"Im going to shit yourself" the spell!

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I have a player that's going to make a magician-type wizard. Top hat, cape, pulling rabbits out of his hat, that sort of thing. He wants to use Prestidigitation to pull rabbits out of his hat and make them move, likely to distract (dumb) targets. Would he be able to use the last line of the cantrip ("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.") to create a rabbit that moves?

I was thinking of using the rules of the cantrip is guardrails. Meaning, the rabbit can only move as far as the range of the spell, and can only last 6 seconds (the end of your next turn part). What would you guys do?

 For the "rabbit out of a hat," trick, you can cast find familiar.  Your familiar can be a rabbit.  

The "Nonmagical trinket" is a fully physical item for the duration of the spell? For example... Plates and cutlery? :3

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The "Nonmagical trinket" is a fully physical item for the duration of the spell? For example... Plates and cutlery? :3

 It would probably be physical, but it only lasts until the end of your next turn, so around 6 seconds. So, cutlery? Yeah, if you're quick about it. Plate? It would have to fit in your hand, and you'd have to be VERY quick about it.

Making stuff dirty. 

Say that five times fast.

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A wizard in my party used presdigation on a dragon’s saliva. The dragon was about to kill him, he made the saliva taste like poo.

 This made me laugh way too hard. Just imagining this or thinking back to it makes me chuckle.

Jesus Christ this spell is useful. Want to make the king think someone's trying to poison him? Make his drink taste awful. This works especially well directly after, say, a taste tester's already taken a sip, as people used to do back when kings were a thing, to see if it was poisoned or not. Want to stay warm and cozy in a freezing winter setting? warm your clothes with nothing but a neck twitch and a clearing of the throat.

Or, my favorite, "I'm going to sh*t yourself," and then you soil their underwear.

You could survive without a problem in any desert, winter, or otherwise type of climate, and so long as your character or the DM rules soaked clothes as soiled, you'll always be dry (or wet, if you want to for whatever reason), warm, and you'll never have a problem with low-light situations or bland food. You could also give yourself advantage on basically any charisma check, in many ways, under many different situations, and combining this with something like control flames or find familiar, you'd be the perfect magician and dungeon crawler. Or, you could set someone on fire, set towns on fire, set your party members and their belongings on fire, completely block off parts of battlefields, and become the pyromaniac you always wanted to be. This spell has nearly endless uses, it's insanely powerful, and it only gets more overpowered with your creativity. If you wanted to get a tattoo, you could create an illusory image that's exactly what you want, assuming you had the skill and knowhow to do so. If you're in the setting of a magical school where any sort of written test was involved and you were within ten feet of it, you could change it, destroy it, and/or make it whatever you want. It synergizes so well with other spells, from end-game to cantrip, and so long as you think of this spell first, you'll probably never stop using it. Literally this and one damage dealing cantrip, and you will never need another spell.

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Can we please get Marisha or Matt on this pronunciation please?  I've gotten it right 0 times outta 100.

 lol.  Been there.  It happened only once, though not without bring several laffs to the table.     

Could I use this to heat my sword up to red hot?

There is a lot of creativity here.. But only sorcerers with Subtle Casting would be able to cast this unnoticed, right?!

Without that you would have to chant, as in Verbal Component. Whilst simultaneously waving at least one hand, as in Somatic component.

Also, this isn't a bonus action. It's an action. So it takes time. More than a few seconds of it. That means that if you target an attended object, that objects attendee get's to react (if they are aware). And, even if you are not using Verbal and Somatic Components, you still stand there, concentrating, perhaps making minute strange movemens, for more than a few seconds,  while focusing on the guards butt. He could  notice.

Conversely, if you used Quickened Casting (Sorcerer again) to reduce the cast time. Then you are still standing there Chanting and Waving, and the guard will definitely notice.

And remember that the range is 10 ft. That is a gap of about 3 meters.. it's not like it's easy to approach unnoticed. Or it's a safe distance from dragon tails, claws, and the like.

I don't mean to rain on this parade. It's just.. should it be this much of a parade in the first place?!

(And I can't believe that this spell (if read as intended) is supposed to be useable on attended objects (or surfaces.. nobody mentioned this.. but make the corneas, of the eyes, of a creature, opaque (color them pitch black, or pure white depending on your understanding of colors and light) and you effectively have a blinded creature.. oh my). It's just too broken that way).

So i have a question about this spell. Assuming the size restrictions aren't exceeded would you be able to make material components for spells that you cast the following turn (with a casting time of 1 action or bonus action) no matter the material cost?

"You instantaneously clean or soil an object no larger than 1 cubic foot"

Using this effect to clean dirty/bloody clothing and armor is the magical equivalent of doing the laundry. 

Now if this effect does not work on worn/carried items then the party would need to do a strip down while the caster(s) chain cast Prestidigitation to "do the laundry"

"the best spell use ever," totally not stolen from Runesmith on YouTube:

"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"

Create an egg, as a nonmagical trinket that fits in your hand. 

Throw the egg at a person. 

Before the egg hits, it disappears. 

The person looks around, confused at what has just happened, as there is no other evidence for something happening other than him catching it out of the corner of his eye.

He looks towards the source... you.

You reveal your hand, tucked behind your back. It holds an egg.

You throw it at him again, only for the same thing to happen.

The man is scared, and runs away.

You chase after him, hurling the disappearing eggs at him for all of eternity.

He will never know peace.

He will never forget the egg.

Couldn't you theoretically use prestidigitation to heat up an atom to nuclear fission levels of heat, since prestidigitation doesn't specify the temperature you warm an object to or a cap on temperature 

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"the best spell use ever," totally not stolen from Runesmith on YouTube:

"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"

Create an egg, as a nonmagical trinket that fits in your hand. 

Throw the egg at a person. 

Before the egg hits, it disappears. 

The person looks around, confused at what has just happened, as there is no other evidence for something happening other than him catching it out of the corner of his eye.

He looks towards the source... you.

You reveal your hand, tucked behind your back. It holds an egg.

You throw it at him again, only for the same thing to happen.

The man is scared, and runs away.

You chase after him, hurling the disappearing eggs at him for all of eternity.

He will never know peace.

He will never forget the egg.

 I would argue that the egg would hit. If you throw a dagger as an attack, does it hit your target before the end of your turn or after? However still very funny to get hit by an egg, and then they are no eggs on you, best food fight ever.

Side thought: Griffin grease is a trinket (on the list), and grease burns. If one created it, then smashed the jar into the fire, would it fuel the fire for a few seconds?

Would prestidigitation clean rust off of a shield or breastplate?

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Couldn't you theoretically use prestidigitation to heat up an atom to nuclear fission levels of heat, since prestidigitation doesn't specify the temperature you warm an object to or a cap on temperature 

Bruh. It's a cantrip. I know it doesn't state it on paper, but some level of common sense is expected. 

In other words: no.

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I'm curious what counts as soiling an object? Specifically what can I soil objects with? I'm just not sure what limits there are, outside of size.

Why not?  It specifically says you can create soft musical notes…why not a buzzing sound?