Mage Hand

To bad you can't attack. It's spectral so going inside someone and squeezing there heart would be insane

Could someone summon it inside someone’s throat and making a fist to suffocate a creature? It’s not attacking, moving any sort of object, wielding any weapon. The RAW are a point of you choosing within range. 

As far as i can see there is no way to 'Kill' the hand. So if you put the mage hand into someones mouth they are unable to cast spells with the verbal component unless they run 30ft away from you. Am i missing anything here?

no, but i think it would be possible to use the hand to reload it. Or at the very least help reloading it.

Use the ready action before combat to make the hand move into the path of the first attack made before your first turn by an enemy. 

Trigger:  An enemy begins to swing their weapon.

Response: Cast mage hand so that the hand gets hit    instead of you, thus preventing you from taking damage.

To what yesah1234567 said:   That would be making an attack, and it says that the hand cannot attack, so that would sadly not be possible.  However, if you were to aim the pistol with mage hand and hit the trigger with, for example, a fire bolt, you could still shoot someone, it would just take two actions.  Also may blow up the pistol.

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Someone explain the difference between an arcane trickster (rogue) with mage hand cantrip and a rogue (not arcane trickster) with magical initiative feat (bard) and access to the mage hand cantrip?

Pretend both are proficient in stealth, slight of hand and theives tools at level 20, full dex stat.

Although both can cast mage hand, arcane tricksters can make it invisible.

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Can you pick up a 10 pound rock, lift it 30 feet in the air and drop it on an opponent directly in front of you? Not an attack, per se.  Can you direct the hand to carry a trap over to an closed doorway, set the trap, and then knock on the door?  

 
You could consider this the object “Falling onto a Creature” as described in Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, forcing the target to make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or be impacted by the rock, taking half of the fall damage while the rock takes the other half, thus dealing up to 3d6 divided by 2 bludgeoning damage if the target fails its save.  But only a Chaotic Evil character would have so little mercy on the poor rock!

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Can you actually change the shape of the hand? Like give it claws or something? Simply for aesthetic reason

 
As said in Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, you can modify the appearance of a spell as long as it doesn’t affect the statistics of the spell or make it look like another spell.

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Does anyone know if a Mage Hand has force feedback? In other words, if you wave it through a space that appears to be empty, but is occupied by something invisible, would the caster know if the hand had met an obstruction? In this case the Mage Hand is invisible, since it's gained through the Telekinetic Feat.

 
My thoughts exactly.

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So my Cleric has the healer feat, and plans to get telekinesis at his next ASI. 

So with a healer kit and feat, one can "heal" a number of hit points. Mage hand can manipulate an object, like a healer kit. 

Is this not a spell slot less healing word? 

PS, I think that there will be two turn set up (casting mage hand, then using the kit). But RAW, there is no range on a healer kit to begin with so....

 

 
I know that at least in the 2024 Player’s Handbook version, the feat specifies “within 5 feet” of you, so sadly no.

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As an Arcane Trickster Rogue, I was wondering if I could use Mage Hand to handle the ammunition aspect if I was using a Hand Crossbow in one hand, and a Rapier in the other. With the Crossbow Expert feat, the loading is ignored:

• You ignore the loading property of crossbows with which you are proficient.
• Being within 5 feet of a hostile creature doesn’t impose disadvantage on your ranged attack rolls.
• When you use the Attack action and attack with a one-handed weapon, you can use a bonus action to attack with a hand crossbow you are holding.

So can the Mage Hand act as the ammunition support so I can use a Rapier in my other hand for the Defensive Dueling feat?

• When you are wielding a finesse weapon with which you are proficient and another creature hits you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to add your proficiency bonus to your AC for that attack, potentially causing the attack to miss you.

 
I think that it would probably work.

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Would it be possible to summon this in somebodys bloodstream and just, stop the flow of blood throughout their entire body or would I need wall of force for that

 
Wall of force is still way too broken, thought, for a variety of other reasons.

I made a homebrew metamagic option called "Reactive spell". ***Reactive Spell (3/Day):***  When he or another creature is targeted by an enemy, James can use his reaction to immediately cast a spell in response. The spell he casts must have a casting time of 1 Action or 1 Bonus Action and cannot deal damage directly. 

Do I need the telekinetic feat to use mage hand to recreate the Kanan Jarrus missle redirection from Star Wars rebels?

Ah yes a good reminder of the time that a person in the school’s campaign found a way to drop a five foot cubed block of ice from 30 feet into the air in one turn

Good stuff. My only thought is the 30ft takes place on your action. Because initiative hasn't been done simultaneously in years. (Bring it back?) As a result would it then be going much much faster? Also nice that its a cantrip but I miss the days of it being able to deliver a touch spell. Maybe a house rule upcast option. Also while I love the game. Sometimes decisions are made for game balance. 

me and my Dnd group all agreed that mage hand, can’t affect living objects, and we also have decided that magic artifacts or also living objects. We decided to prevent us from using mimic to make magic items 

so can I like suffocate someone with this if I just block off their lungs or something?

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so can I like suffocate someone with this if I just block off their lungs or something?

 
No. For [pick your reason].

1 - The spell explicitly states it can’t be used to do an attack. Grabbing a creature is an attack action (see Grapple). So no “squeezing” brains, throats, organs, etc.

2 - The hand is spectral, which means it has no corporeal attributes on its own, unless you use an action to make it interact with an object. Creatures are not Objects. Brains inside of creatures are not objects. They are part of the creature.

3. Nothing in the spell description states that the hand becomes “solid” while doing any of its allowed movements or actions. You are inferring this because YOUR hands are solid and that’s the only frame of reference you have. The hand doesn’t work like a traditional physical hand, it works through “Magic”.

My personal favorite No explanation at the table is: “You can certainly manifest the hand inside a creature, but it’s harmless, since the hand cannot interact with creatures. And it just cost you your action to do so.”

Alternatively: “Yeah. You can use MH to instakill a creature. But if you can do it, so can your enemies. Gonna suck real bad when your party finds your corpse in the morning because an Arcane Trickster you didn’t know was outside your room at the inn created a MH inside your chest as you slept.”

The rules say NOTHING about just holding the handle of a two-hand weapon. Two-hand weapons need two hands, so placing a mage hand counts as one hand, and your character uses one of they're hands. Your character is swinging the weapon, the mage hand is just holding on.

This way you can have a one armed character use a two-hand weapon as long as it is not over 10lbs.