Digital Mysticism

personal collection of D&D #info on Spellcasting, along with jokes & selected artwork of magic (I don't claim ownership of anything)

[virtuousguru]

“Nothing is worth more in life, than wisdom.”

[nailsofvecna]

Enjoy the comfort of a nice bubbly bath, anywhere you go! Keep those pearly whites clean, even in the darkest dungeon! Never allow your nose to go unpowdered again!!

[nailsofvecna]

As much as I love the image of perfectly conditioned goblin hair, I do actaully have a game-designer-mode response, for those who might be worried about this...

It's a cantrip because it's the kind of all-day-every-day spell that you'd want on tap. The kind of spell that's burned into your bones; that defines who you are as a mage. Do you have flames at your fingertips with firebolt or produce flame? Are you a showman, always casting prestidigitation and minor illusion? Or are you that one mage who always has perfectly conditioned hair and bars of soap to hand out whenever the party comes across a freshwater creek?

I can't imagine in what context you'd need to care about a volume of suds... Maybe to make a smokescreen, or host some kind of foam party?? In any case, I would think the time to turn soap into suds would be the bigger issue than volume. Turning a pound of soap into suds by hand would take several minutes, right? If you've got 10 minutes to get something set up (i.e. the time you'd need for a ritual spell), you can probably handwave the volume as being 'enough to do whatver the player wants'. And if you've got a machine to do it faster, I think we're getting outside the realm of what the written rules can be expected to handle.

And your 'drown a room of goblins' scenario doesn't seem like much of a problem to me. A pound of conditioner is about a pint of volume - it'd take over 6,000 castings to fill one five-foot cube! That's 10 person-hours of continuous casting to fill one grid square!! I think the goblins would notice the very slowly rising tide of conditioner before it became a threat and, if they physically can't escape your (checks notes) supervillain drowning chamber, why not just fill it with normal water/acid/lava without using any magic at all? Furthermore, existing canon cantrips like mold earth and shape water are already capable of doing similar things much faster.

[mtg-art-daily]

Circle of Protection: Black

Artist: Jesper Myrfors

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

The Preacher - Owen Jones

beautiful deeply embossed wooden covers 1849

[gurlu]

I'm cooking and I'm eating at the same time.

[wizardsspellbook]

Spells for the Aspiring Vampire by Monkey DM

[pi-slices]

Inside Twist - 230517

[wizardsspellbook]

Lore of Light by Star Sail Games

[pi-slices]

Glass Rainbow - 230516

[wizardsspellbook]

Storm Pillar by surrealistik

[emly-seppele-deactivated2026033]

You left your books open and I snuck in for a little looksie

[wizardsspellbook]

Bardic Cantrips by Unfired Arcana

[dannydarkoxo-deactivated2025021]

[wizardsspellbook]

Ghostly Advance by Sunbear Games

[neon-wonderlands]

[wizardsspellbook]

Coronal Lance by Sunbear Games

[talonabraxas]

“Platform of Elevation”