lot of people are forgetting is that, except for cantrips, you only get to cast the spell once per day. That has a lot of limitations; for example, Fly would be a good choice, except for its 10-minute duration. That's not even enough for me to make it to work... even dashing to achieve 120ft/round only gets you just under 14mph. You'd need to live within 2 miles of work to use it like that--and even if you did, then at the end of the day, you're stuck at work with no car. That's not to say the spell would be totally worthless (especially since casting it at 9th level means you can affect seven people total,) just that it probably wouldn't be nearly as useful as some imagine.
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That’s why I picked Unseen Servant. Ritual Casting, nearly infinite practical applications IRL, and its literally “unseen” so hard for the MIB to find it. Win/win/win.
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For me True Polymorph was just to be able to essentially become a Changeling without actually being a Changeling. I could just change into a different human once every day.
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If we're considering practicality, modern world compatability, as well as the once per day issue then I think the best bet is in the old Modern Magic UA.
Specifically: Find Vehicle.
8 hour duration can give you a once per day vehicle with which you are proficient (doubly so). By nature of the spell you are an expert in this vehicle's operation.
You could theoretically conjure a formula one car and compete with some of the best races out there, but the whole "vanishes when the vehicle drops to 0 hp" would be very worrying for that kind of career choice.
Your single 9th level spell slot lets you upcast it at the highest it can be cast thus granting you "any type of vehicle, subject to the DM's approval."
So in this case where the Universe is our own and the DM is essentialy physics this grants you literally any vehicle that's physically possible. There's a lot of leeway with that.
Car, boat, tank, plane, helicopter, jetpack, rocket, spaceship etc. Yours for up to 8 hours at a time, once per day. Note that time limit makes space travel an inherently risky endeavor (which it already was) unless you stick to short duration suborbital flights.
It'd be the ultimate technological test bed for experimental vehicles as well... especially if you let other people risk their lives trying to pilot them.
But even if you go with something more conventional and practical like an ordinary car it's still a pretty good choice. It's no teleportation, but with your single spell slot you can make a return journey within 8 hours so it fits a daily commute and can help you run errands.
Shapechange is the spell you want if you're interested in changing your own shape.
True Polymorph is for when you're interested in permanently turning someone you don't like into a gastropod.
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Shapechange only lasts for 1 hour. I would want it to be permanent (excluding casting it again) - and the only way to do that would be with True Polymorph.
And that's not even considering the vastly different costs in materials.
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I was thinking casting clone on people going to mars or other planets and then send their clones to mars. It seems like the clones don't require oxygen, food, water, or space to move around.
Or see what happens when you go into a blackhole. So maybe we can build wormholes or time travel, it would improve science.
You seem to have confused Clone with Simulacrum. A clone requires no food, water, or oxygen while it's inert. But once it's activated by the original dying and the original's soul inhabiting the clone, it requires all the same things the original did.
So you could clone someone and then send the original to Mars, using the clone as backup, but sending the clone wouldn't accomplish anything.
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i would choose Clone.
Being able to create a clone of yourself in 120 days, so around four months, would be tons of fun. The spell also states that the clone can become a younger version of the creator, which would also be incredible. The spell does have expensive material components ( a cubic inch of flesh of the person being cloned, a coffin or other vessel worth at least 2000gp with a sealable lid and a diamond worth at least 1000 gp). As a potential path to immortality if one is wealthy enough, this definetly does appeal to me.
so thats my choice.
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No you send the inert clone, then when the clones get to mars or other planet. Then the people who have still been living their lives die and wake up on mars. A kind of stasis, i think the bigger issue is what do you do if a person dies before they get to where you are going? That would be a problem for people who can actually cast that spell.