*this list was made while listening to the video* Use shape water to make a 'potion of trust issues' or a 'poison of hydration'. You can also make an 'ice lockbox' for added security (a spell focus, usually, is non-living material) or an 'ice door blocker/weight'. Soak a door/crossbow or fill a lock with water, then freeze it. Ice expands cracking wood and breaking mechanisms. Maybe ice ball bearings/caltrops. Thin ice sheet for a pitfall trap. Abandoned house your shelter? Ice windows with varying opacity. You can make a Diving Bell out of ice(that you can see though). Logs were used to roll heavy objects, make ice logs. Ice block + minor illusion, someone/something is trapped in a block of ice. Ice bottles/jars that can be thrown.(change opacity to hide contents)
In my party we found a way to use shapewater offensively with some preparation. when we ambushed a cave entrance we placed water barrels in edvence. when the anemy started to come out of the cave we just droped ice squares on them and if they fell to one on the trap holes we digged we just dropped it over thier heads.
Aggghhhh thank you for saying so! If there is anything in particular we should do more of? We are always all ears for any feedback. Particularly Travis, his ears just keep growing.
Awesome again guys, addition things to do with shape water, create water statues. Change colour so they look more humanoid. Buy clothes to dress them up, create a terracotta like army of ice men. Have them stand on battlements in a seige to look like your numbers have a increased. Create ice sculptures for a party. Use it to gain favour by gifting it to the local noble. Freeze a potion of healing so a target can’t drink it to heal.
Damn, these are all awesome! The freezing potions is diabolical. Maybe for a role-playing flair, a character could be making ice-men targets for the party to practice their attacks on. Or the ol' slide something heavy on ice. ;) Nothing grinds a game to a halt quicker than when you try to slide the huge stone object with ice and water, only for the DM to call BS, so you link them to a National Academy of Sciences research paper that concludes that 11 ton stones could have likely been moved using your method in 1500 BC in the Forbidden City in China. Then you drop this link on them and mic drop*: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3864338/ What do you think Rodney? *we do not endorse being antagonistic to a DM or slowing gameplay for the sake of being right.
You can have no more than 2 non-instantaneous effects active at a time. And a potion of healing isn’t water. It’s what makes creativity with this cantrip so challenging: You have to work within the restrictions.
Gabriel is going to be strutting around Saltmarsh like a borderline superhero water-bender! Woooooo congrats! Any moments come up in the course of your adventures where you wish you had shape water already?
@@HookandChance we are ligit on our second session so not yet wait actually yea there is a hole in decent sized hole in the floor which I could use it to create an ice bridge would probably prevent like 10 damage. I could've used it to may e disperse a h Mob of spider. Gosh really need to think about more ways to use it thanks for the many ideas
i play shape water as being able to move away from the ground, but only straight up, you can make it climb walls and hills with an up at an angle, but the only way to make it fly would be STRAIGHT up
And an Olympic pool is about 660,000. Now the real question, if the doors and windows are water tight, how long would it take to fill Strahds castle? 🤔 🏰
What was the most ingenious use of Shape Water you've seen?
*this list was made while listening to the video*
Use shape water to make a 'potion of trust issues' or a 'poison of hydration'.
You can also make an 'ice lockbox' for added security (a spell focus, usually, is non-living material)
or an 'ice door blocker/weight'.
Soak a door/crossbow or fill a lock with water, then freeze it.
Ice expands cracking wood and breaking mechanisms.
Maybe ice ball bearings/caltrops. Thin ice sheet for a pitfall trap.
Abandoned house your shelter? Ice windows with varying opacity.
You can make a Diving Bell out of ice(that you can see though).
Logs were used to roll heavy objects, make ice logs.
Ice block + minor illusion, someone/something is trapped in a block of ice.
Ice bottles/jars that can be thrown.(change opacity to hide contents)
Actually been super excited for you guys to talk about this cantrip!!
Was the wait worth it? Did we do the hype justice?
@@HookandChance definitely! Wondering if tavern brawler would apply to weapons created from shape water like a ice dart
In my party we found a way to use shapewater offensively with some preparation. when we ambushed a cave entrance we placed water barrels in edvence. when the anemy started to come out of the cave we just droped ice squares on them and if they fell to one on the trap holes we digged we just dropped it over thier heads.
Love it when a plan comes together. Thats the sign of a great DM. Go give them a responsibly socially distanced hug :)
So why not just drop the barrels full of water?
Omg this channel is amazing, I'm definitely recommending this to players
Aggghhhh thank you for saying so! If there is anything in particular we should do more of? We are always all ears for any feedback. Particularly Travis, his ears just keep growing.
Awesome again guys, addition things to do with shape water, create water statues. Change colour so they look more humanoid. Buy clothes to dress them up, create a terracotta like army of ice men. Have them stand on battlements in a seige to look like your numbers have a increased. Create ice sculptures for a party. Use it to gain favour by gifting it to the local noble. Freeze a potion of healing so a target can’t drink it to heal.
Damn, these are all awesome! The freezing potions is diabolical.
Maybe for a role-playing flair, a character could be making ice-men targets for the party to practice their attacks on.
Or the ol' slide something heavy on ice. ;) Nothing grinds a game to a halt quicker than when you try to slide the huge stone object with ice and water, only for the DM to call BS, so you link them to a National Academy of Sciences research paper that concludes that 11 ton stones could have likely been moved using your method in 1500 BC in the Forbidden City in China. Then you drop this link on them and mic drop*: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3864338/
What do you think Rodney?
*we do not endorse being antagonistic to a DM or slowing gameplay for the sake of being right.
You can have no more than 2 non-instantaneous effects active at a time. And a potion of healing isn’t water. It’s what makes creativity with this cantrip so challenging: You have to work within the restrictions.
My fav
Of all the spells out there, why this one? We mean... it's an amazing spell but what's your reason?
I never thought much of this but now I'm definitely going to use it especially since we are in Salt marsh
Gabriel is going to be strutting around Saltmarsh like a borderline superhero water-bender! Woooooo congrats!
Any moments come up in the course of your adventures where you wish you had shape water already?
@@HookandChance we are ligit on our second session so not yet wait actually yea there is a hole in decent sized hole in the floor which I could use it to create an ice bridge would probably prevent like 10 damage. I could've used it to may e disperse a h
Mob of spider. Gosh really need to think about more ways to use it thanks for the many ideas
i play shape water as being able to move away from the ground, but only straight up, you can make it climb walls and hills with an up at an angle, but the only way to make it fly would be STRAIGHT up
Remember:
Simple shapes.
No more than 2 non-instantanious effects active at a time.
These restrictions seem to get overlooked a lot.
Great reminder! Though at our table rule of cool overrides the fine print WAY too often. These players are getting away with all kinds of nonsense.
A bathtub is about 80 gallons. A Jacuzzi is about 400 gallons.
And an Olympic pool is about 660,000. Now the real question, if the doors and windows are water tight, how long would it take to fill Strahds castle? 🤔 🏰
What nonsense can you pull off with glyph of warding and shape water?
Haha we dunno. You tell us 😉