Level
Cantrip
Casting Time
1 Action
Range/Area
10 ft.
Components
V, S
Duration
1 Hour
School
Transmutation
Attack/Save
None
Damage/Effect
Utility
This spell is a minor magical trick that novice spellcasters use for practice. You create one of the following magical effects within range:
- You create an instantaneous, harmless sensory effect, such as a shower of sparks, a puff of wind, faint musical notes, or an odd odor.
- You instantaneously light or snuff out a candle, a torch, or a small campfire.
- You instantaneously clean or soil an object no larger than 1 cubic foot.
- You chill, warm, or flavor up to 1 cubic foot of nonliving material for 1 hour.
- You make a color, a small mark, or a symbol appear on an object or a surface for 1 hour.
- You create a nonmagical trinket or an illusory image that can fit in your hand and that lasts until the end of your next turn.
If you cast this spell multiple times, you can have up to three of its non-instantaneous effects active at a time, and you can dismiss such an effect as an action.
A trinket is typically a small item, maybe collectible, and it's mostly to give a little flavor or roleplay opportunity to your character. It's likely not able to count as a standard weapon.
so do i roll from the trinket table
Press Ti (like TIm) Dig (like DIGital) I (Imitate) GI (JIm) Tation (noTATION)
more than half of those step outside the spells effects and step on the toes of other spells. @mymswell
In a world where every magician has access to this simplest of spells, how does it actually fool anyone? I mean this is taught to first year magic students. Magic shows would have really, really tough crowds in DNDland. Guards wouldn't fall for fake IDs because they'd all know that anyone can just magic up a nonmagical trinket every six seconds of their waking hours. It is simple so it would be expected, so it shouldn't be used often because the caster would know it's expected, making its use a Vizzini Paradox. The more I think about it, the more the meta-implications of this basic-rules-of-physics-breaking level 0 spell are best left uncontemplated.
I just used this to make the ground taste like a warm steak.
Could you use "create a non-magical trinket" to create a box of ammo? If so could you even use the ammo?
This can be used as a nuke because it doesn't specifically say how hot we can make an object. So, we heat someone up to 1000 degrees Celsius, snap our fingers for dramatic effect, and watch them turn to ash. Therefore, We Are Inevitable. And this can be used for music in the background when the campaign isn't feeling fantasy enough.
What?!?!? This is so stupid it's a viable plan LOL
This spell is much more powerful than meteor swarm, it makes all direct damage spells look infantile in comparison. Think tsar-bomba but bigger no needing to wait for high level spells to break the game when a intimatter ring can do it so much faster, such a thing is non-magical and a trinket, just not one us baryonic folk can touch without removing all life in a many kilometer radius around us from existence, and possibly creating a nuclear-winter type weather pattern afterwards.
People keep saying that you aren't able to make material components using this spell "because it's an illusory effect."
So yes, you are making something that does actually, physically exist. It is the object. Make a horn, you can squeeze it. make a $1000 diamond ring, it's there. for six seconds, sure. But it's a real object.
and if you need any more proof that this isn't an illusion, just look at the spell's school. It's not even an illusion spell to begin with. it's transmutation. just like goodberry. Any illusory effects are extra added bits, not the transmutation.
my advice: tell your DM this is possible, and promise not to use it unless you're in a TPK situation or you're using it on a spell nobody cares about like Light.
my friends and i are doing the curse of Stahd, I'm a bard and my homie is a cleric, tonight is our 14th session and I'm going use prestidigitation to make it appear that he shat himself...
I also used it to make his blood taste like doodoo when a vampire spawn was drinking him like a capri sun
Would it be out of bounds to change a clerics robes a color with one use and add a symbol with a second use? An actor sometimes plays in borrowed clothes. It just doesn’t really define a volume like it does to soil or clean.
If I were running the game, yes. Cause thats hilarious.
Check with your gm, thats definitely not RAW
My DM says money in his campaign all has the same size and width. Can I make a copper or even a custom tin token made in the shape of coin look and/or feel like a platinum coin? Or would that be better done with minor illusion/ silent image?