No, see spectral hand

Essentially you’ve neglected time and distance. It would take a minute which is traditionally 10 rounds of combat, so it’s not quick at all. And the hand can’t move more than 30ft away, this is drastically less than the 3,175,200 meters needed in a linear path, and if you try using angular momentum you’d be trying to aim when to release while going over 5555 rotations per second. If the players can overcome these issues they should definitely be able to.

Wonder if a DM would let you just have it so it's passively cast so it can carry 10lbs of weight for you nonstop without having to recast every minute.

Probably not tbh.

Also love how a bad of holding is set specifically at 15lbs, and this spell is probably one reason why.

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 don't think anyone has brought this up, but can you see through the hand? what I mean to say is, can you use it to scout a room/ hallway/ whatever to know what is going on in that space?

Does the hand provide Haptic feedback?  I.E. can it "feel" things?  I would think you'd need to, to use it with any level of dexterity.  Otherwise you'd crush delicate items when you picked them up.  But what aboput temperature?  Can you use it to carry a burning coal over to some curtains?  If not, then can you damage yourself by plunging the hand into fire, ice, acid, etc?

It moves 30 feet per round (6 seconds).  Non-lethal by any measure

Could you pull someone off the stool they were sitting on with this if said person was a child?

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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?  

 

Was thinking on this question and Mage Hand in general after yesterday's session where a Sorcerer with a strong prankster streak wanted to either "pants" an adversary or pull their jacket down to their elbows.  In the moment I ruled no as the adversary in question was already engaged in melee with two other PCs, and the orientation of all the characters didn't allow for the line of sight to be maintained.  I haven't come up with a definitive decision on whether to allow such moves if the sight line was clear, but here's what I've been thinking so far:

Re: "bombing" I think there's some allowance for it depending on what precedent the game has had in instances where a mage hand caster loses their concentration.  That is, if the mage hand was carrying an object and the caster is disrupted, does the spell presume the object is set to a resting state, or does it simply "drop."  That said, holding something over which you only have line of sight control directly over an object or adversary below it is no simple feat, harder than regular archery or missile projection.  So it would probably at least be at disadvantage, and probably a buffed AC to the target if their moving.  This may be moot though when you're talking about alchemist fire or other area of effect Molotov cocktail type equivalents.

As for transport, set and knock trap gimmicks.  While I give mage hand a pass in its rogue applications (in my experience IRL, without a specialized lock picking device lock picking is a two hand job), I am firm about mage hand doing only one handed manual tasks.  So carrying the trap, sure.  Setting the trap?  Most traps IRL are a two handed job, even something as simple as a mouse trap.  I suppose it's possible to set the trap manually and try to mage hand it to the place you want it set, but that would require some real deft handling.  

I think a lot of players want mage hand to be telekinesis.  There's a reason telekinesis is a 5th level spell and mage hand is a cantrip.  With those scales in mind, should help most DMs arbitrate. 

As for the clothes pranking.  I think I'd allow an attempt to tug pants or jacket, but it would be a pretty easy grapple test on the adversary to free oneself up.  Tying shoes together, too sophisticated and a two hand job.  Could two casters both use mage hand in concert to untie shoes and the like?  Maybe but the amount of practice two minds would have to perform so that they can work like the hands of one mind might make it a bit too difficult to do on the fly unless the casters are explicitly a Penn and Teller duo who specializes in such tricks.

 

Probably just DM discretion, but could a sorcerer use metamagic to twin this spell, then perform a 2 handed job?  FWIW: My hafling sorcerer would absolutely spend the sorcerer point to twin MH so he could fly 2 middle fingers...

used this to open a lock lmao. my teacher somehow allowed it? lmao. 

what if "cant attack" means "it doesn't want to attack"?

Edit: this is in response to the argument of mage hand dealing damage.

How big is the hand?

Can mage hand perform the general help action? Like aiding another player in a basic task (not combat related) giving them advantage in said task?

Because that's not how strength works. Find a child whos muscles have developed just to the point of being able to lift 10 lbs and ask them to throw something and see how well that works

You need to spend last time with your "Mage Hand" if you know what I mean brother 

Could the hand be used as a distraction to break concentration? For instance, tickling or startling the spellcaster?

super cool

If the limit of the hand is “Lift an object of 10 pounds” it seems unlikely that it could throw something faster than a person who can only lift 10 pounds. Spells are written to be clearly understood, not in MTG Oracle text clarifying every possible combination of rules. Anyone who wants to nitpick rules should be also like dealing with encumbrance and fitting things into their pack, coin weight, and how much wear your shoes take with all the long walks.

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Also nothing in the text says it is invisible which people seem to keep implying. Spectral does not mean invisible. Quite the contrary its visible just ghostly in appearance.  If you want to do all these other things get bigby's hand. 

I know this is an older post, but just wanted to throw this out there.  I agree with all the points of trying to hack Mage Hand, as they are neither RAW or RAI.

But just to touch on the last bit, the Mage Hand can be invisible if you (a) are an Arcane Trickster, (b) are a Githyanki or Githzerai, or (c) take the Telekinetic feat.  Note that for (c) the range is also extended to 60ft if you previously had the cantrip.

For most of the discussion on the invisible aspect, most of the discussion was around Arcane Tricksters, but there's actually, as you can see, a number of ways to get an invisible mage hand.

Here is a fun fact mage hand is capable of traveling from any area in range to another the range itself is a 30ft sphere around you so it can travel from 30ft behind you to 30ft in front of you giving it a movement of 60ft base

Now for my opinion I think that mage hand would be able to carry beyond 10lbs maybe your spell mod multiplied by 5 and/or it should be able to make a ranged improvised weapon attack at disadvantage sense it is unattached from you and you don’t have the proper angle.