If this is a damage dealing cantrip, doesn't the damage increase when you get to higher levels? Cantrips like firebolt deal an extra damage dice at level 5, 11 and 17. I don't see it saying that anywhere for this spell, and it sorta makes it useless at higher levels. Does anyone know the answer to this? Would it deal 2d6 instead of 1d6 at level 5?

very pebbly

Investment of the Chain Master gave this spell a buff to Chain Warlocks, but it's still not very strong past low levels.

Have your familiar carry some pebbles, then cast via Find Familiar rules (touch range). Takes a bonus action to set up, but you can spend your next three turns dealing 1d6+CHA damage with your bonus action. Until 5th level, it's kind of... on par with Hex??? Assuming your familiar's attacks hit.

If your Imp shouldn't be in melee range, give them some pebbles. If you've got a Sprite, they can deal more damage than their shortbow, which helps if you're fighting poison-resistant opponents.

This is throwing rocks at things but for

INTELLECTUALS 

Throwing without a sling or hurling with one

Late reply but this lets you use your spellcasting stat with Sharpshooter.  

Could.be neat with Ranger

this is the first cantrip I ever used, nice.

Several things work well with it, if you have a monk, these are much better than throwing darts with that many attacks too.

Even better become a one man firing squad with summoning like summon woodland beings its concentration. For an hour, summon 4 1/2 rating creatures have one collect stones 3 throw them.

One step further use any charm person up to level 3 to make enemies throw stones at their own group reducing your targets or animal friendship if the right animals are around, they persist for 24 hours and require no concentration. So cast bless and you have elites or slow on remaining enemies. Potentially cst hex or alike if your DM allows your attack modifier to include your hex damage too. So for a 20 spellcasting start it's a 6d6 + 15 spell.is all hit and hex damage counts. 

No just the stone, slink is flavour. 

Just saying magic stone, with an arcane trickster using catapult while you hold enlarge, for when a stone is propelled, so a min maxer would have 1d6+5 per stone, catapult, sneak attack, enlarge (5lb to 40 lb and 2x bigger magic stone the dm may allow disadvantage on the save when it's a boulder rather than a pebble or some siege utility to break a door or jailbreak through a wall at range). 

Magic Stone + Crusher? :D

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I've looked through all the comments on here and there seems to be a lot of confusion and overthinking on how to use this cantrip. Keep in mind some of the keywords that are written, it can dramatically change the interpretation of the cantrip description and how to utilize it. As always, you can talk to your DM to make whatever seems appropriate for the campaign you are in, this is just how I personally interpret the description and include it in my campaigns.

 

First off, this is a simple cantrip. This is intended for players with lower levels and/or to help out other characters that might not have ranged weapons or attacks as a viable option. This can most likely be replaced at higher levels once it's damage amount or general use simply isn't worth taking up a cantrip anymore. Your DM might allow the 1d6 to increase at higher levels if you really want to keep it.

- The rules state that ONE to THREE PEBBLES can be infused with magic from this cantrip.

* Pebbles can range in size from 4 - 64 mm (0.16–2.52 inches) in diameter or a little less than a tennis ball at maximum size. This makes sense as most Sling ammunition would be around this size as well if you choose to use one with this cantrip. I might allow some pebble-sized objects like dice, a shot glass, etc. but since it deals bludgeoning damage, I try to keep it to rocks and stones to keep it simple.

- Players can only throw ONE PEBBLE at a time, the spell lasts up to ONE MINUTE with CONCENTRATION, and can only allow the player up to THREE PEBBLES at any time.

* I think this prevents most people from being able to stockpile a bunch of these Magic Stones in the heat of battle. This also prevents players from creating a scattergun or hail effect if they try and use multiple stones at once by throwing, slinging, dumping out of a bag or bucket, etc. I use a rule in my games that allow these pebbles to be gently tossed to nearby allies within 10 feet safely but the pebbles would need to reach a certain velocity in order for the magic to "kick in" while attacking.*

- The use of a Sling still counts as a RANGED SPELL ATTACK and does NOT add the 1d4 to the damage dealt since the Sling is simply an alternative way of launching the Magic Stone pebbles. The SPELL is doing the damage, not the pebble which I interpret as magical damage for overcoming nonmagical resistances. Rouges could use Slings to deliver any Magic Stone ammo and gain the Sneak Attack benefits, throwing them would not gain Sneak Attack benefits since it needs the use of finesse or ranged weapons.

* I would allow a house rule for the Sharpshooter and Spell Sniper feats to be applied to the infused pebbles if the CASTER has either of them for their character. Any character using these pebbles would be able to ignore half-cover, three-quarters cover, and not have a disadvantage on long-range if they use a sling for SharpShooter. They could also ignore half-cover, three-quarters cover, and be able to THROW the infused pebble up to 120 feet for Spell Sniper.*

 Can't take your interpretation seriously since it's not a spell with concentration and you capitalized it like you were confident it was.

if you used catapult on this, would it do both damages?

Yeah but it paired with catapult is harsh

for a starter this is an amazing cantrip. it is even better then some 1st level spells. I have a lv3 druid and a spell ac of 5 so this is an amazing spell for me.

Just saying magic stone, with an arcane trickster using catapult while you hold enlarge, for when a stone is propelled, so a min maxer would have 1d6+5 per stone, catapult, sneak attack, enlarge (5lb to 40 lb and 2x bigger magic stone the dm may allow disadvantage on the save when it's a boulder rather than a pebble or some siege utility to break a door or jailbreak through a wall at range). 

 Sneak attack only applies if you're using a finesse or ranged weapon, so you'd have to have a sling to get sneak attack damage (not a spell like Catapult). You couldn't shoot the magic stone from a sling and also cast Catapult on it.

Also, even if your GM is generous enough to consider a 1-to-5-pound object a "pebble", Catapult doesn't make an attack. It's a saving throw, and it would override any Magic Stone damage. Same with Enlarge; RAW, it wouldn't add any extra damage or effects (unless your GM decides to buff the spell).

"pebble" was an example, a Dagger for instance weighs 1lb also. a Rapier weighs 2lb's. Stone could be sharpened into a rustic flint dagger, as all things D&D there is space for some creativity. A stone Dagger could easily shatter or become lost, the right kind of stone or skills to reproduce one may not be available everywhere even if given the time. 

If a player did hold Enlarge for an object thrown at a enemy, how would you give value to the spell slot and action cost?

Right, but this spell specifically states a "pebble" so you couldn't use Magic Stone on a dagger or rapier since (even if made out of stone) they're way too large to fit the description of "pebble". If an enlarged object were just thrown at an enemy, I would rule that it does more damage. However, the Catapult spell specifically says 3d8 damage regardless of the object's size. I love creativity in D&D, it's just that these spells and features weren't really designed to work together, unfortunately.

Additionally, Magic Stone wouldn't even really be useful in this scenario since the Magic Stone damage is overridden by the Catapult damage.

Hi! I love the concept of this spell, specifically to put power in the hands of the powerless. I feel that the spell cannot be abused by trying to stack on other bonuses or damages. That is not what the spell is for. The magic pebble allows anyone hurling it to attack with a spell attack and that's it

*edit* oh, I was so naive when I started writing this.

If it's hurled from a sling, it's just +spell attack mod to hit and 1d6+spell damage mod and the range become 30/120. It feels like the sling part was added specifically to prevent trying to add ranged attack mods and damage.

*Edit* ok, so after reading sage advice and a couple abilities: any ability that requires an attack (not a "ranged weapon attack". Just an "attack" or "ranged attack") be made with a ranged weapon, can benefit from magic stone thrown with a sling. Still just made with spell attack bonus and spell damage bonus of the caster. So yeah, once more. Confusing. When using a sling, it's a ranged spell attack made with a ranged weapon. It is not a ranged weapon attack.

With sneak attack, a sling could be used to add sneak attack damage.

With sharpshooter, a sling could be used to take -5 penalty and deal +10 damage. But it would not benefit from the aspects of the feat.

Fired from a gun, it would do normal bullet damage, but the pebble would still retain it's magic for the duration of the spell (or be destroyed and mess up your gun depending on the resilience of magically imbued items in your campaign). It is not heavy enough for the catapult spell. If it were, it would only do catapult damage and it would still be a magic pebble for the duration of the spell. 

As for spell sniper, sadly, I feel that only the caster would benefit.

*Edit* nope. Magic stone does not require an attack roll and therefore does not benefit from spell sniper. OR if you are a kind and flexible DM, all the stones benefit, but only from the doubled range.

*This is next paragraph is wrong because I was making assumptions* Someone made a point that it specifies that it is a ranged spell attack. I have to read that as casting a cantrip spell. Unless you have a way to deal sneak attack with a spell, you do not gain sneak attack with magic stone. Unless you can cast spells as part of your extra attack, you do not get to extra attack with magic stone. *End of very wrong section*

*Correction edit* the attack action allows you to make an attack. You may not cast a spell for your attack action (unless you have an ability that allows it). You may make a spell attack. How to make a spell attack without casting a spell? Magic Stone! So yeah. Make those stones and load up your fighter with a sling and 3 fairly powerful ranged spell attacks each turn.

None of these things are what make magic stone magic. Magic stone gives a powerful spell attack to anyone the spell caster considers "someone" (the wording doesn't say humanoid or creature or person, it says someone. Do with that what you will) it also gives the caster the option to add a damage modifier to a cantrip if they don't want to use the other limiting methods of adding a damage modifier to their cantrips.

I think that my only modification would be to allow it to scale by magically imbuing one extra pebble at 5, 11, and 17. If you can convince 5 or 6 followers to go into battle with you, go ahead, hit with 6 stones on each round until all your very squishy buddies get eradicated with one aoe.

*I stand by this modification* give that fighter with 4 attacks and an action surge all the ammunition they need! It's not game breakingly powerful, but it is very cool team synergy.

Seriously though. Imagine assassinating the rude duke at a banquet by giving one of his disgruntled drunk guests a shiny stone and a little persuasive nudge. The spell does not need ways to deal more damage. It's perfect the way it is. My character gives stones to kids to throw at propaganda preachers she doesn't agree with.

*Edit* I had a lot of fun learning the specifics of attacks, the attack action, some feats, and some classes. What a great spell!

So here's my question. Throwing the stone itself, that's done as part of the attack action correct?

I.E. let's say me eldritch knight picks this up, Bonus actions to make 3 stones magic stones. He could then use his extra attack to hurl 2 or even all three stones should he have the second level of extra attack in one action? Cuz if that's the case, while it is niche it could be useful for Eldritch Knights as a ranged cantrip that uses their extra attack.

One more thing, if you use a sling to throw the stones, do you get both the sling's natural damage, which is 1D4 + Dex, plus the magic stone's 1D6 + Spell mod? or is it just the 1D6+spell mod? Cuz if it's the sling's damage and magic stones damage combined, that'd be really useful for arcane tricksters and hell, even Eldritch knights, as 1D4, 1D6, Dex, and Int on one attack, at up to 120 with disadvantage is not too shabby. Even if it doesn't work, it's still a good for Eldritch Knights regardless.