Encode thoughts 5e12/24/2022 ![]() “But it’s just a little flame in the palm of my hand!” you cry. If you want to use a cantrip ability, even a very very small one, it will cost you a whole action. And this is because, while I’ve been referring to them as free, cantrips do have cost, and in the heat of battle, their cost draws from your most precious and limited resource: actions. Unless a cantrip is exactly the right thing for the job you need at that exact time, it is rarely the right move to bust out while your companions are slinging spells and swinging swords. If you’re in the middle of a fight, you’re wanting to select the best spell to do the most amount of damage or have the greatest effect on the situation, to your advantage of course. A natural flow, not a break in tempo.Ībout pacing during a battle- here’s where cantrips usually get put to one side to make way for the big guns. When the time comes to pull one of those into your melee to deal some damage, you’ll want the carnotaurus tearing it up, not the penguin flipping about. Comparatively, spells are like a pen full of various carnivorous dinosaurs. No one would say no to a penguin, right? But if you’re in the middle of fighting a demogorgon, you don’t want a penguin by your side. Penguin -vs- CarnotaurusĪ cantrip is like a penguin. A spell costs you something.Ī spell usually takes various components, and uses your character’s spell slots, a limited and precious resource when trying to pace out your attacks in the heat of battle. They cost nothing, not even a spell slot, so fire away. They’re not meant to strike the killing blow, and not meant to do any real impressive effects. What is the difference between Cantrips and spells?Ī cantrip is a free and usually weak bit of magic. ![]() You don’t have to be a wizard to know cantrips, and many classes will have one or two for you to try. Getting to know these handy tools will let you keep a trick or two up your sleeve to use whenever you want, as much as you want. Particularly if they are part of a guild that is legendarily known for this tactic.Cantrips are a Dungeons & Dragons spell you can cast repeatedly in the game, with no cost and no preparation needed. Its not irrefutable evidence by itself admittedly, but just because a person can't remember the crime, doesn't mean they didn't do it. More to the point there is no way to cast this cantrip repeatedly to erase the knowledge that you have cast this cantrip at least once. But the user would still remember using the cantrip and passing those thoughts along and to whom. ![]() Sure, the user might not remember committing that act of espionage as they have encoded those thoughts and passed them on. It also might be worth mentioning that this isn't actually game breaking in terms of crime plots. So in that respect the length is variable but also a discrete portion of time measured in minutes as I can't remember every word of that lecture I just attended. When I go to my bedroom to eat my toast though, is another memory. Talking to my roommate one morning as I make toast for example. Think of it this way, life might be a string of events (much of which we blur out over time) but our memories are those singular events. I don't personally think limiting this cantrip to 30 seconds is fair but at the same time I don't think you could honestly commit more then a couple minutes to any one strand. What would your limits on the spell be? Could a person with Keen Mind cram a book in one casting? Would it be difficult to remember every detail of a foreign memory? Could happy memories be bought and sold on the black market? Maybe such a thing is sold publicly, and there's a heavy tax on those buying strands? In Guildmasters Guide to Ravnica only certain people can get the spell, but in other (homebrew) worlds the spell could play a major part of the story. It seems more like a first level spell to me. ![]() It's up to DM interpenetration, which is for the best, but I still find it crazy this is a cantrip. With a casting times of 6 seconds it wouldn't be to hard to believe that some wizards-in-training would be using this cantrip to cram for tests (if they could cast the spell.) Unless you've memorized it, you're not likely to quote many pages of a book, so obviously there's a limit to the spell based on how well a person can remember something.Ĭonsidering the insane 8 hour duration of the spell (double that for your meta-magic using Sorcerer), and the fact you can (I assume) cast it multiple times, you could possibly receive 3 to 5 minutes per strand of memory, or a couple sentences per message. aside from the feat Keen Mind, most people have an average memory, with some adventurers being above average (depending if they take notes or not.) ![]() A memory, an idea, or a message from your mind ![]()
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