Talk:Soaking Hands (5e Spell)
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Hydration to Plants?[edit]
Why not just water the plant with the water? This clause seems unnecessary to me. If you have a pint of water, why envelope your hands and magically apply the water to the plant if you can just pour the water onto the plant? Additional fluff-type stuff and/or clarification may be required. --IntellectMaster (talk) 16:52, 26 April 2021 (MDT)
- I'll twiddle that a little bit, make it something more generic. Endermage77 (talk) 19:40, 26 April 2021 (MDT)
- Even with that change, it's still not important enough to even be part of the spell. There is no tangible benefit being described that's different from just watering the plant or drinking the water, except maybe that you and every creature around you never needs to actually drink water again because being touched by magic water somehow makes you not need hydration? (Since the material component isn't consumed regardless of how you use the spell.) So, I guess I'm going to go back on what I just said and say something different by saying there IS a mechanical benefit: never needing to care about keeping track of water, for you and every creature and plant around you, for free. If this is the intent, I still have a nitpick: the 10 magic berries from the 1st-level goodberry specify how much of an effect they have on the creature's basic needs (enough for one day), while this spell leaves it ambiguous. "Providing hydration" could mean anything between 1 oz. worth of water and 100 gallons worth of water, or 1 minute's worth of hydration or 1 year's worth of it per casting. If that's not the intent, then I've got nothing more to critique on. (It's otherwise a pretty darn good spell. It's just this hydration quackery that's getting to me.) --IntellectMaster (talk) 17:38, 27 April 2021 (MDT)
- :) Endermage77 (talk) 19:51, 27 April 2021 (MDT)
- Even with that change, it's still not important enough to even be part of the spell. There is no tangible benefit being described that's different from just watering the plant or drinking the water, except maybe that you and every creature around you never needs to actually drink water again because being touched by magic water somehow makes you not need hydration? (Since the material component isn't consumed regardless of how you use the spell.) So, I guess I'm going to go back on what I just said and say something different by saying there IS a mechanical benefit: never needing to care about keeping track of water, for you and every creature and plant around you, for free. If this is the intent, I still have a nitpick: the 10 magic berries from the 1st-level goodberry specify how much of an effect they have on the creature's basic needs (enough for one day), while this spell leaves it ambiguous. "Providing hydration" could mean anything between 1 oz. worth of water and 100 gallons worth of water, or 1 minute's worth of hydration or 1 year's worth of it per casting. If that's not the intent, then I've got nothing more to critique on. (It's otherwise a pretty darn good spell. It's just this hydration quackery that's getting to me.) --IntellectMaster (talk) 17:38, 27 April 2021 (MDT)
