Prestidigitation. No more dirty dishes or bland food.

You know you're an adult when you're offered a magic power and your top choice is doing house chores.

"I'd be hard-pressed not to pick Prestidigitation just for the dishes" is the quote the rest of this video may as well have been built around.

My Magic Initiate loadout would be: - Prestidigitation - Mending - Comprehend Languages I would become an amazing archeologist/historian! There are many undeciphered ancient scripts in the world (Wikipedia lists more than fifty!) and many other scripts that we have possibly deciphered correctly but we can't be sure. Choose any artifact with writing on it. Prestidigitation to clean it perfectly without causing damage. Mending to repair it perfectly without causing damage. (multiple castings) Comprehend languages to translate it.

Doctor here. Spare the dying would be useful in emergency situations. So like it's actually quite difficult and delicate work to "stabilise" someone. The knowledge required to manage a first aid situation isn't too heavy but once someone is in an ED it gets very complicated. Also the nature of these emergencies usually means the situation is chaotic and there's a constant need for quick thinking and adaptability which is *really* difficult while someone is dying in front of you. There's also less obvious things; a team of people with diverse skills that can be difficult to manage is needed, the situations this takes place in are usually complex and stressful and mistakes are easily made. There's also no guarantee that effective treatment exists for the thing this patient has. So to have one person to be able to just decide the patient is stable and have it be so would be amazing. The other side is the cost, actually stabilising someone in hospital might need the involvement of dozens of different professionals, most of whom have advanced degrees and high earning potentials in private land and who demand a premium to do a stressful and unpleasant job where night shifts are a regular occurrence and where they regularly watch people die. Also the cost of the stuff and equipment and drugs and cost of the people required to make sure all the stuff and drugs and people are there, effective and accessible at all times. Compare that to one guy, who needed four years to learn one cantrip and can now just decide that a patient is stable. Sounds *amazing*

Getting up and walking 30 feet to grab something might not be a big deal to _you,_ but as someone with muscular dystrophy who uses a wheelchair, Mage Hand would be _life changing_ for me. I've got a dozen or more long handled tools around my house that I use for everything from getting dressed, going to the bathroom, getting stuff out of cabinets/drawers, and Mage Hand could replace _all_ of them. It could also do a whole bunch of things I currently need another person to help me with. Example: repositioning my wheelchair footrests Prestidigitation would be a close second, simply because it would save me the ordeal of getting in and out of the shower/bath.

One thing about Mage Hand, it could be incredibly useful for people with limited mobility! The extra range when you're bedridden or using a mobility aid would be amazing. My top three are Prestidigitation, Mending, and Mage Hand.

I played a warlock who used minor illusion to mimic voices (a very often overlooked portion of the spell) and mask of many faces to be the ultimate at deep fakes at level 1 (free feat to get the invocation). Then at level 2 I took misty visions to become more than just a grifter, but a pop up theatre company. The 15 foot cube is plenty of stage for a single actor and can be popped up in a few seconds, changed in a few seconds, and costs nothing. It was great.

Fire truck rolls up, fire fighters jump out, all of them start spam casting Control Flames

I feel obligated to mention that mage hand doesn’t have hitpoints. This means that it can touch some pretty dangerous stuff. An application I can think of is cooking where you could now grab pans straight out the oven or use it to add or removing food while deep frying. There’s probably other better uses but that’s the first that comes to mind

As a paramedic, spare the dying would be the hardest part of my job done. The rest is talking to people, first aid, and driving a truck

my level 1 spell would most definitely be goodberry. You have any idea how often I wander around my kitchen feeling mildly hungry but unable to decide what to eat? Boom. Goodberry

Being able to 100% stabilize a patient every 6 seconds would greatly reduce the mortality in a busy trauma hospital. It would also make numerous highly trained medical professionals from codes available for working on what to do to actually get the patient to recover. We can already clean things. The only benefit to Prestidigitation would be if it could clean a burn victim's wounds with less pain than current techniques.

Mage Hand would be great as a blue collar worker. You could touch something electrical without worrying about getting shocked or electrocuted. Or you can grab a tool that's not next to you. Or get to something just out of reach in a tight space.

Monty- "Do you have to make a saving throw to resist a bag of Doritos?" Kelly- "I fail." 😂😂

1. Mending(never have to worry about paying repair fees and can also make a business out of it) 2. Guidance(I like the idea better results out of almost everything I do without putting in to much more effort then I already do) 3. Prestidigitation(for me hygiene is really the only practical use for me but I’d much rather go through the effort of cleaning and cooking then miss out on guidance and mending)

Definitely do a series of "Real life" D&D. Feats, each spell level, class features... In real life situations.

Prestidigitation, Mending, Spare the Dying. I'm practically prepared for nearly every situation that I come across every day, including my job. So much tedium just REMOVED from my life.

So, I'm late to the party but I want to point out a couple things. But first- more of these videos from time to time. They are a lot of fun! Anyways! Prestidigitation creating small marks, or symbols could be done on paper- we generally call that drawing- and while it only lasts for 1 hour, we have cameras and scanners. If you don't agree with that use, creating an illusory image that can fit in your hand, and take a picture of it works great for a quick sketch to base something off of. Minor illusion is superior here as while people wont be fooled into thinking a minor illusion is a real creature (because its a still object) it can have all the required appearance like texture and color. If you could 3D scan that with your phone- well 3D modelling finally got a lot easier as well as texturing. You could also create the illusion of an illustration you want made, snap a picture of it- man the new Monster compendium you are working on is really moving now... Mending is great but still takes a minute to cast for each use. Sure, it's still worth it BUT- it has one glaring issue. Someone hands you a cellphone in pieces, and yes- all the pieces are there... It's still 1 minute of casting PER BREAK OR TEAR. O_O Shattered to pieces? Sorry- that's going to be hours of work- as written. I think it should be more like - healing the damage delt to the object or restoring its condition, but as written, kinda sucks for a lot of our use cases. Finally - Spare the Dying... I don't know how many people realize what this means exactly. So, to stabilize someone in D&D prevents them from dying, so long as they take no further damage, which again can be stopped by a spare the dying cantrip applied again. The creature that is stabilized will, wake up, gaining 1HP, after 1-4 hours. So, you stabilize, you make sure they are protected from harm for 1-4 hours, and you save a life, almost regardless of what happened to them. This only doesn't work against things that would prevent natural healing, death from massive damage, or some kind of ongoing damaging effect. If we are combining real word and D&D rules- Spare the Dying seems to halt any death from most diseases, until that disease can cause damage again, only to be stopped by another casting of the spell. Meanwhile, doctors can work without fear of the patient dying, allowing them the precious resource of time in figuring out how to save the patient. Till they can get that variant human in the room with magic initiate with cure wounds/healing word. And or the person who can cast Detect Poison and Disease and basically in 6 seconds can tell you exactly what disease someone has and if they are poisoned, and if so by what.

Number 1 pick is mending. I am a technician. Sometimes, things break and need replacement. Having new parts flown in overnight is expensive and slows down our work. Number 2 pick is prestidigitation. It is called "minor wish" for a reason. Number 3 is control flames. Mostly for the show I could put on around the campfire.

Being able to warm up or cool down my clothes with Prestidigitation is clutch

Mending seems useful, but so many broken things are broken because they are missing something. I also don’t find that things break very often, and if you can only pick one cantrip it would be best to pick the most used one. Prestidigitation is the obvious first pick, but if I had a second choice it would be mage hand. I’m an artist, and having a third hand would be super helpful with everything. I think people are underestimating the handiness of having a third hand. My bard dnd character also uses mage hand in the bedroom lol.

I saw the title, and wondered how you could possibly make a case for not taking prestidigitation. Glad to see i am not the only one confused by this question. Fast cleaning, fire, taste, tiny super fast 3d printer... It is everything we want our homes to be able to do for us in the next 50 years. I could see a short person picking mage hand, because I do have some family members that hate going shopping due to the height of the shelves. But, grocery delivery solves that and you could save enough money to justify that with prestidigitation. Second choice I will grant is a much harder decision. Meding and guidance are very strong.

As a dad and someone who works in manufacturing, prestidigitation is number 1 then mending is a very close 2nd. Minor illusion would then be 3rd, being able to tell amazing bedtime stories and include visuals to my kids would be amazing.

Mage hand, mending, and prestidigitation are top of my list

I'm choosing Mold Earth, Druid Craft, and Mending. I love gardening, and the ability to instantly dig holes is essential to the planting season. So Mold Earth is awesome for me. I can till the soil and create a perfect grid of seed holes in 18 seconds. I can the be a human back hoe/ bull dozer. I can add swales to hillsides to catch water and end droughts through water infiltration. I'll go take Andrew Millison's course on permaculture earthen works principles to master the principles of terraforming. Then I'll take a few months to go camping throughout the Colorado River Basin and fix the water retention issues of the landscape, saving California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado from rampant droughts in a single year. Druid Craft allows plants to accelerate through their life cycles in a controlled fashion. Foremost in my mind is the ability to propagate plants instantly by forcing a cutting to grow roots and sprout leaves in 12 seconds. This is a process that takes months and fails half of the time. Now you can clone a plant 100 times in an hour. Sold at $10 each, that's $1000 of rare and exotic plants perfectly propagated and ready to sell. With enough genetic diversity, I could plant entire forests and end deforestation and global warming (through carbon sequestration into plants) at the same time. I could force a plant to put out flowers and produce food. Mending is just awesome.

1st Choice: Prestidigitation Everything described in the video applies, the cleaning function is so incredibly useful, on so many levels, it's impossible to pass up. Additionally, one can get very creative in many ways with the harmless sensory effect, and the "nonmagical trinket or illusory image that can fit in your hand" allows me to replicate what you described with using Minor Illusion to create models of creatures and such! 2nd Choice: Spare the Dying I graduated from high school recently, and I plan on becoming a firefighter, so having the ability to take a few seconds stabilize any living person with any level of wounds, to make sure they don't die? That's absolutely amazing! Spare the Dying would be a perfect cantrip for a first responder. 3rd Choice: Mending For money and for convenience, this is a deeply useful cantrip. I agree with the judgement that most broken electronics could be fixed using this spell, as in the VAST majority of cases all of the materials are present and the damage is smaller than 1 foot in any dimension. Fix phones, fix ripped clothes, fix holes in walls or floors, fix cars, fix damaged shoes, fix glasses, restore old scratched up disks and antique machines, fix windows (one square foot at a time)!

Prestidigitation would be my first pick as well. Mending and Guidance is fighting each other for second place. For magic initiates free 1st lvl spell, Find familiar would be a great spell. Imagine all the shenanigans you could do, not to mention the fact that you could get a overhead view of any situation as well as look at yourself without a mirror. It probably wouldn't die ever, as you could just keep it out of danger, and since it's a magical creature it probably lives a long time. Tenser's floating disk, or comprehend languages would be very nice as well. A healing spell would maybe be the best option though, as magical healing would be invaluable. Of the 1st lvl options, goodberry would probably be the best option, as 10 hp guaranteed with the additional effect that you can sustain 10 people with it. When a person has only a few hit points, it would be overpowered. (False life would be very nice as well, although it only lasts an hour, while goodberry lasts 24, and also it is purely selfish)

Minor Ilision would be amazing for Engineers, Architects, Filmmakers or some sort of Designer.

100% guidance. Reducing my chance of missing a diagnose by AT LEAST 25% is huge. Would easily become the best doctor in the area.

Oddly, this has been my favourite episode for a while haha. Love ya work dudes

Probably my favorite video of yours in awhile, it’s fun to just listen to you guys theorize about real life stuff with the dnd context. Would 110% want to listen to the variant human load out video

I live in an area with a lot of dirt and gravel roads, Mold Earth would be SOOOoooo useful. "Oh is that pothole back? Not anymore!"

Prestidigitation is the most realistic pick because cleaning is just a pain, even more so if you’re ND. 😂 like I don’t have to clean my dishes, do laundry, dust and vacume anymore. Plus you can make tiny items with it so if you need a random item you can just make it.

As a regular civilian, its going to be prestidigitation. Whenever surfaces get dirty or greasy just waving your hand and it getting clean is super nice.

So I loaded into this saying prestidigitation over and over, but then you talked about guidance. And I'm thinking to myself... be supernaturally good at everything. The more I think about guidance, the more sure I am that it's the best option. Remember in real life, we practice things to become better at them, and perfect practice makes perfect. So you don't just get this one time advantage. Doing it right this time contributes to you doing it right next time, when you can also use guidance to further improve your results beyond what you could achieve without it. There's never a skill wall you have to break through, because guidance just puts you on the other side of it. You never wonder "how do I improve" because you just use guidance and go, oh right! it will be better if I do that! It will apply to every single thing you might want to do. Cleaning? you're better at it. Fashion? you're better at it. Writing? you're better at it. Performing? you're better at it. Sex? you're better at it. Engineering? you're better at it. Even rarer and stranger skills. Whittling? you're better at it. Skipping rocks? better at it. Trick shots for youtube? better at it. The list goes on. Guidance. I choose guidance.

"What Feat Would You Take In Real Life?" would be awesome to see! i could see ritual caster, alert, observant, and even shadow touched coming in useful!

Im a service technician so mage hand would be my number one pick every time. There are so many times where you can use a third hand just to hold something in place, put a bolt in while you hold the part in position, mark something, be much faster with cabeling or have a way more easy way when soldering thin wires. Prestidigitation would be my second pick and Mending my third.

This was a fun topic. Thinking about which spells and feats would be most useful in real life sounds like it could be a fun series.

what a fun video!!! Looking forward to the 1st level spell one.

I didn't even start the video and immediately shouted "Prestidigitation!" And then I watched the entire video :-). I concur with your assessments and would also choose mending as my second. Some objects are just irreplaceable and would be wonderful to fix. Imagine going into a museum and fixing all the displays.

22:46 personally the reason why I argue that spare dying is more useful in a medical setting is because things go wrong quite often when it comes to blood loss and moisture loss that just can’t be fixed because once it goes so far, there’s no going back. For instance a burn unit. This would be soooo useful in a burn unit because once a burn goes so far there’s no going back at a can’t be fixed, but if you have a spare dying you can fix it.

Please give us more of this I think we are all begging for more of this irl stuff please keep it up.

Mage hand holds 10 pounds, not 5. Also, everyone has been working on something where they just need someone else to hold it, or a third hand to reach something, move something, etc. Super useful.

Prestidigitation is so obvious, I pick it with every spellcaster, you can be SO creative with so little. I once kept a blizzard out of our druid's face with continuous Prestidigitation so he could drive our sled down the mountain, likely saved the entire party just with a "fan" on command.

Mending for sure. It's not just about fixing the small things in everyday life. I can also use it to fix problems in the household. Prestidigitation is a close second for all the obvious reasons. Third would probably be Mage Hand for the sheer flexibility.

I actually would take Eldritch Blast 😅 but not as my number one. I'm a cop so using EB to disarm someone or use it to get through a barricaded door when necessary would be really useful. Maybe forcing car doors open when people get in an accident and are trapped inside. Things like that

It has to be either Prestidigitation or Guidance. You either always have perfectly tasting food or are just a little better at everything

Mage hand can do dangerous stuff! It can also do stuff that’s hard to reach, like getting at a bolt inside an engine, it also doesn’t get tired…. you could do things like unplug a clogged drain. How many times do you need an extra hand to hold something? Mage hand is S tier!

Guidance is obviously the best choice, as it essentially gives you a +5 to ability scores (because of the +2.5 average to ability rolls)

Loved this video, want to see the 2 cantrips and 1 first level spell!!! (Top pick is mending. Next are prestidigitation and minor illusion.)

Guidance is for sure the best cantrip for real life, it's not situacional, it has a significant impact in your chances to succeed and you can use it in other people.

Early on in 5th edition when I was running Tyranny of Dragons, one of my players was playing a Barbarian/Warlock multiclass who wasn't the brightest - he.. realized that he could make dirt taste good with Prestidigitation. Thus was born the term "Prestidigi-Bad-Idea".

I really enjoyed this one guys, thanks!

"That slightly incompetent co-worker..' is the best reason for vicious mockery. That being said, my personal top picks are, Thaumaturgy, Mending, and Prestidigitation.

Mending. I don't need much. I will want to use everything until its gone gone.

Mage hand for changing light bulbs 15 feet in the air and other things that require reaching up 15-25 feet above your head!

This nerdy deep dives is my jam and I am here for it!

Mage hand is my go-to lol! I’m constantly in situations where I just need a third hand to hold something, or move something. Cleaning dishes, or super flavoring food are very appealing…but just being able to multitask at 120% is just appealing!

Guidance. I'm needing it (also a +5% to +20% of success to everything would save so many headaches)

Honestly prestigitation and mending would make life so easy and BTW shadows of Drakenheim is such a banger of the series so far I've only seen two episodes so far but it's amazing and i learned something Kelly's character designs somehow ends up being my favorite part of this channel keep up the good work Kelly and Monty

Great video idea! Love the additional idea too! Mine would be Healing Word for the 1st level spell Prestidigitation and Mending for cantrips. Though if Mold Earth was permanent changes to the ground, I'd consider that one because of the financial benefits. Imagine doing precision land leveling work for construction sites and farms... all by magical means. No equipment expenses or contract labor to pay out.

The loadout idea sounds fun. And definitely appreciate fun content. Plus if any DnD game goes a bit more realism and downtime the cantrips in real life ideas become more useful

I’m a janitor so prestidigitation would be phenomenal BUT I’d have to use it sparingly because if I was too supernaturally fast and thorough somebody would wanna see what I’m doing

Paramedic here, adding to the spare the dying discussion: It definitely would save a ton of lives better than modern medicine without question. Most ICUs are loaded with patients forced into stability with lots of medications and a medically induced coma, a quick fix for that would be a literal miracle. But what are the limitations, would it save someone who needs CPR? their heart and lungs have already stopped, in some cases the heart is shaking around and can be restarted with electricity but would they be considered dead or dying? How many people would have access to this cantrip? If it becomes common (even like 1000 people in the US might be enough) it would collapse the entire corrupt healthcare system. We've built it around corrupt greedy businessmen and politicians profiting off the sick and dying, so that would all collapse. But I should also point out that most of our patients are not dying, even when we respond to 911 calls we don't often see real life or death emergencies, and if things have gotten that far (outside of massive multisystem traumas) it is usually due to a failure to find or treat a less severe problem. That being said, if prestidigitation can sterilize objects as part of its "cleaning" then it could save almost as many lives as spare the dying. Infection is a huge killer in hospitals, CLABSIs and CAUTIs (common hospital acquired infections that shouldn't exist if proper sterile technique or catheter replacement protocol was followed) would be essentially erased and sepsis would be a thing of the past. We wouldn't have to worry about antibiotic resistant superbugs or blood borne pathogens. I also can't stess enough how many times I wish I could use mending on various things in my ambulance. Many private ambulance companies don't invest enough in maintenance that lots of our trucks are running with check engine lights, jury rigged replacement parts, or just old equipment that should be replaced. Outside of maintenance, sometimes our equipment just fails. Wires, tablets/clipboards that you use for reports, oxygen regulators, BP cuffs, even my ventilator sometimes fails us in the field. A quick fix to all of these would make my job 10 times easier and probably save some lives (though less than spare the dying or prestidigitation). TLDR: all the top choices they mention would be AMAZING things to have in healthcare, especially emergency medicine but even in less emergent situations.

I actually calculated once that Arnold Schwarzenegger in his prime had a STR of 19, same as a werebear.

1 Wildshape first choice especially if i can mix and/or augment myself or my forms 2 Guidance 3 Encode thoughts 4 Mending 5 prestidigitation 6 mage hands 7 Find steed 8 Conjure animal

Number 1 is far and away Prestidigitation (though for the cleaning it specifies nonliving matter so no replacing showers or brushing your teeth), but if you're doing the magic initiate thing of 2 cantrips than the second would be Mending easily. Third would be one of the three; Mage Hand (for shenanigans, teasing, and laziness around the house) Minor Illusion (for as Monty said about being a creative where I can just show what I'm thinking of instead of having to describe it) Dancing Lights (for no more light bill) I also saw someone comment on a Dimension20 short about the same concept to this that Spare the Dying would basically be Coma the Spell. And for True Strike, if you're in a combat sport True Strike could get you that the first hit knockout if you cast it just as the match starts.

Had this conversation many times and I think all of us decided prestidigitation was the way to go for most of the same reasons you guys landed on.

1. Guidance: Infinite options. You could be the best at ANYTHING. You pick up a new hobby? You have an insta +2.5 on average. Considering the pros are at +3 at most, with little practice you become the best at anything. You want prestidigitation for cleaning dishes? Just guidance yourself and you halve the time it would take to do so. 2. Mage hand: You wanted to be the best at anything with guidance? Now you can be the best AND have 3 hands to do so! You want your dishes clean? The mage hand can do it for you! And it can also cook, brush your teeth, play the piano with 3 hands, paint, better sex ;), dont ever get up for anything etc. If you think you would have a problem controlling 3 hands at once remember you have guidance to help you out :) 3. Minor ilusion sounds funny not gonna lie I already have all I wanted lol. Prestidigitation sounds nice for changing the flavour of things too but all the cleaning things can be done by mage hand+guidance and the same goes for mending

prestidigitation is basically "least wish" the ability to instantly clean my stuff, and instantly make my opponents soil themselves is amazing.

I do a lot of agriculture landscaping and construction, and clean drinking water isn’t always available to me, so my two cantrips would have to be Mould Earth and Prestidigitation, and my first level spell would have to be create/destroy water. Creating seed beds, digging out dirt for foundations, digging up root vegetables, watering my plants, access to clean water 24/7, and I can clean all the dirt off me afterwards. It’s too good to even think about.

Very entertaining. One of my favorite videos. 1. Prestidigitation 2. Mending 3. Minor Illusion If Magic Initiate, Find Familiar

This was awesome, guys.

Would LOVE seeing your thoughts on the first level options, in particular then looking at it with two cantrips to compliment it.

Prestidigitation, clean wounds as well! Never worry about a cut or scrape getting infected!

I would also do prestidigitation, mending, and guidance. I write very complicated code for a living to make medicine and guidance would be amazing for that. Since it applies to that skill check I would use it before each coding session.

I loved this video! I'd love to see your loadout for being a V-human!

I actually made a character who made me ask this exact question last week. I was making a maid for an inn that my party got as a reward ages ago, and was thinking 'from a pure utility standpoint, what would she put effort into learning to make her job easier?' I love thought exercises like this hehe

As a nurse, Mage Hand would be so useful just to grab/hold that thing while my hands are full...but then prestidigitation would just clean up all my patients for me...that's a hard toss up. Spare the dying is ironic because if I had that, I would never send anyone to the ICU 😅 that would result in some strange staffing disturbances. I think I'd have to take guidance as my 3rd

Prestidigitation and start a cleaning business. Car detailing/car wash, house cleaning, dorm cleaning etc. Druidcraft and Mold Earth perfect for a landscaping business. Mending to start a repair business

Shovel of lesser mold earth 😬👍 Now that I finished the video and understand the assignment 1. Mending (because its always my job to fix the things someone else broke more failing to fix it) 2. Prestidigitation (because all the reasons you listed 👍) 3. Mage Hand (because I’ve been bed ridden more than once in my life and independents is empowerment.) Besides I already have a “Shovel of lessor Mold Earth” 😬👍 Also looking forward to the second part of this video

Before i watch: This is the best idea for a dnd video i came across in a long time

Yall say how some cantrips would only be useful for people who are in certain professions or do certain hobbies, but I'd argue that if you had a cantrip that made those easy, like digging with Mold Earth, you'd do those things a lot more than you do now.

There's nothing better than prestidigitation, but my second choice is control flames, with guidance right behind that

Guidance would be my pick choice since as mentioned on average you'd be like 25-100% better at doing something or well anything. So while it's annoying it's only for a single action, you could also try it over and over again it also works on others. Also there are probably a lot more skill checks in RL compared to DnD. Mending is also pretty broken depending on how it would work in real life, I mean if it could repair a break or tear of 1 foot in a vehicale, building or what not. Spare the dying depending on how it works with how it's worded could also be quite OP since how exactly does it work? Does it save someone bleeding to death? One of the most common way's people die during surgery is from bloodloss/bleeding. Could it be cast repeatedly on a dying person to prevent them from dying? Like what are the limits of stopping someone from dying? Virtue could also be a great spell in my book if the temporary HP works like in DnD could be used in the same way as spare the dying examples. Would probably be the number 1 pick for people in health care. Though depending on how many temp HP you get it could also be used similar to a bulletproof vest / armor, could also be used in a lot of cases where you need to be more "tanky" would be quite the cheat in for instance a boxing match. Not much use in everyday scenarios unless your in health care I guess but still.

My initial thought was mending but you guys made a great case for prestigiditation

Mending

I loved this video guys I mean dudes Please do more stuff like this and what you started talking about in the end with the first level spells

1. Prestidigitation 2. Minor illusion 3. Mending. Great video looking forward to seeing similar reviews of spells of all the levels

Damn Kelly! I feel personally attacked! Don't want to tell you which cantrip I thought of as I clicked your thumbnail!😂

No damage dealing cantrips? This is very Canadian of you! :D

You should do this for every level of spell, and then, using the class that can get all or most of them (probably wizards, since its not sorcerers of the coast is it), make the best real life spellcaster for dnd, id probably say be a divination wizard, but id love to see the argument for each subclass of the chosen class

Prestidigitation hands down! I can’t even tell you how many discussions we’ve had about this.

I actually just had this conversation a couple of weeks ago with my D&D group, before I knew this video existed. It's a fun thought experiment. I loved this video and would love to see this with 1st level spells. Rule: if you could have just one 1st level spell and could cast it only once, which would it be? There could be a discussion about whether you can cast spells ritually or not. My choice would probably be find familiar for all the obvious reasons, but there could be an argument for ceremony, goodberry, or really any of the spells that have the ritual tag. As far as my cantrips go: prestidigitation, mending, and probably blade ward. Blade ward may be less useful in many circumstances in D&D, but in real life it could go a long way to prevent myself from getting really hurt.

Most useful quality of life cantrip spells - prestidigitation - druidcraft - mending - message - mold earth - shape water - thaumaturgy - spare the dying - light - control flames - guidance - encode thoughts - dancing lights - hunter sense (Humblewood cantrip) - mage hand Least these are the ones I would consider. As for my tops choices, personally 1) Prestidigitation (of course) 2) Druidcraft (frankly being able to know the weather always and being able to grow things is too good to pass up, especially since I love herbalism irl) 3) Mage Hand (let’s be honest, this is amazing for short people and those who might have mobility issues, of which I am the short person in this case) With any additional it would be 4) mending 5) guidance 6) dancing lights 7) message 8) spare the dying 9) control flames 10) mold earth 11) shape water 12) light 13) encode thoughts (because that’s just neat to me) And that’s pretty much what I would be interested in.

Eldritch Blast, and just like in D&D, I'd commit nefarious acts

My DM asked the group this a few days ago, and now I realize he had just watched your video lol. I chose Mending because I like to be handy and fix things. But Prestidigitation would probably be more useful since I hate cleaning but I hate things being dirty too.

7:40 you know what else Prestidigitation does? Many minor magical effects. You can instantly light and snuff out campfires create smells, sounds and other small sensory tricks, you can mark a path you’ve been travelling to keep track as well.

4:44 counter point if you’re in the military both cantrips are really handy so now I can walk around with no weapon in a hot zone and now every time we have to fill sandbags I can do it with no effort