NineShadowEyes
February 9th, 2012, 02:26
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I was thinking about Prestidigitation and its use as a cleaning tool. This is pretty interesting if we do some simple math.
1. Duration of the spell is 1 hour.
2. At the end of the duration something that's been cleaned stays clean.
3. Prestidigitation can be cast every round, without limit.
4. Per casting, Prestidigitation can clean stuff in 1 cubic foot.
5. That means that Prestidigitation can clean an average sized person in 6 castings (6 cubic feet).
6. An hour is 100 rounds.
7. A single caster, then, working a sweat-shop 12 hour day could cast this spell
1200 times per day, cleaning roughly 200 typical humanoids and their clothes.
8. If aforementioned worker works 6 days a week, he's cleaning 1200 people and their clothes every week. In a month (4.5 weeks) he's cleaning 5400 people.
9. That's just one guy.
Think about a sweat shop with a dozen low paid Prestidigitation casters doing this all day. They could clean almost 65,000 people a month (granted, one right after the other).
Let's assume it costs a paltry 1 sp to get this done. That's a gross revenue of 6500 GP a month, or 78000 GP per year. That's some serious money.
And all this based on a 0-level spell.
I was thinking about Prestidigitation and its use as a cleaning tool. This is pretty interesting if we do some simple math.
1. Duration of the spell is 1 hour.
2. At the end of the duration something that's been cleaned stays clean.
3. Prestidigitation can be cast every round, without limit.
4. Per casting, Prestidigitation can clean stuff in 1 cubic foot.
5. That means that Prestidigitation can clean an average sized person in 6 castings (6 cubic feet).
6. An hour is 100 rounds.
7. A single caster, then, working a sweat-shop 12 hour day could cast this spell
1200 times per day, cleaning roughly 200 typical humanoids and their clothes.
8. If aforementioned worker works 6 days a week, he's cleaning 1200 people and their clothes every week. In a month (4.5 weeks) he's cleaning 5400 people.
9. That's just one guy.
Think about a sweat shop with a dozen low paid Prestidigitation casters doing this all day. They could clean almost 65,000 people a month (granted, one right after the other).
Let's assume it costs a paltry 1 sp to get this done. That's a gross revenue of 6500 GP a month, or 78000 GP per year. That's some serious money.
And all this based on a 0-level spell.