You know you're an adult when you're offered a magic power and your top choice is doing house chores.

@godsamongmen8003

6 күн бұрын

You could also be a master criminal. Being able to not just clean, but soil material means you could clean up evidence and plant new stuff.

@davidarmstrong1617

6 күн бұрын

Growing up means realizing you have a favorite sponge.

@H3xx99

5 күн бұрын

@@godsamongmen8003 I've always secretly loved that aspect of Presto. The "I shit YOUR pants" aspect is NEVER expected.

@donebydice9985

Күн бұрын

@@davidarmstrong1617I had to bin my favourite sponge the other day and now I’m sad because I don’t know where they were bought from.

Prestidigitation. No more dirty dishes or bland food.

@treymarcum

7 күн бұрын

Also open a “green”laundry charge the hippie extra

@mufasafalldown8401

7 күн бұрын

It's under the "Flavour Cantrips" section of the video. Pun intended?

@Wintermute909

7 күн бұрын

Oh yeah that's a clear winner.....but gust of wind would be pretty cool for paragliding! You could make your own wind for take-off.

@user-gw9ff5un6c

7 күн бұрын

1st level spell, find familiar, centripetal easy prestifisication, mage hand miner illusion

@simonmoody8400

7 күн бұрын

Yeah, Prestidigitation is an easy winner. One particular aspect that I love is creating a small illusion in the palm of your hand. As someone who has no ability to draw/paint, the ability to create an image directly from my head, with no skill to put it on paper, this is wonderful. (IG I love the idea of using this to show other people the image of say..someone you caught a glimpse of, so they know what the person looks like now as well...a rotating head and shoulders image floating over your open hand, just is such a nice visual to me). Same can be used IRL, but sorry, Monty, nope. Objects or smells only for Minor Illusion, that's why imho Pretidigi is much better, you can create any sort of image hovreing over your hand. Granted, it's only got a 6 second duration, but it's actually got a much wider range. Mending, Guidance and probably Spare the Dying (in that order after Prestidigi), which for someone untrained in treatement is just as useful, when it is useful would be a great set of four. But, between that and Mending, you could do an awful lot in terms of a no cost, no training needed repairer and medic. Good catch on cleaning wounds w Pres as well though. (1st Level - Comprehend Languages, Unseen Servant or a weak option, but for certain people very nice, Feather Fall. I just worry about things that are too overtly magical, Prestidigi hovering over hand images 'could' be explained away as holograms at this point, but Silent Image, that's a much tougher one to explain away except as part of a stage magic act)

Doctor here. Spare the dying would be useful in emergency situations. So like it's actually quite difficult and delicate work to "stabilise" someone. The knowledge required to manage a first aid situation isn't too heavy but once someone is in an ED it gets very complicated. Also the nature of these emergencies usually means the situation is chaotic and there's a constant need for quick thinking and adaptability which is *really* difficult while someone is dying in front of you. There's also less obvious things; a team of people with diverse skills that can be difficult to manage is needed, the situations this takes place in are usually complex and stressful and mistakes are easily made. There's also no guarantee that effective treatment exists for the thing this patient has. So to have one person to be able to just decide the patient is stable and have it be so would be amazing. The other side is the cost, actually stabilising someone in hospital might need the involvement of dozens of different professionals, most of whom have advanced degrees and high earning potentials in private land and who demand a premium to do a stressful and unpleasant job where night shifts are a regular occurrence and where they regularly watch people die. Also the cost of the stuff and equipment and drugs and cost of the people required to make sure all the stuff and drugs and people are there, effective and accessible at all times. Compare that to one guy, who needed four years to learn one cantrip and can now just decide that a patient is stable. Sounds *amazing*

@sharmakefarah2064

7 күн бұрын

It's definitely good, but the issue is that it's insanely restrictive in both it's range and the fact that it requires the target to be at 0 hit points, and at that point you are likely seconds away from death, so you'd have to act insanely fast. If it was more lenient in the HP range it targeted and had a longer range, it would absolutely be amazing.

@sazuru5708

7 күн бұрын

@@sharmakefarah2064 0 hp is unconscious and dying, but not dead. The cantrip is at will so you just cast it on repeat until it takes.

@RLKmedic0315

7 күн бұрын

I'm a paramedic. Spare the Dying would be quite useful. I'd get more use out of it than most Doctors that don't work in the ER or in trauma surgery.

@Sawtooth44

7 күн бұрын

@@sharmakefarah2064 you have a minimum of 12 seconds thats rolling a nat 1 on the death save and failing in any other way, in an emergency thats HUGE

@drunkenwarrior3875

7 күн бұрын

@@sharmakefarah2064sorry dude but I’m gunna trust the doctors opinion on this one as like he said it will probably save millions of people and millions in cash for the government the only down side is quite a lot of people might be out of a job

Getting up and walking 30 feet to grab something might not be a big deal to _you,_ but as someone with muscular dystrophy who uses a wheelchair, Mage Hand would be _life changing_ for me. I've got a dozen or more long handled tools around my house that I use for everything from getting dressed, going to the bathroom, getting stuff out of cabinets/drawers, and Mage Hand could replace _all_ of them. It could also do a whole bunch of things I currently need another person to help me with. Example: repositioning my wheelchair footrests Prestidigitation would be a close second, simply because it would save me the ordeal of getting in and out of the shower/bath.

@giovannisperanza5755

6 күн бұрын

I totally second that.

@nickhayley

3 күн бұрын

Mage hand exists. It's called a grabber claw. 😂

@CatgirltheCrazy

Күн бұрын

@@nickhayley Grabber claws are great, I own several already. But I could name a hundred everyday tasks that a Mage Hand could do that a grabber can't, lol.

Being able to 100% stabilize a patient every 6 seconds would greatly reduce the mortality in a busy trauma hospital. It would also make numerous highly trained medical professionals from codes available for working on what to do to actually get the patient to recover. We can already clean things. The only benefit to Prestidigitation would be if it could clean a burn victim's wounds with less pain than current techniques.

@MandalorV7

7 күн бұрын

Also combat medics and other civilian first responders. So many lives could be saved. Though with the combat medic that darkly could cause more loss of life in the long run. As those soldiers they saved could be well enough to send back to the front line and do more fighting.

@TheHandgunhero

7 күн бұрын

Also staff could finally get needed breaks for a change.

@bingus549

7 күн бұрын

less pain and a 100% thorough cleaning guaranteed

@andrewlyon4495

7 күн бұрын

@@MandalorV7 Just because someone is in no danger of dying doesn't mean they will be ready for combat after a long rest, especially if dealing with things like lost limbs, damaged organs, or significant burn wounds.

@TheLublume

7 күн бұрын

Guidance would be more useful in the ER, patients that come in already dying are rare. Usually they come still alive, and it's better to find out whats the issue right away and act, than to wait to stabilize.

Mage Hand would be great as a blue collar worker. You could touch something electrical without worrying about getting shocked or electrocuted. Or you can grab a tool that's not next to you. Or get to something just out of reach in a tight space.

@Crowsinger

3 күн бұрын

That's what I was thinking. 🔥

@LilithCrow-v4v

2 күн бұрын

Mage hand is phenomenal for a criminal. The spells description does not require line of sight, so you could just waltz up to a locked door, cast Mage Hand inside and turn the lock to unlock it, and waltz right in like its the most casual thing in the world. Pickpocket people while having both hands where they can see them, as the spectral hand goes to work behind them. Mages hand is a Rogue’s best friend, and unlike most classes, Rogues essentially do exist, and can be a viable (if illicit) career path for them. Am i saying that i would immediately turn to a life of crime if given the smallest shred of magical power? Legally i think i have to say no.

@samuelteare8160

2 күн бұрын

@@LilithCrow-v4v Not to mention you can reach that part of your back that is always itching and just out of reach.😜

Guidance is for sure the best cantrip for real life, it's not situacional, it has a significant impact in your chances to succeed and you can use it in other people.

@jakeroon

7 күн бұрын

I agree. As cool as prestidigitation is, it's basically just a conveince cantrip. I can clean by hand, I can flavor things with spices, I can warm or chill things with fire or ice-packs, I can scent things with essential oils. Guidence was make the "average" person like me 25% - 100% better at everything ? That's amazing.

@that_guy1186

7 күн бұрын

an already just slightly above average person could possibly instantly become the best in the world at something with Guidance. you want to throw something? use Guidance on yourself and potentially increase your modifier to that throw by 4. learning something? potentially increase your intelligence by 4 for every instance of learning. anything charisma related? you could be the most motivating, charming person around.

@Merilirem

7 күн бұрын

Agreed, except I would say spare the dying comes in clutch when it matters most. Which could be worse more. You literally cannot die if someone is stabilizing you. Not unless its a quick death anyway.

@fastrayd1

5 күн бұрын

My problem with guidance is that it in fact is situational. It has a 60 second duration with a 6 second cast time and requires that you make a loud determined vocal casting of the spell as well as a hand gesture and touch of some sort. Every 54 seconds you have to start that process just to keep it going and that is just not tenable for many many tasks. Imagine just even writing emails in an office. Every 54 seconds you have to start chanting loudly and touching your chest while waving your other hand, just to make sure Sharon in HR understands the importance of hiring one more person to work on Thursdays. And for very long tasks like repairing a vehicle while underneath and turning a wrench, your hands are full. It may not be reasonable to drop the nut you've been holding in your left hand for the past 5 minutes just to shout "Bastard engineers designed this!" and slap your chest to recast the spell.

@thomasstyan2066

5 күн бұрын

@@fastrayd1 Yeah, And remember that an extra d4 doesn't guarantee a good result. If you roll a 2, even with an extra 4, that's still only a 6. I see guidance as being more useful for competitive games like shot-putting or archery, but the sports would soon catch on that you are using magic. Using cantrips would soon be regarded as being like using performance enhancing drugs.

Mage hand holds 10 pounds, not 5. Also, everyone has been working on something where they just need someone else to hold it, or a third hand to reach something, move something, etc. Super useful.

@thomasstyan2066

5 күн бұрын

Niche use, but mage hand would be useful handling dangerous things like radioactive waste.

@derekstein6193

3 күн бұрын

​@@thomasstyan2066 Or, more practically, the shards of a dropped plate or glass.

@psiah9889

2 күн бұрын

Also useful to, say, hold something that might burn you, be too cold, or covered in thorns or something. Could fit into spaces you otherwise can't reach, unlock doors from the inside, etc. It's definitely very useful.

@kratze1738

18 сағат бұрын

While I'd also pick Presti as my 1st choice, Mage Hand would come in handy for a lot of things and might come third after Mending (if I could have three). I just started volunteering at a Parrot Sanctuary, and being able to interact with the birds without fear of getting nabbed would be huge. I could also use it to clean the gutters on my house, fetch a tool when I'm working out in the yard and dropped it a little way back (would be really nice when it's boiling hot), hold band-aids still so I can position them better, brush off skeeters when I'm out walking, take certain pictures with my cellphone on trips without having to deal with my fear of heights (it would be like owning a short-range drone). So many possibilities.

Being able to warm up or cool down my clothes with Prestidigitation is clutch

@godsamongmen8003

7 күн бұрын

Yes, cooling your shirt in summer or warming it in winter would be amazing. I even do that in game.

@TheRavenLilian

7 күн бұрын

Our heat index here has three digits! Yes let me cool my clothes down, that would be amazing!

@2MeterLP

6 күн бұрын

Yes! Sweaty in summer? Three prestidigitations later your clothes are clean, cool and smell nice!

Mage hand, mending, and prestidigitation are top of my list

@Babbling_Wizard

6 күн бұрын

Get out of head! Same

@godsamongmen8003

6 күн бұрын

Mage hand was undersold in the video. How many times have you wished you had a third hand because the first two were full? And the mage hand could touch dangerous stuff, like a wire that may still be live.

@Asaomar

6 күн бұрын

@godsamongmen8003 there are a ton of uses for it. Imagine someone who is say, really short, or in a wheelchair who can't reach something in a higher cabinet or on a shelf. Or if they can't afford an electric wheelchair, they can use mage hand to push themselves around. The disabled community would be able to make incredible use of that cantrip to vastly improve their quality of life.

@rogerwilco2

5 күн бұрын

These

@michaelbarnard8529

19 сағат бұрын

Those, plus shape water and mold earth.

Definitely do a series of "Real life" D&D. Feats, each spell level, class features... In real life situations.

@danwebber9494

7 күн бұрын

Bard, with either keen mind or lucky.

@Merilirem

7 күн бұрын

Healing wins most of the time if its a choice. People overestimate doctors and modern medicine. Its not at all comparable to healing magic.

@RuBoo001

7 күн бұрын

It may not be considered real in modern days, but a historically-accurate ninja? No way they’re taking any Class but Druid. “But what about Rogue?” I hear you ask. Well, it’s too obvious. Of _course_ the guy with a penchant for sneaking around would be the ninja, can’t be anyone else! Certainly not the guy who turns into animals and can cast spells and the like, no, why would people who were basically the feudal Japanese equivalent to James Bond want abilities like _that?_ …If you know anything about real ninja, you know that they would _love_ to have abilities like that.

@dontmisunderstand6041

4 күн бұрын

@@Merilirem You're overestimating the NEED for healing spells in real life. Yeah, lesser and greater restoration are awesome. But how many people would reach level 3 at all? Or level 9 for greater. Revivify is also not a strict improvement over what modern medicine can already do. Yes, there are situations where modern medicine isn't as good as Revivify, but there are also situations where Revivify isn't as good as modern medicine. Especially when we factor in the cost of diamonds, which would only skyrocket if this magic actually existed.

Prestidigitation, Mending, Spare the Dying. I'm practically prepared for nearly every situation that I come across every day, including my job. So much tedium just REMOVED from my life.

@sebastiansirvas1530

6 күн бұрын

Had the same list during the video. I would say guidance is also great. I would take your list and try to swap one for guidance, but it is kinda hard (either mending or prestidigitation).

@Zanarthis

6 күн бұрын

@sebastiansirvas1530 unless you're around injured/dying people often, probably replace Spare the Dying. It's the least useful for the most people in the everyday.

Prestidigitation is the most realistic pick because cleaning is just a pain, even more so if you’re ND. 😂 like I don’t have to clean my dishes, do laundry, dust and vacume anymore. Plus you can make tiny items with it so if you need a random item you can just make it.

@RichWoods23

7 күн бұрын

A coin for the vending machine, which then gives you both a snack and some loose change.

@2MeterLP

6 күн бұрын

@@RichWoods23 Note that the trinkets you can make only last until the end of your next turn, so 6 seconds. That massively restricts what you can do with it. Vending machine coins is clever, though technically stealing. The only other thing I can think of off the top of my head is make stuff to throw at people.

@RichWoods23

6 күн бұрын

@@2MeterLP Twelve seconds maximum, not six.

@nephalos666

3 күн бұрын

@@2MeterLP it's only stealing if you get caught.

"What Feat Would You Take In Real Life?" would be awesome to see! i could see ritual caster, alert, observant, and even shadow touched coming in useful!

@windsgrace688

7 күн бұрын

Legitimately would consider taking Magic Initiate for once. Having prestidigitation, mending, and unseen servant would be such a quality of life game-changer for almost anyone.

@Sawtooth44

7 күн бұрын

would ritual caster be useful? since in order to ritual cast you need magic, dose it give you any magic?

@Merilirem

7 күн бұрын

@@Sawtooth44 I mean magic not being real kills most things. So you have to assume that it works as written. Which means you could gain all rituals should you be able to find the actual spells written down for those classes. Which also means druid and cleric rituals might actually work. I mean ones from real life druids and clerics. Find some holy books and see if it works. Expensive though.

@Sawtooth44

7 күн бұрын

@@Merilirem just checked, you do actually gain 2 1st level spells from taking the feat

@2MeterLP

6 күн бұрын

Cleric magic initiate with spare the dying, guidance and cure wounds would turn you into the ultimate doctor! Stabilising a dying person is actually very difficult to do, and you can just snap your finger and their life is saved! Plus fully healing one person a day, and use guidance to make sure every surgery around you always succeeds!

I'm choosing Mold Earth, Druid Craft, and Mending. I love gardening, and the ability to instantly dig holes is essential to the planting season. So Mold Earth is awesome for me. I can till the soil and create a perfect grid of seed holes in 18 seconds. I can the be a human back hoe/ bull dozer. I can add swales to hillsides to catch water and end droughts through water infiltration. I'll go take Andrew Millison's course on permaculture earthen works principles to master the principles of terraforming. Then I'll take a few months to go camping throughout the Colorado River Basin and fix the water retention issues of the landscape, saving California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado from rampant droughts in a single year. Druid Craft allows plants to accelerate through their life cycles in a controlled fashion. Foremost in my mind is the ability to propagate plants instantly by forcing a cutting to grow roots and sprout leaves in 12 seconds. This is a process that takes months and fails half of the time. Now you can clone a plant 100 times in an hour. Sold at $10 each, that's $1000 of rare and exotic plants perfectly propagated and ready to sell. With enough genetic diversity, I could plant entire forests and end deforestation and global warming (through carbon sequestration into plants) at the same time. I could force a plant to put out flowers and produce food. Mending is just awesome.

@shixter

6 күн бұрын

You Win! You have the most responsible and altruistic list - and Plan - Thank you for watching out for the Earth and all of us!

@velocitymg

22 сағат бұрын

There are animals and plants and environments that prefer drought conditions “fixing” it is just going to create even more ecological issues

Prestidigitation is so obvious, I pick it with every spellcaster, you can be SO creative with so little. I once kept a blizzard out of our druid's face with continuous Prestidigitation so he could drive our sled down the mountain, likely saved the entire party just with a "fan" on command.

I didn't even start the video and immediately shouted "Prestidigitation!" And then I watched the entire video :-). I concur with your assessments and would also choose mending as my second. Some objects are just irreplaceable and would be wonderful to fix. Imagine going into a museum and fixing all the displays.

@knowwhoiamyet

6 күн бұрын

Maybe I'll sound like "that guy" for saying, but I feel like fixing the displays would starkly go against some of the appeal. Like, seeing the history in an object or item, the age, is all part of it, isn't it? I can see practical use for it in a museum, certainly, but I think I would do my absolute best to keep the use of it on the displays themselves to a minimum. But if something got damage *by* the museum while setting up or transferring to and from storage... Yeah that's fair game lol.

Minor Ilision would be amazing for Engineers, Architects, Filmmakers or some sort of Designer.

Paramedic here, adding to the spare the dying discussion: It definitely would save a ton of lives better than modern medicine without question. Most ICUs are loaded with patients forced into stability with lots of medications and a medically induced coma, a quick fix for that would be a literal miracle. But what are the limitations, would it save someone who needs CPR? their heart and lungs have already stopped, in some cases the heart is shaking around and can be restarted with electricity but would they be considered dead or dying? How many people would have access to this cantrip? If it becomes common (even like 1000 people in the US might be enough) it would collapse the entire corrupt healthcare system. We've built it around corrupt greedy businessmen and politicians profiting off the sick and dying, so that would all collapse. But I should also point out that most of our patients are not dying, even when we respond to 911 calls we don't often see real life or death emergencies, and if things have gotten that far (outside of massive multisystem traumas) it is usually due to a failure to find or treat a less severe problem. That being said, if prestidigitation can sterilize objects as part of its "cleaning" then it could save almost as many lives as spare the dying. Infection is a huge killer in hospitals, CLABSIs and CAUTIs (common hospital acquired infections that shouldn't exist if proper sterile technique or catheter replacement protocol was followed) would be essentially erased and sepsis would be a thing of the past. We wouldn't have to worry about antibiotic resistant superbugs or blood borne pathogens. I also can't stess enough how many times I wish I could use mending on various things in my ambulance. Many private ambulance companies don't invest enough in maintenance that lots of our trucks are running with check engine lights, jury rigged replacement parts, or just old equipment that should be replaced. Outside of maintenance, sometimes our equipment just fails. Wires, tablets/clipboards that you use for reports, oxygen regulators, BP cuffs, even my ventilator sometimes fails us in the field. A quick fix to all of these would make my job 10 times easier and probably save some lives (though less than spare the dying or prestidigitation). TLDR: all the top choices they mention would be AMAZING things to have in healthcare, especially emergency medicine but even in less emergent situations.

@Merilirem

7 күн бұрын

Spare the dying is my pick just so I never have to hold someone in my hands and watch them die. Assuming it stabilizes them you could just keep casting it if need be and the ambulance would make it to you. As long you can keep using it they shouldn't die from the kinds of things that kill most people. Its magic that stabilizes after all.

@dontmisunderstand6041

4 күн бұрын

Spare the Dying effectively just creates that medically induced coma. It's the same thing. CPR, that's effectively modern medicine's version of Revivify, a spell that brings people back from the dead if they died within the past few seconds, and their body isn't so badly damaged that they'd just die again anyway.

Fire truck rolls up, fire fighters jump out, all of them start spam casting Control Flames

@thebitterfig9903

6 күн бұрын

Does that work? Control Flames can only target a fire which can fit inside a 5-foot cube. Most fires that a fire truck would be called out for are bigger than that. Not saying it'd be a useless spell in real life, since it's basically a fire extinguisher for a small household fire, but that kind of firefighting probably needs more than cantrips to be effective.

@dodobarthel2249

6 күн бұрын

Add in shape water so you can move your water to split one big fire into multiple small ones that the collegues with control flames can handle...

Guidance. I'm needing it (also a +5% to +20% of success to everything would save so many headaches)

@2099Spartan

7 күн бұрын

Would be useful at work

@dontmisunderstand6041

4 күн бұрын

Most people don't generally fail at things in life. This is only a problem for absurdly incompetent people, and likely would make those people even more reckless and impulsive than they were before, making Guidance ACTIVELY MAKE THEIR LIFE WORSE.

Mending. I don't need much. I will want to use everything until its gone gone.

@alexmin4752

7 күн бұрын

IMO, electronics and other advanced mechanisms should be considered as magic items in DnD terms. They actually run on lightning energy. Basically it's only good for stuff that could be made in medeival era.

@Lonesomefly

7 күн бұрын

With mending, you are controlling chemical bonds. You are walking a nuclear reactor. You can mend diamonds together. If you are not careful, for sure you are on fbi list

@sir_wffles

7 күн бұрын

@@alexmin4752Gotta disagree here, I don’t know why electronics stuff would be considered “magic-y” and mending has to be for medieval stuff. There’s like no description for mending that implies that at all. Even if we take a step back and say electronics are considered “magic items” (despite being built using the physical and chemical properties of the material element themselves), mending can still fix magic items remember, it just can’t re-imbue magic. Considering I’m not being called a wizard or artificer irl when I use a phone or driver a car, I think mending has to take the cake here. (Not to mention the amount of bank you can make from repairing antiques like an ancient painting or pottery or a broken Stradivarius)

@Greytusks

7 күн бұрын

The problem with Mending is that it does not repair wear or material fatigue damage, only tears and breaks. And only on a single 'physical' break or tear at a time at time on top of it. It 'could' repair a tear caused by wear or fatigue, but the wear would remain and it will break again in a blink. 95% of what breaks in our daily life is due to wear or it's a break but the item gets shattered in so many piece it's not practical at all to find all pieces. That hole in your socks or shirt, most of the time it's wear of the fabric that over time thins it so much that it can't hold itself up anymore, not tear. Leaky faucet? Wear. Tears usually only occur during accidents, misuse or similar occurences.

@alexmin4752

7 күн бұрын

@@sir_wffles Ok, in this analogy we can say that the battery is the magic source and everything else is mundane/mechanical. But "Target: A single break or tear in an object you touch". If you break a phone there will be hundreds of conductive lines snapped. IMO, the wording implies you can fix something that's rather simple in design. Also, most devices aren't discarded due to physical damage but of malfunctions.

Early on in 5th edition when I was running Tyranny of Dragons, one of my players was playing a Barbarian/Warlock multiclass who wasn't the brightest - he.. realized that he could make dirt taste good with Prestidigitation. Thus was born the term "Prestidigi-Bad-Idea".

I feel obligated to mention that mage hand doesn’t have hitpoints. This means that it can touch some pretty dangerous stuff. An application I can think of is cooking where you could now grab pans straight out the oven or use it to add or removing food while deep frying. There’s probably other better uses but that’s the first that comes to mind

Mage hand can do dangerous stuff! It can also do stuff that’s hard to reach, like getting at a bolt inside an engine, it also doesn’t get tired…. you could do things like unplug a clogged drain. How many times do you need an extra hand to hold something? Mage hand is S tier!

It has to be either Prestidigitation or Guidance. You either always have perfectly tasting food or are just a little better at everything

Mage hand for changing light bulbs 15 feet in the air and other things that require reaching up 15-25 feet above your head!

@targetdreamer257

7 күн бұрын

Exactly. Especially useful for short people.

22:46 personally the reason why I argue that spare dying is more useful in a medical setting is because things go wrong quite often when it comes to blood loss and moisture loss that just can’t be fixed because once it goes so far, there’s no going back. For instance a burn unit. This would be soooo useful in a burn unit because once a burn goes so far there’s no going back at a can’t be fixed, but if you have a spare dying you can fix it.

@Merilirem

7 күн бұрын

This is what baffled me. They seem to think modern medicine is magic. Its not. People can die from complications or unknown reasons all the time. Modern medicine can't stop someone from dying. It can only try to fix what is killing them in time. Spare the dying just stops death. It stabilizes them which is a huge difference to someone dying. They could be bleeding out on the ground and spare the dying could just deny death until you stopped casting it. Healing and necromancy are the kinds of magic that go beyond what humanity can currently do. Its not at all comparable to convenience. Unless prestidigitation can actually clean radiation or toxins or microplastics from the earth, its not worth nearly as much.

Honestly prestigitation and mending would make life so easy and BTW shadows of Drakenheim is such a banger of the series so far I've only seen two episodes so far but it's amazing and i learned something Kelly's character designs somehow ends up being my favorite part of this channel keep up the good work Kelly and Monty

There's nothing better than prestidigitation, but my second choice is control flames, with guidance right behind that

@palatonian9618

7 күн бұрын

I think I go guidance followed closely by prestidigitation Shoutouts to mage hand and control flames.

@dontmisunderstand6041

4 күн бұрын

@@palatonian9618 Guidance is proactive, not reactive. Which massively restricts its usage and utility. And it often has no meaningful effect at all In fact, the math suggests it's almost never going to matter. For a 1 on the d4, it only matters 5% of the time, for the 2, 10% of the time, 15% and 20% for the 3 and 4. In effect, Guidance only has AN effect 12.5% of the time, roughly. Or, to put it into perspective, it's a waste of time and effort in 87.5% of cases. 7 out of 8 times, it's worthless.

Number 1 is far and away Prestidigitation (though for the cleaning it specifies nonliving matter so no replacing showers or brushing your teeth), but if you're doing the magic initiate thing of 2 cantrips than the second would be Mending easily. Third would be one of the three; Mage Hand (for shenanigans, teasing, and laziness around the house) Minor Illusion (for as Monty said about being a creative where I can just show what I'm thinking of instead of having to describe it) Dancing Lights (for no more light bill) I also saw someone comment on a Dimension20 short about the same concept to this that Spare the Dying would basically be Coma the Spell. And for True Strike, if you're in a combat sport True Strike could get you that the first hit knockout if you cast it just as the match starts.

Mending seems useful, but so many broken things are broken because they are missing something. I also don’t find that things break very often, and if you can only pick one cantrip it would be best to pick the most used one. Prestidigitation is the obvious first pick, but if I had a second choice it would be mage hand. I’m an artist, and having a third hand would be super helpful with everything. I think people are underestimating the handiness of having a third hand. My bard dnd character also uses mage hand in the bedroom lol.

Had this conversation many times and I think all of us decided prestidigitation was the way to go for most of the same reasons you guys landed on.

@singletona082

7 күн бұрын

It's so damned versitile for all manner of little annoyances.

@Merilirem

7 күн бұрын

I always land on spare the dying because it means you never have to watch someone die in your arms. That should be more than enough. Let alone the ability to help out at a hospital. No one would die during surgery as long as you kept casting. The doctors could finish and the patient would then be stable and fixed. Almost no chance things go wrong. Guidance is my next pick because it just makes you better at everything by a large margin. I can clean stuff on my own and make healthy tasty food. I can't be better at things than I am literally capable of being. Your limits as humans are set in stone. Guidance raises those beyond such limits even if you roll a 1.

I would also do prestidigitation, mending, and guidance. I write very complicated code for a living to make medicine and guidance would be amazing for that. Since it applies to that skill check I would use it before each coding session.

Very entertaining. One of my favorite videos. 1. Prestidigitation 2. Mending 3. Minor Illusion If Magic Initiate, Find Familiar

@timoth666is

7 күн бұрын

1. Prestidigitation 2. Guidance 3. Mending if Magic Initiate, Comprehend Languages and if given a second first level spell, Speak with Animals

Prestidigitation, clean wounds as well! Never worry about a cut or scrape getting infected!

@2MeterLP

6 күн бұрын

The spell states you clean an object. So not people. Maybe browse 4chan to become extremely sexist so you can cast it on women?

@dontmisunderstand6041

4 күн бұрын

Creatures are not objects.

@kylesavage6319

4 күн бұрын

@@dontmisunderstand6041 just view every wound as a thing. In game, every person is just a cog in the wheel so they aren’t a creature to them 😆. Though one could argue a scrape or a cut is a thing/object not a creature.

@dontmisunderstand6041

3 күн бұрын

@@kylesavage6319 Perspective does not change reality. Neither in real life nor the specific fictional game worlds these ideas come from.

Mending

@dragoninthewest1

7 күн бұрын

Oh yeah. Me: oh crap, I dropped another glass. Mending

@EliasMorals

7 күн бұрын

The amount of DSes I would fix with this...

@dragoninthewest1

7 күн бұрын

@@EliasMorals or old cds

Prestidigitation and start a cleaning business. Car detailing/car wash, house cleaning, dorm cleaning etc. Druidcraft and Mold Earth perfect for a landscaping business. Mending to start a repair business

@redbeard5939

7 күн бұрын

Prestidigitation and become a world famous chef

@Insnebob

7 күн бұрын

I've worked as in CNC machine repair. It is A LOT of money a year. 200k+ without fixing an 8 hour day in 1 minute.

@2MeterLP

6 күн бұрын

Spare the dying and become the worlds best paramedic.

@Johnhamsta

5 күн бұрын

The surface of a car is not a valid target for the spell, as it specifies an object less than or equal to 1 cubic foot. RaW does not permit the targeting of portions of a contiguous obeject. Parts of the car would be targetable, such as: screws, bolts, hubcaps, headrest, etc., as they are non-contiguous.

@2MeterLP

5 күн бұрын

Car wash doesnt seem like the most efficient use of magic. You gotta think bigger! Do something noone else can do! Clean things that are too delicate to clean the conventional way, like priceless paintings! Or remove stains that are hard to get out conventionally, like blood!

I do a lot of agriculture landscaping and construction, and clean drinking water isn’t always available to me, so my two cantrips would have to be Mould Earth and Prestidigitation, and my first level spell would have to be create/destroy water. Creating seed beds, digging out dirt for foundations, digging up root vegetables, watering my plants, access to clean water 24/7, and I can clean all the dirt off me afterwards. It’s too good to even think about.

As a nurse, Mage Hand would be so useful just to grab/hold that thing while my hands are full...but then prestidigitation would just clean up all my patients for me...that's a hard toss up. Spare the dying is ironic because if I had that, I would never send anyone to the ICU 😅 that would result in some strange staffing disturbances. I think I'd have to take guidance as my 3rd

No damage dealing cantrips? This is very Canadian of you! :D

@sharmakefarah2064

6 күн бұрын

To be fair, only Eldritch Blast is worth it, and I think the damage dealing cantrips are far less useful IRL primarily because of the verbal component, and in particular combat just isn't a part of a civilian's life almost all the time.

@dontmisunderstand6041

4 күн бұрын

Humans don't generally have a need to deal damage in real life. They go to jail or die if they try.

@Julia________

2 күн бұрын

​@@sharmakefarah2064 Eldritch blast specifically only can target creatures, so some others like fire bolt might have more practical uses. Considering 1d8 hp of a commoner, you don't really need d12 over a d10 either

@sharmakefarah2064

2 күн бұрын

@@Julia________ True, Fire Bolt definitely is the best generalist cantrip for a civilian focused on defense, though Eldritch Blast comes in a close second.

I loved this video guys I mean dudes Please do more stuff like this and what you started talking about in the end with the first level spells

I’m a janitor so prestidigitation would be phenomenal BUT I’d have to use it sparingly because if I was too supernaturally fast and thorough somebody would wanna see what I’m doing

@targetdreamer257

7 күн бұрын

That is a great point. I never thought of it like that.

Im a service technician so mage hand would be my number one pick every time. There are so many times where you can use a third hand just to hold something in place, put a bolt in while you hold the part in position, mark something, be much faster with cabeling or have a way more easy way when soldering thin wires. Prestidigitation would be my second pick and Mending my third.

Mage hand, i would steal so much.

@StriderZessei

7 күн бұрын

Remember the Mage Hand isn't invisible without the Arcane Trickster feature. People would see the spectral hand move from and to you.

@jaspermooren5883

7 күн бұрын

In fact, you can't even use sleight of hand with mage hand RAW unless you are an arcane trickster. So it would be a clumsy hand that everyone would immediately notice.

@StriderZessei

7 күн бұрын

@edwintaylor6891 the context of the discussion is based on how the spell is described in the books. The topic itself, by virtue of its very nature, includes the rules as written.

@Merilirem

7 күн бұрын

@@edwintaylor6891 It has to be rules as written or you have to logic things like magic not existing into the equation. The weave doesn't exist so arcane spells shouldn't work. Let alone divine.

@YMasterS

7 күн бұрын

​@edwintaylor6891 saying anything other than rules as written for this discussion is just so incredibly dumb. Like, omg, unbelievable levels of stupidity.

Most useful quality of life cantrip spells - prestidigitation - druidcraft - mending - message - mold earth - shape water - thaumaturgy - spare the dying - light - control flames - guidance - encode thoughts - dancing lights - hunter sense (Humblewood cantrip) - mage hand Least these are the ones I would consider. As for my tops choices, personally 1) Prestidigitation (of course) 2) Druidcraft (frankly being able to know the weather always and being able to grow things is too good to pass up, especially since I love herbalism irl) 3) Mage Hand (let’s be honest, this is amazing for short people and those who might have mobility issues, of which I am the short person in this case) With any additional it would be 4) mending 5) guidance 6) dancing lights 7) message 8) spare the dying 9) control flames 10) mold earth 11) shape water 12) light 13) encode thoughts (because that’s just neat to me) And that’s pretty much what I would be interested in.

I live in an area with a lot of dirt and gravel roads, Mold Earth would be SOOOoooo useful. "Oh is that pothole back? Not anymore!"

100% guidance. Reducing my chance of missing a diagnose by AT LEAST 25% is huge. Would easily become the best doctor in the area.

@TheLublume

7 күн бұрын

Also, spare the dying is not useful at all for saving patients. We can stabilize pretty well already, we need to know whats the issue to help them, otherwise they get stabilized and stay in a coma forever

@user-semenar

7 күн бұрын

@@TheLublume If other D&D rules apply, they will actually only be in coma for 1d4 hours.

@Merilirem

7 күн бұрын

@@TheLublume The idea of a coma counting as stabilized is concerning. I didn't think of that. Though I still think being able to force people into a stable condition is worth it.

Eldritch Blast, and just like in D&D, I'd commit nefarious acts

@2MeterLP

6 күн бұрын

There are plenty of ways to put holes in people without magic, though. At least take a damage cantrip that leaves no trace, like viscous mockery!

You should do this for every level of spell, and then, using the class that can get all or most of them (probably wizards, since its not sorcerers of the coast is it), make the best real life spellcaster for dnd, id probably say be a divination wizard, but id love to see the argument for each subclass of the chosen class

@obi-wan-jacobi840

7 күн бұрын

If they did every level, the last video would just be two seconds: “It’s Wish”

@Merilirem

7 күн бұрын

Healing until you can get crazy stuff like wish. Healing magic and necromancy completely go beyond what humanity can do.

@dontmisunderstand6041

4 күн бұрын

@@obi-wan-jacobi840 I highly doubt the video for level 4 spells would be as short as "The answer is Wish".

Please give us more of this I think we are all begging for more of this irl stuff please keep it up.

1. Prestidigitation 2. Mending 3. True Strike Prestidigitation because as a hobbyist cook, it would allow me not have to do things like clean the dishes, clean the stove, etc, while also enhancing the flavor of my cooking and also allowing me to vary the flavor for every single person. Also as a shade tree mechanic, prestidigitation to remove oil from my clothes, the vehicle I'm working on and myself would be amazing. Mending because as a mechanic, never having to deal with a broken bolt or damaged threads again would be amazing, not even getting into things like fixing busted/rotting seals and other rubber components. True strike because I'm also a hobbyist golfer and bowler and I would argue that striking a golf ball is an attack roll with a melee weapon on a tiny object while bowling is a ranged attack with a large object. Heck, I might even take up target shooting.

4:44 counter point if you’re in the military both cantrips are really handy so now I can walk around with no weapon in a hot zone and now every time we have to fill sandbags I can do it with no effort

@darcyrobbs6866

7 күн бұрын

dig a fox hole.

@TheHandgunhero

7 күн бұрын

These cantrips only have a range of 120 feet which doesn't help you if a dude is 50m away. Also 10 shots a minute was impressive 150 years ago. Nowadays you'd be suppressed up the wazoo if you weren't able to output more than 10 shots a minute.

@Merilirem

7 күн бұрын

Better to take spare the dying. Save your buddies.

If D&D cantrips were available in the REAL world the 3 most useful cantrips outside of combat might be prestidigitation, mending, and spare the dying.

Mage hand, prestidigitation, mending... Each of those have strong arguments. Prestidigitation for spot cleaning or changing the flavor of anything. Mage hand because I have lost track of how often I've needed a thing just a few feet out of reach, or needed a third hand. Mend has so many creative applications, but honestly anything to keep what I own in good repair

As a variant human taking magic initiate, I would take Find Familiar for my 1st level spell and prestidigitation and mending for my cantrips.

Prestidigitation for sure. It can “soil” pants. It can make sounds and smells. Nobody would be safe from my inner 12yr old. 😬

@Grooveworthy

6 күн бұрын

"What did you do?!" "I just shat your pants."

a LOT of people die because they cant get to the hospital in time, you'd have a moral obligation to take spare the dying

@Krater84

7 күн бұрын

But for vast majority of people, it would be a once in a lifetime (at most) opportunity to use it. One could equally say that you have a moral obligation to learn CPR - which vast majority of people do not feel morally obliged to do. I think most ethicists would say that based on a great rarity of encountering a dying person, you do not have a moral requirement to put any effort in addressing that situation. Use your phone which is on your person? Sure. Learn CPR, pack a trauma kit, carry a defibrillator with you...? No.

@pairot01

7 күн бұрын

Stop repeating what BLM said. We get it, you like the guy, but think for yourself.

@bingus549

7 күн бұрын

@@Krater84 car accidents happen all the time everywhere. I drove by three of them this month one of em was bad. i don't think it would be a once in a lifetime use at all.

@bingus549

7 күн бұрын

@@pairot01 huh?

@Krater84

7 күн бұрын

@@bingus549 But I’m guessing you don’t feel like you must take an emergency medicine course, right?

If we are talking Magic Initiate, Unseen Servant has been my favorite spell for over thirty years. 1) Mending 2) Prestidigitation Prestidigitation is wonderful. You will be grateful everyday as it improves your quality of life; until you blow a head gasket fifty miles from home, hydroplane on the freeway, have your heating/cooling system break down during extreme weather conditions, or have your oven go out when you are hosting a holiday feast. If those sound oddly specific it is because I know people that have experienced those things.

Spare the Dying

@erelat

7 күн бұрын

My teenage son said Vicious Mockery

@muddlewait8844

7 күн бұрын

This is the only right answer. They’d build a high-risk surgical center *around* you.

@pairot01

7 күн бұрын

​@@muddlewait8844spare the dying doesn't heal people. You take them from critical condition (i.e. they are going to die within seconds) to stable, but they aren't healed, it doesn't remove deseases, it doesn't mend broken bones. The ONLY use is if you are an emergency responder.

First. Presidgitation for the win

That was a great video. The topic made for some really fun banter. 1. Prestidigitation

Produce flame for an easy god-exit. Or maybe minor illusion for some omnipotence. Or prestidigitation bc there's no limits on the sensory effect other than it has to be harmless.

Ray of Frost and I would get a high end bartending job.

@pairot01

7 күн бұрын

What does Ray of Frost do for a bartender?

@philswiftdestroyerofworlds1988

7 күн бұрын

​@@pairot01 I suppose to insta freeze drinks if that's ever needed But idk not too sure on what OP was going for

@mufasafalldown8401

7 күн бұрын

@@pairot01 no more shaking a stupid silver can around to chill drinks. Obviously not taking the thought exercise too seriously.

@mufasafalldown8401

7 күн бұрын

​@@philswiftdestroyerofworlds1988 it's currently 111 degrees here. I may slightly overvalue ice 😆

@philswiftdestroyerofworlds1988

7 күн бұрын

​@@mufasafalldown8401 Haha love the creativity on your choice

First?

Prestidigitation would be my first pick as well. Mending and Guidance is fighting each other for second place. For magic initiates free 1st lvl spell, Find familiar would be a great spell. Imagine all the shenanigans you could do, not to mention the fact that you could get a overhead view of any situation as well as look at yourself without a mirror. It probably wouldn't die ever, as you could just keep it out of danger, and since it's a magical creature it probably lives a long time. Tenser's floating disk, or comprehend languages would be very nice as well. A healing spell would maybe be the best option though, as magical healing would be invaluable. Of the 1st lvl options, goodberry would probably be the best option, as 10 hp guaranteed with the additional effect that you can sustain 10 people with it. When a person has only a few hit points, it would be overpowered. (False life would be very nice as well, although it only lasts an hour, while goodberry lasts 24, and also it is purely selfish)

I like Minor Illusion. I relate to Monty a lot - I'm a Dungeon Master and creative. I could just create a rough concept of a website, a monster, a D&D map - any idea - snap the illusion with my phone, and have it forever! It'd be so immersive and save me so much prep time for D&D too!

The idea of opening a cleaning business and making bank with pestidigitation sounds awesome You could literally clean an entire city's worth of stuff in like an hour, charge per job rather than per hour and you are now rich

My Magic Initiate loadout would be: - Prestidigitation - Mending - Comprehend Languages I would become an amazing archeologist/historian! There are many undeciphered ancient scripts in the world (Wikipedia lists more than fifty!) and many other scripts that we have possibly deciphered correctly but we can't be sure. Choose any artifact with writing on it. Prestidigitation to clean it perfectly without causing damage. Mending to repair it perfectly without causing damage. (multiple castings) Comprehend languages to translate it.

Oh, that's fun. If we're talking about Magic Initiate, then for sure Find familiar Prestidigitation Mending I know spare the dying is super-effective, but that's too much pressure for me: even if I'll be working 24/7, I won't have the time to save everyone

This is probably one of my favorite videos of yours. So simple but so entertaining. Thanks for being you!

Please do this with all the spell levels. I think the more powerful the spell, the more fun conversation!!

@dontmisunderstand6041

4 күн бұрын

To a point. Wish is crazy good, and none of the other level 9 spells are versatile enough to warrant discussion.

@musicmonster6999

4 күн бұрын

9th levels are always in another league of conversation anyway, and they could always do it "if we didn't pick wish"

Mending is super useful in many situations

This video was super fun, you should do this with each spell level.

For background I’m a house painting contractor so this influences things: prestiditation > mending > mage hand, the first two you guys explained well enough, but mage hand: could hold another brush and cut highs while I’m cutting lows, get in difficult spots, eliminate the need for a ladder by rolling high, also when cooking, fine dice on onions boom done across the room, stir one pot while I’m working on another boom

Probably my favorite video of yours in awhile, it’s fun to just listen to you guys theorize about real life stuff with the dnd context. Would 110% want to listen to the variant human load out video

Number 1 pick is mending. I am a technician. Sometimes, things break and need replacement. Having new parts flown in overnight is expensive and slows down our work. Number 2 pick is prestidigitation. It is called "minor wish" for a reason. Number 3 is control flames. Mostly for the show I could put on around the campfire.

1. Prestidigitation 2. Minor illusion 3. Mending. Great video looking forward to seeing similar reviews of spells of all the levels

Loved this video, absolutely electric. These are fun in between all the discussions of the new DnD one classes and the Grim Hollow classes.

The old school "suggestion" would be my favorite every day use go-to.

@WhimsicalINTP

5 күн бұрын

To use on yourself only. Right?

Given machining small parts… mending would become the most wonderful thing ever. No more hit marks, no more nicks, no more scuffs. Let alone the increase on my inserts longevity, increasing the reliability and accuracy of everything being made

Definitely love these style of videos!!

Mending would be OUTSTANDING for all the minis I have to put together. Especially after they've been broken by my cat. No more superglue for me!

Oddly, this has been my favourite episode for a while haha. Love ya work dudes

keep having fun!

Kelly's look is on point today with astronauts and elder gods in black and pink contrast! Lookin' fine my guy, very thematic!

Before i watch: This is the best idea for a dnd video i came across in a long time

This was super fun thanks dudes!

Monty’s shirt is giving me hardcore Dan Flashes vibes and I’m here for it.

As an architect I would benefit so much from minor illusion. I could instantly create models, views and drowings to show not only to clients but also construction workers when stuff need to be clarified, and even photograph these for printing. You could even use the illusion as a guide for modeling or sculpting.

Argument for Resistance. That one guy who takes all of your information when you see your doctor.

I really enjoyed this one guys, thanks!

"I'd be hard-pressed not to pick Prestidigitation just for the dishes" is the quote the rest of this video may as well have been built around.

One thing about Mage Hand, it could be incredibly useful for people with limited mobility! The extra range when you're bedridden or using a mobility aid would be amazing. My top three are Prestidigitation, Mending, and Mage Hand.

Prestidigitation hands down! I can’t even tell you how many discussions we’ve had about this.

Great video idea! Love the additional idea too! Mine would be Healing Word for the 1st level spell Prestidigitation and Mending for cantrips. Though if Mold Earth was permanent changes to the ground, I'd consider that one because of the financial benefits. Imagine doing precision land leveling work for construction sites and farms... all by magical means. No equipment expenses or contract labor to pay out.

My personal considerations: Produce Flame - Provides utility as well as "offense" in self-defense situations. Prestidigitation - No further discussion needed. Minor Illusion - More useful than it was given credit for. Mage Hand - Useful. Weight limit and lack of implied Dexterity is its limiting factor. Spare the Dying - If you are a trauma doctor, EMT, or Combat medic there is no other choice. #1 Produce Flame #2 Prestidigitation #3 Minor Illusion

This topic is SO GREAT! So fun. More like this! Although, I did think this would have been an amazing topic to do on a panel at a con w/ a live audience.

Thank you for your fun ideas

RE: Magic Initiate picks - Prestidigitation, Mending/Guidance, and Comprehend Languages. I'd be so incredibly productive and could operate in pretty much any work environment and with any staff.

@Grooveworthy

6 күн бұрын

I don't care about people so much, so my once per day spell would probably be speak with animals. Then I could tell my dog that I love her every day.