let's say we have some random dude named Sleety Bob who runs a cult and uses the cult fanatic stat block. Let us also say that among his herd of loyal followers, he has three which use the acolyte stat block from the monster manual. Lastly let us say that the cult has somehow managed to aquire an mostly unused candle of invocation and knows exactly what it does.
actiual concept:
say all four of them prepare create/ destroy water, all four of them are in the candle's radious and all four of them do nothing but cast create/ destroy water over and over and over again, they could each cast the spell 10 times per minute and thus 600 times per hour with each casting creating or destroying 10 galons of water, would this be enough to rapidly drain say a medium sized lake or would it not really have much of an impact on the water level? If the party was dedicated to the gimmic, do you think this could feasably be performed by players if they all decided to dip just one level into cleric or druid and they all decided to share alignment (something that is pretty unlikely)
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Lakes have A LOT more water than most people think! Think of it this way, an Olympic swimming pool fits like 600,000 gallons. So even that would take like 4+ days to drain with that method. A LAKE is WAAAAAAY bigger (unless you mean like a small pond or something) easily surpassing millions of gallons. So I wouldn't worry about your party draining the lake too much lol
I googled the average lake volume and found 325851 gallons. The method described can drain 24000 gallons per person per candle. So it would take 14 people to drain an average or below sized lake.
I googled the average lake volume and found 325851 gallons. The method described can drain 24000 gallons per person per candle. So it would take 14 people to drain an average or below sized lake.
Fun-fact! That's the exact volume of an Acre-foot. So if his lake is exactly 1 acre, and 1 foot deep, then yes! And idk about other lakes but the ones around me are usually several thousand acres and much deeper than 1 foot.
I promise I'm not trying to be obnoxious! I'm a Biology/Environmental science teacher who did a lot of research on ponds/lakes in college lol. That and I had a similar situation in a DnD game when people tried to flood a room with create water. A gallon of water is not nearly as big as most people think, which leads to bodies of water having WAY more water than people realize
As a comparison, an acre is 43,560 Square Feet. Your average Wal-mart Supercenter is 180,000 SF. So that is a lake less than a 1/4 the size of a walmart and only 1' deep.
A lake 1/2 mile by 1/2 mile is 160 acres. Assuming its average depth is 30 feet, thats 4800 acre-feet, or 1.5 billion gallons, and that's not a large lake (probably wouldn't even have a wikipedia page if it was on Earth)
A lake like the Dead Sea in Israel, while very large (31 miles by 9 miles, average 650 feet deep), is not huge by any global standard, but holds 30 Trillion Gallons (roughly)
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in game setup:
let's say we have some random dude named Sleety Bob who runs a cult and uses the cult fanatic stat block. Let us also say that among his herd of loyal followers, he has three which use the acolyte stat block from the monster manual. Lastly let us say that the cult has somehow managed to aquire an mostly unused candle of invocation and knows exactly what it does.
actiual concept:
say all four of them prepare create/ destroy water, all four of them are in the candle's radious and all four of them do nothing but cast create/ destroy water over and over and over again, they could each cast the spell 10 times per minute and thus 600 times per hour with each casting creating or destroying 10 galons of water, would this be enough to rapidly drain say a medium sized lake or would it not really have much of an impact on the water level? If the party was dedicated to the gimmic, do you think this could feasably be performed by players if they all decided to dip just one level into cleric or druid and they all decided to share alignment (something that is pretty unlikely)
i am soup, with too many ideas (all of them very spicy) who has made sufficient homebrew material and character to last an thousand human lifetimes
Lakes have A LOT more water than most people think! Think of it this way, an Olympic swimming pool fits like 600,000 gallons. So even that would take like 4+ days to drain with that method. A LAKE is WAAAAAAY bigger (unless you mean like a small pond or something) easily surpassing millions of gallons. So I wouldn't worry about your party draining the lake too much lol
I googled the average lake volume and found 325851 gallons. The method described can drain 24000 gallons per person per candle. So it would take 14 people to drain an average or below sized lake.
Fun-fact! That's the exact volume of an Acre-foot. So if his lake is exactly 1 acre, and 1 foot deep, then yes! And idk about other lakes but the ones around me are usually several thousand acres and much deeper than 1 foot.
I promise I'm not trying to be obnoxious! I'm a Biology/Environmental science teacher who did a lot of research on ponds/lakes in college lol. That and I had a similar situation in a DnD game when people tried to flood a room with create water. A gallon of water is not nearly as big as most people think, which leads to bodies of water having WAY more water than people realize
As a comparison, an acre is 43,560 Square Feet. Your average Wal-mart Supercenter is 180,000 SF. So that is a lake less than a 1/4 the size of a walmart and only 1' deep.
A lake 1/2 mile by 1/2 mile is 160 acres. Assuming its average depth is 30 feet, thats 4800 acre-feet, or 1.5 billion gallons, and that's not a large lake (probably wouldn't even have a wikipedia page if it was on Earth)
A lake like the Dead Sea in Israel, while very large (31 miles by 9 miles, average 650 feet deep), is not huge by any global standard, but holds 30 Trillion Gallons (roughly)