What if I lift a 10 pounds rock with it, then hover it 30 feet above my opponent and drop it? The rules does support fall damage, but applied to living creatures. Inanimate objects do have AC (a rock would have AC 17), but I imagine if its possible to convert or apply damage that way. Personally, I would take the 1d6 per 10ft fall damage as a base damage and take the AC same as an ability score, in therms of modifier, adding +3 to the damage roll (due to 16 and 17 giving +3 modifier). Logically speaking, dropping a fogging rock on someone's head is indeed an attack, but gravity would be the culprit at the end, so if a player brings this to my campaign, I'd rather praise them for being smart than punishing them being strict to the rules...

Edit: I read some comments before mine, of course the target could do a DEX saving throw, only taking the damage at a fail.

I believe that qualifies as an attack is why

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