Telekinetic Projectile weight (or bulk) limit

[Snickersnax]

This cantrip needs a limitation on object size. Otherwise super heavy objects start getting moved around.

My players wanted to use this spell to move anything and everything.

Also, issues like what if I target a party member but I try to miss came up. Arcane casters with a collection of small rodents or insects in cages that can be used as a target to move heavy objects started to be considered as an exploit.

While it was funny to imagine combat where the wizard was using the dead bodies of the enemies as weapons. It seemed a bit much for a cantrip

[wxcougar]

I agree also with this that there should be some sort of weight limit to this spell. I had this spell with my first playtest character and my first thought was - "What exactly can I use it with? A small rock, a chair, etc?".

Maybe the weight limit can scale as you go up in level?

[Alchemic_Genius]

As someone who loves the possible creative implication of moving huge things, this seems like a feature, not a bug :)

[angry_angel66]

I think this needs to be limited to things that have a bulk of L or 1 only. Otherwise bodies, carriages and pebbles are gonna be used. The first thing one of my players asked upon reading the spell was "So I could just drop a load of copper coins at my feet and fire them one by one for D10 damage each? Sweet!"

Also RAW the range only applies to the object to be used as a projectile... not the target. Just hold my beer while I stand on top of this mountain and destroy the army below with my chest full of copper coins. XD

[Alchemic_Genius]

Tbh, I see no problem with shooting coppers one by one for damage. Its how coin shot worked in 1e, and really, its the only cantrip that requires an outside resource to use, nor is it so powerful a spell that it should mandate you fling something of value. I could see the arguement for putting an upper end on the bulk allowed (perhaps increasing as it heightens).

This spell seems to mimic the base power of the aether kineticist, which actually could be used to move extremely huge items, and it had a specific line about how the size of the object didnt matter for the damage.

The range on the spell actually does apply to both the the thrown object and the target. It has a range of 30, and designates the person you are firing at to be the target, meaning you have to be within 30 feet of the person you are shooting at. The line about an object in range just say the projectile also has to be withint 30 feet, presumably to avoid you grabbing stuff from way far away and firing it at the target to avoid giving the spell the utility of bringing distant stuff closer