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Purple Dragon Knight
Master of Realmslore
Canada
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 Posted - 25 Feb 2008 : 21:12:01
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Absolutely! Dancing Lights is a cantrip but it's far from useless!!! light up your enemies from a carefully chosen hidden position, and move the "spotlight" while your friends pepper them with arrows! he he he! my favorite gnomish trick! 
(throw in a few ghost sounds... and it's utter chaos!!) |
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Stonwulfe
Seeker
Canada
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Posted - 25 Feb 2008 : 21:24:37
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One of my favorite nasties with Cantrips is to set up a large number of very obvious, very securely rooted deadfall traps in a gorge. The boulders, logs, and dead ogre bodies should weigh enough that the anchor chain will strain (but not break) a water-soaked wooden peg. The peg, of course, acts as the lynchpin.
The peg, when hit with a mallet, won't move. The trap, with a little acting, will appear to not have worked, and the enemy will laugh and rush in. However, you follow this up by using ray of frost on the wood-soaked peg and CRACK, you got yourself one busted chain and a whole army of dead baddies. |
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Purple Dragon Knight
Master of Realmslore
Canada
1796 Posts |
Posted - 25 Feb 2008 : 23:15:48
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Geez! talk about a Road Runner moment!  |
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Aureus
Learned Scribe
Luxembourg
125 Posts |
Posted - 26 Feb 2008 : 18:08:37
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wow, it seems I set loose an avalanche
PS: I was alos thinking about orisons but hadn't thought any prerequisitions so far |
That is not the weirdest thing that happened to me |
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Iliyan
Acolyte
Croatia
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Posted - 28 Feb 2008 : 09:30:08
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Well, Stonwulfe's example of cantrip power is my immage of magic in the world of DnD...
If you use it in inventive ways, you are rewarded, and if you dont, then you better have your back covered!
If I would increase the effectiveness of Magic in a campaign, giving unlimited cantrips/orisons to trained casters could very well end up with a Terry Pratchet world >< Magic pollution would be HUUGe, since any caster of lvl 1 would be unbalanced, however, if you add it to players only... now thats a different idea, would add much more magic into the player's lives, and not to mention fun!
Ray of frost on the glass of water next to someone, and then blame them for breaking the cup, and paying for it! :D
Could make loooads of bar fights that way! :D |
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