What are some fun, clever, or diabolical uses of the creation spell?
Go wild, heightened or unheightened.
I'd say "common minerals, like feldspar or quartz" would eliminate most everything chemically interesting if the mineral has to be as common as those. And diamonds are precious so they're excluded (and being 10x more common than what's sold is still not "common").
Sodium or potassium might qualify, yet a GM might have to overrule with the "to good to be true" hammer. I mean, how would one adjudicate such a thing anyway? That rule will overshadow a lot here. Not that you necessarily want those to work because at Range = 0' you'd be blowing yourself up or poisoning everybody.
Salt vs. slugs, but the minute casting time means you'd have to know, which you might if you see their trail.
It might be interesting to conjure something that reacts with normal material to make something else. Then what happens when the spell ends and the conjured portion disappears?? The remaining portion may be reactive.
Hmm...
I'm curious what happens if you use it to make 5 cubic feet of edible vegetables, and then eat them. Can the spell provide lasting nutritional effects on people? If so, it could be used as Create Food with a faster casting time (if that ever matters). More interestingly (to me), if it doesn't provide lasting effects you could get a wand of Creation and make yourself a roughly 1.7-foot cube junk food every day that tastes great and has no negative impact on your health.
For minerals the constraints are firmer, common like feldspar or quartz, not simply "not precious". Diamond doesn't qualify, nor would anything rare enough to be precious in the colloquial sense whether or not it's a Precious Material in game terms.
That's a simple adjudication of sodium, yet IMO unsatisfying.
No better than a dedicated spell is a good rule of thumb to begin with, yet the science nerd in me would wish more accuracy as to time elapsed, size, and whether there'd be toxic results.
And I wouldn't concede sodium (in pure form) is common like feldspar or quartz, though maybe salt which then could be blasted into its constituent elements.
Didn't realize we had so many chemistry enthusiasts on the forums! XD
I figured we'd be getting a bunch of practical ideas for items like...
...you could shape the object kind of 'C' shaped on two separate ends and create it between a narrow doorway as kind of a clamped-super-barricade.
...not wild science experiments like poison gas clouds or sodium bombs. XD
Soon as Gek Copperbottom, kobold wizard, snags creation, I'm using it to create either snares or poisons.
I could imagine a GM ruling you need to know the recipe or restricting the snare or poison level to a max of double the spell level, which is still good.
At level 7, I could pay a couple of gold to be able to manifest 5 cubic feet of wyvern poison (not necessarily legit, but a lot are vegetable) or get a striking snare in place fast without having to pay gold.
If they don't rule that way, I guess you can just heighten it to 5 to set up a free evisceration snare at level 9?
If they don't rule that way, I guess you can just heighten it to 5 to set up a free evisceration snare at level 9?Sven(Pleroma): Too complex.
Hmmmm thats right... Natural and uncomplex, maybe black lotus extract ?
Hmmmm thats right... Natural and uncomplex, maybe black lotus extract ?If they don't rule that way, I guess you can just heighten it to 5 to set up a free evisceration snare at level 9?Sven(Pleroma): Too complex.
BLE had occurred to me as well... :)