Draft horses and warhorses weigh 540 lbs (while real-world shire horses can weigh 1870 to 2430 lb) and Elephants weigh 1,320 lb (while real-world elephants can weigh about 12,000 pounds).
Even with 5e targets, that's the potential weight of 27,000 and 66,000 coins respectively.
66,000 platinum pieces would pay the wages of a 5e skilled worker for 900 years.
Something arguably could be figured out. If a weight for weight production of platinum was allowed, enough elephants and an hour of work each day would, in a year, give 328,500 years of skilled worker wages.
As far as threats to elephants are concerned, the ivory trade is nothing.
Also, to get even richer you can turn it into mithral of adamant because both of these materials are worth a lot more than platinum. Another use for the spell is to turn things into diamonds to be able to cast spells like raise dead more easily.
True polymorph does not work or at least is seriously flawed as a money-making strategy.
"... You transform the creature into a different creature, the creatureinto a nonmagical object, or the object into a creature (the object must be neither worn nor carried by another creature). The spell lasts for the duration, or until the target drops to 0 hit points or dies. If you concentrate on this spell for the full duration, the spell lasts until it is dispelled. ..."
If a creature is turned into a metal object and then, say, beaten into a different form, it will revert back to its original form. The same will happen if someone dispels magic or applies an anti-magic effect,
my character and co awoke this red dragon because we needed lore he then flew and devoured his cultist, the towns folk saw this and cause a panic house prices dropped and we bought a house and then sold it at a profit
3. charm it somehow to cut it's hair with the scissors
4. sell the gold/platinum/adamantine hairs on the market
5. live in high luxury
I know this post is old but gather the adimantine hairs until you have enough to use fabricate to make adimantine armour.
For the post above, polymorph a bandit into a bar of gold, cast disguise self on yourself and arcanist's magic aura so that someone buys a bandit bar and realizes its polymorphed only when you have run off, and if they use some detection thing and once the aura has worn off
Of 5e mounts:
Draft horses and warhorses weigh 540 lbs (while real-world shire horses can weigh 1870 to 2430 lb) and
Elephants weigh 1,320 lb (while real-world elephants can weigh about 12,000 pounds).
Even with 5e targets, that's the potential weight of 27,000 and 66,000 coins respectively.
66,000 platinum pieces would pay the wages of a 5e skilled worker for 900 years.
But the weight changes when the creature changes to the metal. That would have to figured out, too.
Paladin main who spends most of his D&D time worldbuilding or DMing, not Paladin-ing.
Something arguably could be figured out. If a weight for weight production of platinum was allowed, enough elephants and an hour of work each day would, in a year, give 328,500 years of skilled worker wages.
As far as threats to elephants are concerned, the ivory trade is nothing.
It doesn't actually reduce the number of elephants because the spell makes more whenever you cast it.
Also, to get even richer you can turn it into mithral of adamant because both of these materials are worth a lot more than platinum. Another use for the spell is to turn things into diamonds to be able to cast spells like raise dead more easily.
True polymorph does not work or at least is seriously flawed as a money-making strategy.
"... You transform the creature into a different creature, the creature into a nonmagical object, or the object into a creature (the object must be neither worn nor carried by another creature). The spell lasts for the duration, or until the target drops to 0 hit points or dies. If you concentrate on this spell for the full duration, the spell lasts until it is dispelled. ..."
If a creature is turned into a metal object and then, say, beaten into a different form, it will revert back to its original form. The same will happen if someone dispels magic or applies an anti-magic effect,
I know this post is old but gather the adimantine hairs until you have enough to use fabricate to make adimantine armour.
For the post above, polymorph a bandit into a bar of gold, cast disguise self on yourself and arcanist's magic aura so that someone buys a bandit bar and realizes its polymorphed only when you have run off, and if they use some detection thing and once the aura has worn off
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