Allfood: What the heck can you do with it?

[Mad Coil]

I've got a player that is basically saying that with allfood if the item meets the weight requirement he can turn it into the alfood substance. Is he right? Can he basically point to a sword or a door and turn it into allfood and eat it or make it useless? Or is he misinterpreting the spell and it only works on items like rocks or sand or things like that, where the spell is supposed to be used for emergency rations?

Any and all assistance is appreciated.

[CWheezy]

Up to 5lb per level. It works on objects, so yeah you can use it on whatever you want

[MaxAstro]

Haha, eating your way through a door. That is a really clever use of the spell.

Yeah, it works on anything that isn't magical (or has "exceptional qualities", which is GM fiat territory, but probably no eating adamantine, at least).

If you are worried about balance, it would be entirely reasonable to put a limit on how many pounds of food someone can eat without incapacitating themselves. :)

[Castilonium]

Allfood spell text

That spell sounds deliciously hilarious and awesome, I wasn't aware it existed. Yes, he could use it on a door as long as his caster level is high enough to exceed the weight limit. Unless the door is magical. Also, he has to actually chew all the way through it, because it still retains its hardness for any purpose other than eating it. If he cast it on a sword, the sword would still function fine as a weapon, as long as nothing tries to eat it.

Since he has to be a level 7 ranger to cast this spell, I don't think it's gamebreaking, if that's what you're worried about. Anybody can buy an adamantite dagger to break stuff.

[DominusMegadeus]

It's kind of lame that they included the "exceptional qualities" line.

Either the DM doesn't care and you eat everything, or they do care and you never eat anything important. Kinda bleh on that front, but unless you make every obstacle in the game magical and huge, Ranger eats through it. So that's fun.

[My Self]

Paladins get really nice things like Litany of Righteousness. I wouldn't see how it's game-breaking for a Ranger to get situationally moderately useful things like Allfood, used to eat... anything. As a Ranger, you're already suffering -3 to CL, so it's not like you're going to chew your way through a castle.

Now, this might be a problem if you have a very, very hungry wolf companion or something. Especially if you've trained him to throw up on command, and prepare Allfood in all your slots.

If you want a limit, look at the light load section of the Carrying Capacity table. As a house rule, whenever you eat a lot of food, make a fortitude save equal to 10 + the strength score for that weight of food as a light load. So if you eat 3 lbs. of food, make a DC 11 save (10 + strength score of 1). If you eat 133 lbs, make a DC 30 save (10 + strength score of 20). If you fail one save, you are sickened for 30 minutes. If you fail that save while you're sickened, you're nauseated for that duration instead.