1,001 Stupid, Stupid Uses for Powerful Spells


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"RULE 0" FOR THIS THREAD: No wish/miracle, shadow Conjuration/Evocation/etc, or dominate/geas/possession sorts of spells, that all's too easy.

1. Repeatedly cast meteor swarm on empty, barren stretch of land that you own in the hopes that some leave behind valuable minerals.

2. Take two rock lobsters, cast stone to flesh on one and flesh to stone on the other, see which works out better.

3. Cast a contingency spell set to release a stinking cloud in the event somebody pulls your finger.

4. Cast iron body, sacrifice yourself to save a brood of starving rust monsters.

5. Visit a party or a carnival, cast maze on paying customers. STEP RIGHT UP, STEP RIGHT UP! DON'T BE SHY!!!

6. Cast power word, stun on someone who was just about to deliver an important expository monologue.

7. Cast telekinetic sphere in some large, colorful city, invent and play "urban pinball".

8. Cast bilocation when you can't decide which of two wonderful restaurants to go to this evening, so you can go to both at once.

9. Cast time stop just to take a candy bar break.

10. Cast magnetic field to cause hijinx at the bank you work at after-hours.

11. Cast as large a wall of force as you can manage in a totally pointless, middle-of-nowhere location, followed by permanency.

12. Go to an inn with an exceptionally wide range in room quality, rent the cheapest, cast dimension door to spend the night in the most lavish (unoccupied) suite instead, then again to return to the cheap room so you emerge from it in the morning. Repeat daily for as long as you stay there.


13. Use curse of night to gain a few minutes more sleep. You can dismiss it when you're ready to get up.

14. Withdraw affliction can probably be used to transfer drunkenness. Great fun at the right sort of party.

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15. Cast cone of cold on several trays of water before a party, just so you have enough ice for cold drinks.
16. Cast enlarge person because you don't want to bother to get the step stool and need something off the top shelf in the lab.


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17. Hallucinatory terrain. "No, officer, that light is clearly green. Can I go now?"


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18. Cast gate to call a balor to do chores around the house.


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19. Use Baleful Polymorph to open a pet store - keep a chicken coop in the back for source material.


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2. Take two rock lobsters, cast stone to flesh on one and flesh to stone on the other, see which works out better.

Don't forget to also cast glitterdust.

20. Use a Lightning Bolt with elemental spell (or the rod, or the sorcerer power, etc) so that you can light a whole row of candles all at once. Be sure to order long wicks.

21. Use Jump and Haste and then challenge people to see who can go the highest on the trampoline.

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22. Use your last memorized fireball of the day to light the campfire.

Scarab Sages

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23. When at a wedding, cast hostile juxtaposition on one of the newlyweds - 'call it in' just before they kiss.

24. Cast true seeing when visiting an art gallery putting on an optical illusions exhibit.

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25. Use whispering wind to order a pizza.
26. Cast silence when that song you hate comes on, instead of skipping ahead.
27. Wind walk: Best way to get around at the chili cookoff.
28. Prismatic Wall: Put on some Pink Floyd; charge admission.

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29. Cast horrid wilting on a field of lettuce/spinach to make it suitable for an extraordinarily large quantity of hoity-toity salad.

30. Cast contagion on yourself to get out of school/work.

31. Cast bestow curse on yourself to make yourself eligible for disability compensation.

32. Cast create undead, but throw an ordinary poultry egg into the pot instead of an anthropoid corpse, to create some kind of horrific, neither-dead-nor-living-nor-undead Chinese century egg.


33. Cast light every time you move to another room, to save on the electricity bill.

34. Cast ghost sound into a room of a busy building. Make it sound like people were talking. Lock the door (ideally only you have a key). Everyone will hear the noise when passing by, but they can't figure out what is said. Bonus points for making it permanent.

35. Cast open/close multiple times to frighten a person with a "spooky door". Stop when they try to get a witness. Continue once the original person is alone again.


36. Cast Burning Hands to light a candle.

37. Cast Fireball to light a lot of candles.

38. Cast Control Weather to get a lightning-heavy storm so you can save on lighting costs.


39. Use the wish spell to get yourself a decent cheeseburger.

Of course, that'll likely backfire on you if you have a jerk GM.


I was in a dungeon with some puzzle that required anything thematically tied to the seasons or elements to be applied to a magic seed in the centre of the room. Thing took two kinetic blasts (one water, one electric), a 10d6 fireball and a 10d6 cone of cold when we could have used prestidigitation for the entire thing.


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Alright, ACTUAL rule 39 because I was an idiot who didn't read the OP thoroughly...

39) Using ethereal jaunt to commute to work on the Prime Material Plane.

40) Using iron body to pretend to be a statue to jumpscare your friends.


41) Use a series of permanent teleportation circles as elevators in your home.

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42) Be an arcane archer. Cast Source Severance and shoot casters, thereby placing them inside a personal, mobile, anti-magic field.


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43. Use Plane Shift to ding-dong-ditch Asmodeus.

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