You pull wisps of shadow material from the Shadowfell to create a nonliving object of vegetable matter within range: soft goods, rope, wood, or something similar. You can also use this spell to create mineral objects such as stone, crystal, or metal. The object created must be no larger than a 5-foot cube, and the object must be of a form and material that you have seen before.
The duration depends on the object's material. If the object is composed of multiple materials, use the shortest duration.
Material | Duration |
---|---|
Vegetable matter | 1 day |
Stone or crystal | 12 hours |
Precious metals | 1 hour |
Gems | 10 minutes |
Adamantine or mithral | 1 minute |
Using any material created by this spell as another spell's material component causes that spell to fail.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 6th level or higher, the cube increases by 5 feet for each slot level above 5th.
* - (a tiny piece of matter of the same type of the item you plan to create)
Or osmium, the heaviest metal that exists. Around 25% heavier than gold.
The range is simply how far away you can materialize the spell, after that it just exists and can be as far away as you want (or can manage to get it) until the time runs out. If the object was forced to stay within range it would say so like Silent Image or Unseen Servant does.
What about gunpowder?
What about steel, for a sword for example? Thats metal, but certainly not precious. Maybe rule it as halfway between stone and precious metal, so 6 hours?
......neutron star matter.
idea use this to create adamantine or iron spikes then cast animate objects on the spikes to have an instant way to deal tons of damage
I see this being combined with Distort Value by a Rogue as a nice combination.
You pull wisps of shadow material from the Shadowfell to create a nonliving object of vegetable matter within range: soft goods, rope, wood, or something similar. You can also use this spell to create mineral objects such as stone, crystal, or metal. The object created must be no larger than a 5-foot cube, and the object must be of a form and material that you have seen before.
This wouldn't make sense to me. If we're getting technical. It mentions soft goods. -- so more than one. Also Gold touching each other really has no difference aside from the fact that they are not molecularly connected. Also, it does not mention if within that 5x5 foot object needs to be structurally connected. So could you create a 5x5 foot piece of gold that is broken up into several pieces? Could you Create a 5x5 pile of Crystal Arrows-- I don't see why not. If anything-- You could easily cheat this by having it connected--- IE Create a bunch of arrows connected by a tiny split of weak wood. Or gold coins connected by a thread of gold. That way it would meet that criteria of being a single object.
It would just be easier to allow the person casting it to create what they can fit in a 5x5 block.
I would allow a bunch of pieces connected by sprues, like the pieces in a model airplane kit.
Here's an idea!
If you're ever fighting a big monster with a bunch of hit points, lure it into an ocean of some kind, and take it far enough away to avoid collateral damage of nearby civilization.
Make a 5x5x5 cube of solid Francium, and throw it in the water at the monster.
Crystal is a type of Arcane Focus, any good usefulness from that?
Foci replace Materials, not get used as, I'm pretty sure.
In D&D, one pound of platinum is worth 500 gold. Using Creation with a 5th level spell slot can create 5x5x5 cube worth of platinum. One cubic foot of platinum is worth 1,340.45 pounds, and there are 125 cubic feet in a 5x5x5 cube. Using a 5th level spell slot, you can create 167556.25 pounds worth of platinum, or 83778125 gold for an hour. I only chose platinum because it would last for an hour.
You could instead chose diamonds, in which it is 2.0312 ounces per cubic inch, 219.3696 pounds per cubic foot, resulting in a 497521.88385 carat diamond for just ONE SQUARE FOOT. In comparison, 100 pounds of quality diamond is quote "immeasurable" by gem experts, and and a 100 carat diamond stands at $33.7 million today. In D&D, many people measure diamonds by 200 gold per carat. Using the numbers above, a 5th level spell slot would make a 62190235.48 carat diamond, worth 12438047096 gold. This is assuming you choose a regular diamond and not a pink diamond. But, this only lasts for 10 minutes.
Remember that it increases to a 10x10x10 cube with a 7th level spell slot, a 15x15x15 cube with an 8th level spell slot, and a 20x20x20 cube with a 9th level spell slot.
It is formed from shadowstuff. It is pretty much a solid illusion.
I can see a forge cleric combing this spell with animate objects or creating adamantine tools like masons tools or a pickaxe to mine real adamantine for armor and such.
I would say no, as the spell specifically states a non-living object and uses the singular several times (i.e. the object).
‘Vegetable matter’ should include things like poisons, right?
Using it to make crafting materials for free for a homebrew crafting system like from DM’s Guild would be a great idea
Spells that create objects or creatures from shadow stuff are actually conjuration. However, in the forgotten realms spells of this nature were popularized by illusionists who used shadow stuff to create a physical sensation to their illusions making them more believable. The creation spell is of this practice of a combination of conjuration and illusion.
Just pointing out, the spell says "nonliving" object", but it doesn't say anything about that it has to be a "non magical" object.
So unless the DM intervenes you could probably use this spell to temporarily duplicate any magic items your friends or enemies have that fits in the size requirement and material limits.
Unless there's some rule against that, the DM might ask for a arcana check to see if you can create the magical effect too or just the form of the item.
Under vegetable matter, could this spell not be used to make food? Surely it should classify as a 'soft good'.
Also, regarding the issue of selling jewelery and gems with this spell but not having enough time to sell it and get away ... why not create an ornate set of Crystal glassware or a crystal chandelier, sell those to the right shop and have plenty of time (12 hours ) to skip town. I'd imagine that would be easier to sell as well rather than gold and jewels.