Am I reading this right? A player can create a 10 foot cube at 6th level at a distance of 30 feet. What is to stop a player from making a 10-foot cube of tungsten 30 ft above a boss and dropping it? Or even a 10-foot cube of molten lava (technically its a mineral) and dropping it on a bunch of drow?
Tungsten isn't generally considered a "precious" metal, and what you create has to be "of a form and material that you have seen before," so you'd have to have seen a 10-foot cube of tungsten anyways.
According to our good friend Oxford, stone is "hard solid nonmetallic mineral matter" while lava is "hot molten or semifluid rock," so I wouldn't put it under the "stone" category, and it doesn't really fit anywhere else.
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Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny. Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
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D&D is a social game, bound by the social compact of “don’t act in a way that makes the game less fun for everyone.” Things like linked Creation shenanigans of this nature, teleportation circles with one end at the bottom of a body of water, infinite clone spells, etc. all violate the social compact by giving you cheesy ways to solve problems other players might want to actually play against.
On top of that, this is hardly an original idea—there have been thousands of players who have already had this idea, so you likely will not even get “that was a clever use of the spell” credit from your other players.
Finally, if you start using spells like this, your DM absolutely should retaliate by doing the same exact thing to you.
All told, under rules as written, nothing is stopping you (assuming you’ve seen such an item before—presumably you could use an iron statue or something in place of your unrealistic items). But if you want to keep playing D&D, and not seen like you are engaging in a pretty cliché troll move, you should think twice before doing something like this… and, if you are in a group where you can get away with this, be prepared to have started a campaign-ruining arms race.
If you could decide the temperature of conjured matter, it would say so. And conjuring a 5x5 block of weapons grade plutonium - or whatever - doesn't do any more damage than conjuring a 5x5 block of rock, or wood: Falling damage for 30 feet.
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Am I reading this right? A player can create a 10 foot cube at 6th level at a distance of 30 feet. What is to stop a player from making a 10-foot cube of tungsten 30 ft above a boss and dropping it? Or even a 10-foot cube of molten lava (technically its a mineral) and dropping it on a bunch of drow?
Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny.
Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
How I'm posting based on text formatting: Mod Hat Off - Mod Hat Also Off (I'm not a mod)
D&D is a social game, bound by the social compact of “don’t act in a way that makes the game less fun for everyone.” Things like linked Creation shenanigans of this nature, teleportation circles with one end at the bottom of a body of water, infinite clone spells, etc. all violate the social compact by giving you cheesy ways to solve problems other players might want to actually play against.
On top of that, this is hardly an original idea—there have been thousands of players who have already had this idea, so you likely will not even get “that was a clever use of the spell” credit from your other players.
Finally, if you start using spells like this, your DM absolutely should retaliate by doing the same exact thing to you.
All told, under rules as written, nothing is stopping you (assuming you’ve seen such an item before—presumably you could use an iron statue or something in place of your unrealistic items). But if you want to keep playing D&D, and not seen like you are engaging in a pretty cliché troll move, you should think twice before doing something like this… and, if you are in a group where you can get away with this, be prepared to have started a campaign-ruining arms race.
If you could decide the temperature of conjured matter, it would say so. And conjuring a 5x5 block of weapons grade plutonium - or whatever - doesn't do any more damage than conjuring a 5x5 block of rock, or wood: Falling damage for 30 feet.
Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.