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<blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 7952177" data-attributes="member: 53980"><p>A good observation, but I think it also needs to take into account that bards are "spells known" casters, whereas clerics are "prepared" casters. A cleric can swap out all of their spells after a long rest, whereas a bard can only change one spell and only after leveling up.</p><p></p><p>A 9th level bard gains ONE 5th level spell. If they choose Raise Dead, that means that they cannot use Animate Objects, Legend Lore, Seeming, or any number of useful spells. A 10th level bard gains two more choices, but since these are magical secrets and can be chosen from any spell list, I think it's fair to assume that there is likely to be a high degree of variation here.</p><p></p><p>In other words, whereas every cleric of 9th level or higher is a potential source for raise dead, only a fraction (and likely a small fraction at that) of bards will be able to do so. Assuming that there is a fairly even distribution of the 5th level PHB spells among bards, there would only be 1 bard capable of casting raise for every 16 clerics who are able to raise the dead. That's at 9th level. If we assume that a bard is unlikely to waste a magical secret or higher level spell known on raise dead, that fraction doesn't get much better when factoring in bards of levels 10+.</p><p></p><p>As such, unless you make the world building assumption that a disproportionate number of high level bards choose raise dead, bards will have a fairly minimal impact on the raise dead economy as a whole.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fanaelialae, post: 7952177, member: 53980"] A good observation, but I think it also needs to take into account that bards are "spells known" casters, whereas clerics are "prepared" casters. A cleric can swap out all of their spells after a long rest, whereas a bard can only change one spell and only after leveling up. A 9th level bard gains ONE 5th level spell. If they choose Raise Dead, that means that they cannot use Animate Objects, Legend Lore, Seeming, or any number of useful spells. A 10th level bard gains two more choices, but since these are magical secrets and can be chosen from any spell list, I think it's fair to assume that there is likely to be a high degree of variation here. In other words, whereas every cleric of 9th level or higher is a potential source for raise dead, only a fraction (and likely a small fraction at that) of bards will be able to do so. Assuming that there is a fairly even distribution of the 5th level PHB spells among bards, there would only be 1 bard capable of casting raise for every 16 clerics who are able to raise the dead. That's at 9th level. If we assume that a bard is unlikely to waste a magical secret or higher level spell known on raise dead, that fraction doesn't get much better when factoring in bards of levels 10+. As such, unless you make the world building assumption that a disproportionate number of high level bards choose raise dead, bards will have a fairly minimal impact on the raise dead economy as a whole. [/QUOTE]
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