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)
OK with a charismatic character this could make some funny situations
Question, can you use this to delete the water in someone's body? just kinda deleting them?
NOOOOO I was gonna use this to insta dry out and kill someone but I'm a BARDD
Doesnt specify heat or density. can i crush ten gallons of watr to the space of a drop, put it to a billion degrees, and put it in the back of enemy mouths to make burning water bombs?
My DM allowed it, dealing 4d10 dmg
Water Elemental is a large monster. Large means it assumes 10x10 feet of space + it is at minimum 8 feet high. That would result in a volume of 800 cubic feet or roughly 6000 gallons. If you destroy the maximum of 10 gallons this spell allows, you would do the equivalent percentage of hp dmg. 10 gallons from 6000 gallons is roughly 0.17%. So for every destroy water cast, you do .17% of 114 dmg = 0.19 dmg per cast. You would need to cast the spell 600 times to kill a water elemental completly, though it would grow weaker slowly, since you destroy parts of its body.
By RAW nothing happens at all, since we have Jeremy on the record, stating that water elementals are not simple water, thus not affected by it. Furthermore the spell requires the water to be in a container, which an elemental is not.
Homebrew? Make it necrotic dmg, for example 1d6 necrotic, but its a ranged touch attack roll to hit. Its not the world but its only a cantrip and shouldnt even do any dmg as per the rules.
10 gallons of water weigh a little over 30kg, if you could drop that from a height and in a focused way you could seriously hurt someone.
I'm just here to read all the comments asking if this can be used on a creature... Not disappointed.
I used this spell on my self as a plasmoid, and became a large creature, then proceeded to grapple another large creature at advantage. With my cloak of flies invocation, i slowly ate them.
No
Destroy 10+ gallons of saltwater. Salt is a commodity.
By the time the container was “opened” it would no longer be capable of being closed
I have a Fathomless Warlock and I hate this useless spell.
You left out the key word "open" in open container. So no the lungs are not an open container
To all the people wanting to use this to drown people: That shouldn't work. Even if lungs are containers, something with (relatively) fine control over what goes in and out is hardly "open". For the damaging elementals thing: Fire elementals, sure, but water elementals are held together by magic, so you probably need similar strength magic to undo that (a.k.a talk to your dm when you take this spell for how they want to handle that) and you would still need to get them into an open container (and the room you're in probably won't count)
But if you still want to get up to shenanigans, even if it won't drown somebody, a mouthful of water (your mouth is an arguably much more open container than your lungs, provided you are talking) is still a bother for a lot of things like casting spells with verbal components or using breath weapons.
Just remember: if you want this (or any) spell to work in a repeatable way that isn't mentioned explicitly, ask your DM before you make it part of your strategy.
my campaign and I are currently fighting underwater and we decided that if we were to destroy the water in a space and create a vacuum sound bomb, any creature in the 30-foot cube would take 2d6 damage.
I was wonder if You can use it to attack a vampiere in its mist form. Is mist = fog ? How woud it work ?
If you manage to shove it in a box or something to make it in a container, it would take out a tiny (dnd size) sized chunk out of it, so it would deal as much damage as a hypothetical tiny water elemental's maximum hit points, I'd assume.
Edit: this is a reply to StormDassai's comment about casting this spell on a water elemental
I think it's gonna take a while, even if he has unlimited 1st level spell slots. Also considering it needs to be in a container