Produce Flame: Anybody Got a Light?
Usable By: Druid
Spell Level: 0 (cantrip)
School: Conjuration
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self
Duration: 10 minutes
Components: V, S
A flickering flame appears in your hand. The flame remains there for the duration and harms neither you nor your equipment. The flame sheds bright light in a 10-‐‑foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet. The spell ends if you dismiss it as an action or if you cast it again. You can also attack with the flame, although doing so ends the spell. When you cast this spell, or as an action on a later turn, you can hurl the flame at a creature within 30 feet of you. Make a ranged spell attack. On a hit, the target takes 1d8 fire damage.
This spell’s damage increases by 1d8 when you reach 5th level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d8).
Review by Sam West, Twitter: @CrierKobold
Are you in the market for a torch you can throw, and happen to be playing a druid? Well then, do I have the spell for you!
Produce Flame isn’t particularly complicated: it's an average rate d8 damaging spell for druids that gives you a 30 ft. ranged d8 fire damage spell attack attached to your run of the mill Light spell. You can’t quite do all the fancy color shenanigans Light offers, nor mess around with a fey aesthetic in a way Dancing Lights provides, but you’re making that trade for it being a perfectly usable damage cantrip early. And that’s fine.
Some notable elements of the spell is it doesn’t require your concentration, meaning you aren’t going to be interrupting concentration effects to throw these out in the low to mid tier. Maintaining concentration on your Summon Beast while simultaneously slinging out 2d8 spell attacks will feel really solid in around levels 5 and 6, all while holding on to your higher level spell slots for bigger impact spells when you need them.
Most groups probably don’t need a cantrip that provides light. Torches are usually more than enough, and some groups will find even torches are fairly unnecessary. Against its competition, Produce Flame isn’t standing out to me as a must have druid cantrip for the majority of fantasies, but if you’re planning on going for Circle of Wildfire or simply like the aesthetic of throwing small Fireballs at people, Produce Flame will do the job just fine.
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