You exert control over the elements, creating one of the following effects within range.
Beckon Air. You create a breeze strong enough to ripple cloth, stir dust, rustle leaves, and close open doors and shutters, all in a 5-foot Cube. Doors and shutters being held open by someone or something aren’t affected.
Beckon Earth. You create a thin shroud of dust or sand that covers surfaces in a 5-foot-square area, or you cause a single word to appear in your handwriting in a patch of dirt or sand.
Beckon Fire. You create a thin cloud of harmless embers and colored, scented smoke in a 5-foot Cube. You choose the color and scent, and the embers can light candles, torches, or lamps in that area. The smoke’s scent lingers for 1 minute.
Beckon Water. You create a spray of cool mist that lightly dampens creatures and objects in a 5-foot Cube. Alternatively, you create 1 cup of clean water either in an open container or on a surface, and the water evaporates in 1 minute.
Sculpt Element. You cause dirt, sand, fire, smoke, mist, or water that can fit in a 1-foot Cube to assume a crude shape (such as that of a creature) for 1 hour.
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Posted Dec 10, 2025If we're considering real-world physics, we have to keep in mind that water only expands when it evaporates because those H20 molecules are dispersed into the air. There is nowhere enough air inside our digestive tract to allow water to evaporate inside us. The water that we consume stays inside us until it leaves us through excretion (to use the delicate term), respiration (as water vapor leaving our lungs, mouth, and nose), and perspiration (via the skin).
Freezing water inside a lock to break the lock probably doesn't line up with real-world physics, either. You would have to completely fill the lock with water and seal off all openings with a seal that is stronger than the metal of the lock itself and unable to detach from the lock to prevent the increasing pressure from escaping through any available free space or openings in the lock. Rapidly alternating heating and freezing the metal itself would likely break a lock much faster than trying to break it by freezing water inside the mechanism.
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Posted Dec 10, 2025The Mold Earth cantrip is easily misapplied. It doesn't allow you to move around stone, only "loose earth." (Moving around stone requires the 4th-level spell Stone Shape.)
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Posted Jan 13, 2026So many people in the comments are upset about this spell "replacing" Shape Water that they not only fail to see it didn't replace it, but fail to see how you could use both together. Water conjured with this spell, and then frozen with Shape Water, delays the evaporation while it's frozen. You could cast this spell 4 times to create 4 cups of water, then cast Shape Water to shape it, then cast Shape Water again to freeze it, providing you with an improvised weapon. Maybe even shape it into a Simple Weapon that weighs 2 pounds or less and doesn't involve strings. Become the MacGyver of spellcasting.
Although, doing all that requires that you have one or more containers available that could hold a total of 4 cups of water.