Level
1st
Casting Time
1 Action
Range/Area
30 ft
(30 ft )
Components
V, S, M *
Duration
Instantaneous
School
Transmutation
Attack/Save
None
Damage/Effect
Creation
You either create or destroy water.
Create Water. You create up to 10 gallons of clean water within range in an open container. Alternatively, the water falls as rain in a 30-foot cube within range, extinguishing exposed flames in the area.
Destroy Water. You destroy up to 10 gallons of water in an open container within range. Alternatively, you destroy fog in a 30-foot cube within range.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, you create or destroy 10 additional gallons of water, or the size of the cube increases by 5 feet, for each slot level above 1st.
* - (a drop of water if creating water or a few grains of sand if destroying it)
can you use this to kill someone instantly, by using the destroy function to remove all/most of the water from a body? because if so that's pretty strong. I looked it up and the average human body has around 14 gallons of water so you'd need to cast it at 2nd level to remove all of the water, alternatively if you want a 1st level use for this, just remove it from their blood as adult humans have less than 2 gallons of blood
And yes, I'm counting a body as a container, as long as A) their mouth is open, B) their nose isn't blocked by something, C) their b-hole isn't blocked by something, or D) they have an open cut or wound
I know its 2 years late but your DM must smoke crack to allow you to use this spell to create holy water, especially because of how much damage a single flask of holy water does. Holy water can be created by the ceremony ritual as an example which only makes one flask worth of holy water. Inside of someone's body is not an open container aside from the mouth which would need to be open and I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure every living creature that has a throat has some sort of tongue or muscle that prevents unwanted substances from entering their lungs or stomach. As for destroying water in someone's body it is IN the body so again not an open container. I would say that a magical water creature wouldn't be made out of regular water so it probably wouldn't work but could be argued.
Jesus christ, people
Been trying to do a bit of digging on this but so far haven't found the actual answer. Is the water created by this spell considered magical or nonmagical? Asking because some other spells, like Frost Finger(The main reason I'm asking this question in fact), state that they only have an effect on nonmagical water. Would the water created from this qualify or no?
Could be used for torture. A form of waterboarding.
Hold person down, open mouth, place funnel, cast spell.
Thinking of a Warlock who made a pact after his shipmates tried to drown him. Now he is out for revenge on them all.
Ok so some quick math tells us that a water elemental is large aka 10x10 let's say it's totally volume is 100 cubic feet which is about 768 gallons of water so destroying 10 gallons of water would compose about 1.3% of it's body a water elemental has 114 hp so it would deal about 1 damage alternatively it could deal like 1d4 of damage increasing as you destroy more of the elemental.
Using this logic Al-dalzims horrid wilting can destroy minimum of 120 gallons of water max of 960 gallons so given enough time a necromancer can dry up an ocean.
can I destroy the water in a body of a creature?
No, a creature's body is not an open container.
This spell is great if you need water in an area without such as a desert or a lava flow.
This can also be a source to refill vials of water. The vials can be blessed into holy water through the ceremony spell by paying 25gp each vial.
If fighting lots of undead or fiends in arid environments, this can make Create Water a great utility spell.
Thanks for answering, my party is stuck in a room of burning alcohol fumes and I wanted to know how long the rain would last to extinguish it
I would also argue that by the wording of an "open container," that it would need to be a container that is visible to the spell caster. And the internal organs of a creature are hardly visible. Maybe it could be argued that you could create water directly into a target's mouth, but the excess water would probably just spill out of the mouth, creating an uncomfortable experience rather than a deadly one.
Think I could use this to make Salt Water? it doesn't specify the salinity, just that's it's clean
I find having a bucket on hand is great for this spell. It's capacity isn't the full 10 gallons the spell creates but you can fill multiple waterskins from that one bucket.
Since the container just has to be open, I think you could dry all their blood if you cut them and made the "container" open.
Someone in a D&D group I was part of a few years ago used this spell to create water in an enemy's lungs, basically drowning him. It was hilarious, and it actually worked! That player was lucky, because it wouldn't work RAW. The spell's description specifies that the container must be open.
Water Elementals are "open." That's creative, and DMs should encourage creativity at their tables.
*dictionary leans over and high fives you*
I don't think anyone realizes how under utilized this spell actually is, and how useful it can be within a campaign. The body is technically an open container. Most humanoids are made up of a lot of water (can be several gallons depending on your size), therefore making this spell extremely useful! A good DM should allow a creative player to utilize this spell, especially if their character is proficient in medicine. As a DM myself, I have my players make a medicine check, especially if it is on a species that they might be unfamiliar with their anatomy. I don't set a super high DC but high enough to challenge them, then I roll a d100 to see if they actually accomplish what they were aiming for or if it does something else entirely. Could be cool, could be disastrous. Either way it makes for fun, and sometimes chaotic, game play. My players seem to really enjoy this because it gives them an opportunity to possibly do something really amazing with a skill that doesn't get used a lot, or it sends all of their well laid out plans sideways and they have to think on their feet.
at DM discretion this spell can also be used to clear difficult terrain in swamps