Cleric/wizard spontaneously dropping arcane spells for cures?

[blargney the second]

We have a cleric/necromancer PC, and we're trying to make a rules decision about spontaneous casting. Can she drop a wizard spell to cast a cure spell?

At first blush, we thought it was a fairly obvious "no", but then we looked at the PHB. This is what it said:

Spontaneous Casting: A good cleric (or a neutral cleric of a good deity) can channel stored spell energy into healing spells that the cleric did not prepare ahead of time. The cleric can “lose” any prepared spell that is not a domain spell in order to cast any cure spell of the same spell level or lower (a cure spell is any spell with “cure” in its name).

What do you think? Yea or nay?

Thanks!
-blarg

 

[Jdvn1]

I'd still say no. I think it's pretty obvious they're referring to Cleric spells.

 

[Crothian]

No, only cleric spells can be changed for cure spells.

 

[IronWolf]

Ditto what Crothian said.....

 

[Old Fezziwig]

No. I can see where you could argue a loophole from that snippet of the text, but I think its context makes things clear.

Nick

 

[blargney the second]

Hehe, it would've been so much fun when she hit Mystic Theurge...

 

[Jdvn1]

Hehe, it would've been so much fun when she hit Mystic Theurge...

And yet so broken.

Have fun gaming!

 

[Starglim]

No, cleric class abilities apply only to cleric spells.

 

[Torm]

By strict construction, from the quote you gave from the rules, YES, she should be able to. But, remember that Rule 0 is in the rulebook - if the DM thinks it will imbalance the game to make it less fun or challenging, that trumps the reading of any rule.

I personally don't see it as that imbalanced - a level of Wizard that she took COULD have been a level of Cleric if she had wanted, so the difference is negligible. If anything, Wizard spells usually pack more combat punch, IMO, so it is actually not to her advantage to do this unless she has to.

Maybe you'd only want to let her do this with Arcane spells up to the same level as the Cleric spells she has - i.e. If she only has 3rd level Cleric spells, she can only convert up to 3rd level Arcane spells, the idea being that if she doesn't have access to 4th level healing yet, she doesn't have it under ANY circumstances yet....

 

[Greylock]

Vote no.

HTH