• paddirn@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    What is the limit of Water to other ingredients in an open container? And what’s the limit on the “container”? If a person/living thing is sitting in an open container, could you dehydrate them by destroying the water in their body? If that’s too far, what’s the limit? Suppose it’s a mix of 50% salt and 50% water, still good? What if it’s water with dirt in it? What if it’s really muddy water? Can you destroy/hurt a water elemental with it (supposing it were in an open container)?

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      10 months ago

      Hmm, a body has several holes in it… it arguable is an open container, made of animal hide.

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      10 months ago

      These are important questions that will be asked by your players if they haven’t gone there already. DMs, pay attention. Have a solid argument planned out beforehand or suffer the consequences. The thirsty, withered consequences.

      Personally, I argue that Create/Destroy Water can’t target a creature therefore get fucked, cast it somewhere else or pick a different spell. Why that is, scientifically? No idea. Same reason you can’t Revivify a kitchen table. Logic dictates that you could turn it back into a tree, in practice nothing happens. It’s A Secret To Everyone™

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      10 months ago

      My table’s necromancer has a homebrew staff formerly belonging to a mummy-priest that allows him to cast destroy water, and it becomes an at will spell if used on a corpes to mummify it. The demon lord of drought and the patron of mummifcation demands it.

      It allows for convenient storage and transport of the corpses he …procures…