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Create/buy a big metal ring. Depends on what caster level you want to use, but it can be pretty big. Enchant it (per wondrous item rules) to be a constant [spoiler=http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/spells/heatMetal.html]Heat Metal[/url] effect. Throw it in the river.
Short of that use a calling diagram to get the biggest fire elemental you can. Have it sit in the water until said water is dissolved. FYI: Summoning it is too short. You'll need to physical call it.
Bonus: Use stone shape for the bonus question.
Research "boil large amounts of water" in a local city.
That puts it on the DM to give you interesting opportunities / side-quest or interactions. :)
Your character should be trying to figure this out in character, IMO. Rooting through rulebooks for a solution seems to detract from the immersive quality of the game. But maybe that's the style of game you and your friends play, which is fine.
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Research "boil large amounts of water" in a local city.
That puts it on the DM to give you interesting opportunities / side-quest or interactions. :)
Your character should be trying to figure this out in character, IMO. Rooting through rulebooks for a solution seems to detract from the immersive quality of the game. But maybe that's the style of game you and your friends play, which is fine.
SO we meet again or perhaps for the first time even.
hahaha!
Arisen from the Plane of Coffee! :)
If it only makes you into a golem, you need to drink more. :)
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It seems a bit strange that a level 10 Wizard can't boil water, not even a cup sized boiling spell exists.
Prestidigitation will heat a cup of water.
Do you know a way to create a hole in solid rock? I'd prefer a permanent hole. Anything earlier than Disintegrate?
Have an earth elemental burrow one for you?
A big fire? I mean it actually doesn't take magic to boil water....
A big fire? I mean it actually doesn't take magic to boil water....
This. Make a big bonfire near the water and put something, like pieces of metal, to facilitate heat transfer.
Also, now that I think about it. You could just make a wall of fire permanent in a circle around the pool and/or in the pool.
Maybe your GM would allow you to cast permanency spells, which would make spells such as burning disarm a possibility or applying the effect to an object though crafting, as the spell clearly says it boils surrounding water. I dunno though, let's hope he accepts that
Why do you need to boil the water? Why can't you just pump it out?
Or, if you really do need to boil the water pump it out and put it in a big metal vessel. Fabricate will do it if you have a pile of metal. Then adds some hops and yeast and you can make some beer while you boil it.
Any of your players have flaming weapons? If so activate them and toss them
In.
If you can't put the heat under the water, put the heat into the water. Get lots of metal. Iron is fine. Heat it a lot. Drop it in the water. Done.
That would simply put the weapons out.Any of your players have flaming weapons? If so activate them and toss them
In.
Would it? They're magically on fire.
Create/buy a big metal ring. Depends on what caster level you want to use, but it can be pretty big. Enchant it (per wondrous item rules) to be a constant [spoiler=http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/spells/heatMetal.html]Heat Metal[/url] effect. Throw it in the river.Short of that use a calling diagram to get the biggest fire elemental you can. Have it sit in the water until said water is dissolved. FYI: Summoning it is too short. You'll need to physical call it.
Bonus: Use stone shape for the bonus question.
Silly TCG, fire elementals can't even touch a little line of water, let alone sit in it!
Silly TCG, fire elementals can't even touch a little line of water, let alone sit in it!
Create/buy a big metal ring. Depends on what caster level you want to use, but it can be pretty big. Enchant it (per wondrous item rules) to be a constant [spoiler=http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/spells/heatMetal.html]Heat Metal[/url] effect. Throw it in the river.Short of that use a calling diagram to get the biggest fire elemental you can. Have it sit in the water until said water is dissolved. FYI: Summoning it is too short. You'll need to physical call it.
Bonus: Use stone shape for the bonus question.
I'm sure they don't like it, but where does it say that?
Get a scroll of Heat Metal, or a wand of Heat Metal, or hire a Druid.
If cast underwater, heat metal deals half damage and boils the surrounding water.
I'm sure they don't like it, but where does it say that?Silly TCG, fire elementals can't even touch a little line of water, let alone sit in it!
Create/buy a big metal ring. Depends on what caster level you want to use, but it can be pretty big. Enchant it (per wondrous item rules) to be a constant [spoiler=http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/spells/heatMetal.html]Heat Metal[/url] effect. Throw it in the river.Short of that use a calling diagram to get the biggest fire elemental you can. Have it sit in the water until said water is dissolved. FYI: Summoning it is too short. You'll need to physical call it.
Bonus: Use stone shape for the bonus question.
Right in their Bestiary entry.
"A fire elemental cannot enter water or any other nonflammable liquid. A body of water is an impassible barrier unless the fire elemental can step or jump over it or the water is covered with a flammable material (such as a layer of oil)."
Create a steam engine... that pumps its water in the lake, and shoots the steam back in. Place a fire elemental in the steam engine. Or, you know, just put logs.
10'x10'x10' is 1000 cubic feet, or 7480 US gallons. That's like a modern pool... and many modern pools have heaters, which are usually propane or electric. IMO it wouldn't cost much at all to make a pretty mundane pool heater, without any magic at all, and I would assume for much less than 10 000 gp, let alone 50k.
I'm sure they don't like it, but where does it say that?Silly TCG, fire elementals can't even touch a little line of water, let alone sit in it!
Create/buy a big metal ring. Depends on what caster level you want to use, but it can be pretty big. Enchant it (per wondrous item rules) to be a constant [spoiler=http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/spells/heatMetal.html]Heat Metal[/url] effect. Throw it in the river.Short of that use a calling diagram to get the biggest fire elemental you can. Have it sit in the water until said water is dissolved. FYI: Summoning it is too short. You'll need to physical call it.
Bonus: Use stone shape for the bonus question.
Right in their Bestiary entry.
"A fire elemental cannot enter water or any other nonflammable liquid. A body of water is an impassible barrier unless the fire elemental can step or jump over it or the water is covered with a flammable material (such as a layer of oil)."
Very Interesting. Thanks.
If you just want to drain the pool dig a channel and use create pit.
If the pool is outside consider using fabricate and a load of sand to create a really big lens. If the cleric can hallow the area and attach daylight to it that should cover you underground too.
If it is what I think it is, draining it is not an option.
Got a druid that can wild shape into a fire elemental? They should be able to go in the pool.
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What if you learn Heighten spell, and just make Prestidigitation a 5th level spell? If the cantrip can boil a cup of water, maybe raising it to 5 will boil the whole thing.
I am not sure it's possible to get a fire near the pool hot enough, you'd have to have pipes (filled with water?) that go over the fire, down into the pool, then back out, so they gradually heat up the pool. or if it's in the ground, a combination of earth to mud spells or stone shape etc to tunnel under and then build your fire.
Though the easiest is probably the permanent heat metal on several metal objects thrown in.
Maybe your dm would let you research a new spell, like continual flame, but instead of visible light it emits microwave light. Then cast continual microwave on rocks and throw them into the pool or just set them near the pool. Of course, you'd have to justify how you know microwaves are just another form of EM radiation, maybe sell your soul to one of the Old Gods to learn it, I'm sure they know.
If it is what I think it is too (as per Dragonhunterq's spoiler), then the party does not want any living creature to touch that "water".
The Heat Metal idea and its variants sound like the best bet for the boiling pre-requisite. Just be ready to re-fill it as needed if the water boils away and you still need to keep boiling some in that pool.
Boiling water:
Cauldron of brewing 3,000 gp. give it a command word and lower it in. It will boil the water in the cauldron, which will rise and new water will come in. Eventually it will boil the whole pool.
Hire an undine steam-caster.
A bonus question: Do you know a way to create a hole in solid rock? I'd prefer a permanent hole. Anything earlier than Disintegrate?
Gloves of shaping 10k gp
Use Mount for a 20 hours summon at level 10.
Use Alter Summoned Monster to swap out the horse for a small fire elemental
Have the fire elemental heat the water.
With a heightened Mount, you can get bigger elementals.
/cevah
Throw in some hot siccatite. Cold siccatite can freeze a cubic foot of water near instantly, so hot siccatite should be able to boil it without much of a problem.
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Thanks everybody for your responses. Some really good (and some not so) ideas. I went with a custom magic item that works like the Burning Disarm spell with an on/off command word (it was my iron pot, so cooking will get easier after this as well).
Well personally I thought my suggestion of selling your soul to an Elder God (or Great Old One) to learn a spell to microwave boil the water was a great suggestion! hmph.