Talk:Parlour Tricks (3.5e Feat)

Power

Prestidigitation as a constant effect eliminates environmental damage entirely, allows you to use Frostburn feats in the desert, allows you to have arrows constantly in hand removing the move action to pull them out and replacing it with a non-action. Not even desert/arctic creatures can ignore the heat/cold and most feats related to weather only give a bonus against it, and that last bit with the arrows is a feat all it's own and this feats gives a +2 DC to tell the spell cast which is another feat.

Here is a direct transcript of what prestidigitations can do: Prestidigitations are minor tricks that novice spellcasters use for practice. Once cast, a prestidigitation spell enables you to perform simple magical effects for 1 hour. The effects are minor and have severe limitations. A prestidigitation can slowly lift 1 pound of material. It can color, clean, or soil items in a 1-foot cube each round. It can chill, warm, or flavor 1 pound of nonliving material. It cannot deal damage or affect the concentration of spellcasters. Prestidigitation can create small objects, but they look crude and artificial. The materials created by a prestidigitation spell are extremely fragile, and they cannot be used as tools, weapons, or spell components. Finally, a prestidigitation lacks the power to duplicate any other spell effects. Any actual change to an object (beyond just moving, cleaning, or soiling it) persists only 1 hour. ... So to address your first point about ignoring environmental damage, prestidigitation cannot duplicate other spell effects - there is a spell that allows the caster to ignore environmental affects (can't find it right now) therefore prestidigitation cannot help with that. The spell also does not allow the caster to make weapons, last I checked arrows are weapons, so your second point is refuted. For your last point, it actually raises the dc by 5... zippity do da - unless you are facing someone who constantly counterspells your spells, this little extra is mostly flavour. As far as the power of prestidigitation, as long as the pc planned in advance the spell would be available for an hour anyways. So unless you have better reasons for claiming this is over powered, I think I have successfully refuted all points. --Calidore Chase (talk) 07:49, 3 May 2015 (MDT)

I tried to find out what the poster meant about Frostburn feats, I checked dndtools but couldn't find anything. I also couldn't see how the other effects mentioned would be possible. Thanks for checking, Calidore. Marasmusine (talk) 10:10, 3 May 2015 (MDT)