Create or Destroy Water

Create or Destroy Water is a level 1 transmutation spell. This spell allows spellcasters to conjure or destroy an area of water (or water-like surfaces).

Description

Choose to call forth rain or destroy a water-based surface.

Properties

Cost

Action + Level 1 Spell Slot

Details

 Range: 9 m / 30 ft

AoE: 4 m / 13 ft (Radius)

At higher levels

Upcast: When the spell is cast a 2nd Level or higher, the area that you can create or destroy water increases by 2m / 5ft for each Spell Slot Level above 1st.

Variants

•  Create Water
•  Destroy Water

Condition: Wet

 Wet

Duration: 3 turns

• Immune to  Burning and  Wild Magic: Burning.
• Resistant to Fire damage.
• Vulnerable to Lightning and Cold damage.

How to learn

Classes:

• Class Level 1: Cleric, and Druid

• Class Level 2: Conjuration (Minor Conjuration)

• Class Level 6: Storm Sorcery (Storm Spell)

Feats:

•  Magic Initiate: Cleric
•  Magic Initiate: Druid

Granted by the following items:

• Rain Dancer ( Recharge: Short rest)
• Wavemother's Robe ( Recharge: Long rest)

Notes

• Create water applies the  Wet condition: Vulnerability to Cold and Lightning damage (double damage).
• Lightning Spells cast on water causes the  Shocked condition: Removing their reaction and having a chance to stun.
• Electrified Water + a Fire Spell causes  Electrified Steam, which resets the Shocked and Wet conditions.
• A Cold spell freezes the water/mist and creates an  Ice surface, causing Difficult Terrain (half Movement Speed) and may cause creatures in the area to fall  Prone unless succeeding a DEX Save. (e.g. Create Water + Glyph of Warding).
• Conjuration School Wizards only receive the Create Water variant of the spell, which can only be cast once per Short Rest and doesn't consume a spell slot.
• Rain Dancer only grants the Create Water variant of the spell.
• You can only have one version of Create or Destroy Water at a time, even if you gain it from multiple sources.
• The incantations for Create Water are Pluo ("Rain") and Aqua pura ("Pure water"). The incantations for Destroy Water are Aresce ("Become dry") and Ares decimos ("Ten times drier").
• A hidden character that is out-of-combat can cast the Create Water version of this spell on in-combat characters without using an action. While casting the spell will unhide you and likely force you into combat, the character who Created this water will still have an action to use in the first turn of combat, as though they hadn't cast a spell. This is true even in Honour Mode

External Links

• Create or destroy water on the Forgotten Realms Wiki