Level
Cantrip
Casting Time
1 Action
Range/Area
30 ft
Components
V, S
Duration
Instantaneous
School
Transmutation
Attack/Save
None
Damage/Effect
Control
Whispering to the spirits of nature, you create one of the following effects within range:
- You create a tiny, harmless sensory effect that predicts what the weather will be at your location for the next 24 hours. The effect might manifest as a golden orb for clear skies, a cloud for rain, falling snowflakes for snow, and so on. This effect persists for 1 round.
- You instantly make a flower blossom, a seed pod open, or a leaf bud bloom.
- You create an instantaneous, harmless sensory effect, such as falling leaves, a puff of wind, the sound of a small animal, or the faint odor of skunk. The effect must fit in a 5-foot cube.
- You instantly light or snuff out a candle, a torch, or a small campfire.
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Posted Aug 7, 2023They're primarily roleplaying cantrips; they let you character do a bunch of little things to make their lives easier, and can sometimes situationally be useful against creatures with a bit of creativity. Minor illusion can create better visual or auditory illusions (as you'd expect), but can it warm your clothes when it's cold? Clean them when they're dirty? Light candles? Predict the weather? Create smells? Change the flavour of someone's food and drink to mess with them?
These cantrips are at their best with a creative player who loves to find clever and unexpected ways to use a cantrip; prestidigitation is the "I'm too powerful a mage to do this using my own hands" cantrip, druidcraft is the same but for druids, and thaumaturgy is the same for clerics. I got both prestidigitation and thaumaturgy on a tiefling bard of mine, and also on a dragonborn sorcerer (got thaumaturgy via a feat) and I always had a blast coming up with ways to use them. There was always something fun about the sorcerer who won't lift a finger to open a door because magic can simply throw it open as he approaches, and slam it shut after he passes through, his gear was always immaculate, and despite only wearing trousers and a cape, he was never cold.
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Posted Mar 17, 2024Ah, the good old "summon weather" spell...
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Posted Apr 10, 2024What I've seen the cantrip effectively used to do is this:
The druid collects plant samples, rare mosses, acorns, etc. as they travel. When they return to their personal space (whether it be a garden, a home with a flower box, etc.), they use the second effect of druidcraft to start the spores, acorn, or seed to grow. It can be effective if you know that a specific plant has medicinal purposes or can be made into a toxin.