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Create Food and Water

Create Food and Water

You create 45 pounds of food and 30 gallons of fresh water on the ground or in containers within range-both useful in fending off the hazards of malnutrition and dehydration. The food is bland but nourishing and looks like a food of your choice, and the water is clean. The food spoils after 24 hours if uneaten.

Tactical Usage​

Survival Support Magic: Create Food and Water provides essential sustenance creation for wilderness survival and resource management. This 3rd-level conjuration spell excels at preventing starvation and dehydration during extended adventures.

Optimal Timing: Most effective during long wilderness journeys, siege situations, or when natural food and water sources are unavailable or contaminated.

Resource Management: Uses a 3rd-level spell slot - available from character level 5+. Creates enough sustenance for 15 Medium creatures for one day.

Target Selection: Position food and water creation for maximum utility - secure containers for water, protected areas for food storage.

Spell Combinations​

Synergistic Spells:

  • Preservation Magic: Gentle repose or similar effects to extend food preservation beyond 24 hours
  • Purification Spells: Purify food and drink for additional safety assurance
  • Storage Magic: Create containers or secure storage for generated sustenance

Class Feature Interactions:

  • Divine Magic: Thematic connection to divine providence and blessing of sustenance
  • Channel Divinity: Some domains provide enhanced sustenance or blessing effects
  • Ritual Casting: If available, preserves spell slots for emergency food creation

Multi-Caster Coordination: Multiple casters can create sustenance for large groups or extended periods.

Material Component Details​

Component Acquisition: No material components required - only verbal and somatic components needed.

Component Handling: Simple V, S casting allows quick deployment during survival situations.

Roleplay Opportunities: Different food choices reflect cultural backgrounds, divine connections, or personal preferences.

Economic Considerations: No costs make this spell economically valuable for reducing expedition supply requirements.

Creator Notes​

Encounter Balancing: Reduces resource management pressure during exploration phases. Consider how easy sustenance affects survival challenge design.

NPC Usage: Religious communities might rely on clerics or paladins for food security during disasters or famines.

Environmental Considerations: Particularly valuable in harsh environments where natural food sources are scarce or dangerous.

Campaign Integration: Essential for wilderness adventures, siege scenarios, or campaigns involving resource scarcity.

Environmental Interactions​

Terrain Effects: 30-foot range allows flexible placement. Works in any environment where space is available.

Weather Influence: Created food and water aren't affected by weather, providing reliable sustenance regardless of conditions.

Structural Interactions: Can create food and water inside containers, buildings, or protected areas for security.

Elemental Interactions: Pure water and nutritious food resist most environmental contamination effects.

Common Rulings & Clarifications​

Timing Questions: Instantaneous creation with 24-hour food preservation timer. Water remains fresh indefinitely.

Target Limitations: Must have suitable space within 30-foot range. Can use existing containers or create on ground.

Duration Interactions: Food spoils after 24 hours if uneaten. Water remains clean and fresh until consumed or contaminated.

Mechanical Interactions: Creates exactly 45 pounds of food and 30 gallons of water. Food appearance is caster's choice.

Alternative Applications​

Non-Combat Uses: Emergency disaster relief, community support during famines, or charitable food provision.

Social Encounters: Demonstrate divine favor, provide hospitality, or support communities in need.

Exploration Applications: Extend exploration range by reducing supply requirements, emergency sustenance during unexpected delays.

Utility Functions: Food security backup, trade good creation in desperate circumstances, or ceremonial feast preparation.

Same School: Other conjuration spells like goodberry (1st level magical food), create or destroy water (1st level water manipulation), heroes' feast (6th level magical banquet).

Similar Effects: goodberry (1st level healing food), purify food and drink (1st level purification), heroes' feast (6th level enhanced feast).

Progression Options: goodberry (1st level survival food), create food and water (3rd level substantial sustenance), heroes' feast (6th level magical banquet).

Complementary Magic: purify food and drink (safety enhancement), gentle repose (preservation), detect poison and disease (safety verification).

Scaling Analysis​

Level Progression: Remains valuable throughout campaigns for wilderness survival and resource management needs.

Upcast Benefits: No improvement from higher spell slots, making this a pure 3rd-level utility investment.

Campaign Phases: Peak utility in low-to-mid level play (5-10) where resource management challenges are most significant.

Comparative Value: Excellent utility spell that provides essential survival support justifying the 3rd-level slot cost.

Narrative Flavor​

Casting Description: Divine energy flows through your hands as sustenance materializes from sacred magic, providing life-giving nourishment.

Effect Manifestation: Simple but wholesome food appears alongside clear, refreshing water, carrying subtle hints of divine blessing.

Personal Style: Clerics might manifest bread and wine reflecting religious traditions, while paladins create practical rations suited for adventuring.

World Integration: Represents divine provision magic available to faithful servants, often associated with charity, hospitality, or divine intervention during hardship.

Tactical Usage​

Survival Support Magic: Create Food and Water provides essential sustenance creation for wilderness survival and resource management. This 3rd-level conjuration spell excels at preventing starvation and dehydration during extended adventures.

Optimal Timing: Most effective during long wilderness journeys, siege situations, or when natural food and water sources are unavailable or contaminated.

Resource Management: Uses a 3rd-level spell slot - available from character level 5+. Creates enough sustenance for 15 Medium creatures for one day.

Target Selection: Position food and water creation for maximum utility - secure containers for water, protected areas for food storage.

Spell Combinations​

Synergistic Spells:

  • Preservation Magic: Gentle repose or similar effects to extend food preservation beyond 24 hours
  • Purification Spells: Purify food and drink for additional safety assurance
  • Storage Magic: Create containers or secure storage for generated sustenance

Class Feature Interactions:

  • Divine Magic: Thematic connection to divine providence and blessing of sustenance
  • Channel Divinity: Some domains provide enhanced sustenance or blessing effects
  • Ritual Casting: If available, preserves spell slots for emergency food creation

Multi-Caster Coordination: Multiple casters can create sustenance for large groups or extended periods.

Material Component Details​

Component Acquisition: No material components required - only verbal and somatic components needed.

Component Handling: Simple V, S casting allows quick deployment during survival situations.

Roleplay Opportunities: Different food choices reflect cultural backgrounds, divine connections, or personal preferences.

Economic Considerations: No costs make this spell economically valuable for reducing expedition supply requirements.

Creator Notes​

Encounter Balancing: Reduces resource management pressure during exploration phases. Consider how easy sustenance affects survival challenge design.

NPC Usage: Religious communities might rely on clerics or paladins for food security during disasters or famines.

Environmental Considerations: Particularly valuable in harsh environments where natural food sources are scarce or dangerous.

Campaign Integration: Essential for wilderness adventures, siege scenarios, or campaigns involving resource scarcity.

Environmental Interactions​

Terrain Effects: 30-foot range allows flexible placement. Works in any environment where space is available.

Weather Influence: Created food and water aren't affected by weather, providing reliable sustenance regardless of conditions.

Structural Interactions: Can create food and water inside containers, buildings, or protected areas for security.

Elemental Interactions: Pure water and nutritious food resist most environmental contamination effects.

Common Rulings & Clarifications​

Timing Questions: Instantaneous creation with 24-hour food preservation timer. Water remains fresh indefinitely.

Target Limitations: Must have suitable space within 30-foot range. Can use existing containers or create on ground.

Duration Interactions: Food spoils after 24 hours if uneaten. Water remains clean and fresh until consumed or contaminated.

Mechanical Interactions: Creates exactly 45 pounds of food and 30 gallons of water. Food appearance is caster's choice.

Alternative Applications​

Non-Combat Uses: Emergency disaster relief, community support during famines, or charitable food provision.

Social Encounters: Demonstrate divine favor, provide hospitality, or support communities in need.

Exploration Applications: Extend exploration range by reducing supply requirements, emergency sustenance during unexpected delays.

Utility Functions: Food security backup, trade good creation in desperate circumstances, or ceremonial feast preparation.

Same School: Other conjuration spells like goodberry (1st level magical food), create or destroy water (1st level water manipulation), heroes' feast (6th level magical banquet).

Similar Effects: goodberry (1st level healing food), purify food and drink (1st level purification), heroes' feast (6th level enhanced feast).

Progression Options: goodberry (1st level survival food), create food and water (3rd level substantial sustenance), heroes' feast (6th level magical banquet).

Complementary Magic: purify food and drink (safety enhancement), gentle repose (preservation), detect poison and disease (safety verification).

Scaling Analysis​

Level Progression: Remains valuable throughout campaigns for wilderness survival and resource management needs.

Upcast Benefits: No improvement from higher spell slots, making this a pure 3rd-level utility investment.

Campaign Phases: Peak utility in low-to-mid level play (5-10) where resource management challenges are most significant.

Comparative Value: Excellent utility spell that provides essential survival support justifying the 3rd-level slot cost.

Narrative Flavor​

Casting Description: Divine energy flows through your hands as sustenance materializes from sacred magic, providing life-giving nourishment.

Effect Manifestation: Simple but wholesome food appears alongside clear, refreshing water, carrying subtle hints of divine blessing.

Personal Style: Clerics might manifest bread and wine reflecting religious traditions, while paladins create practical rations suited for adventuring.

World Integration: Represents divine provision magic available to faithful servants, often associated with charity, hospitality, or divine intervention during hardship.