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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 6473025" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!&nbsp; Goodberry doesn't restore hit points in an of itself. It is not a &quot;cure&quot; spell. Find me one example of a magic item that creates &quot;Goodberry&quot; as a primary effect (hmmm...that gives me an idea for a druidic staff; the druid 'plants' the staff in the dirt, sticking straight up...by morning the staff has 'grown' some branches and leaves, and a certain number of Goodberries that can be picked <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ). Ahem, anyway, the spell does nothing more than creates berries that can restore hp and feed someone. It has a duration for how long the berries last...sort of (spells Duration is &quot;instantaneous&quot;, but description says &quot;effectiveness of berries lasts up to 24 hours&quot;). So for me, RAW the Goodberry spell shouldn't count as a &quot;healing spell&quot;...because it isn't...just as summoning a creature that can heal by touch shouldn't benefit from a DoL cleric's &quot;boosted healing abilities&quot;. &nbsp; As for RAI, obviously JC and I differ, and I'm sure others differ from us; who's is the &quot;better&quot; interpretation? Well, mine, of course...for my campaign. His, for his campaign. And yours for your campaign. I (and other DM's) shouldn't &quot;deffer&quot; to some other DM simply because of some sense of &quot;guru'ism&quot;, no questions asked. Other DM's interpretations are ALWAYS a good thing to hear about...but the ultimate authority for what is the &quot;correct&quot; interpretation for a rule in any campaign is the DM of that campaign. Period. I'm betting that JC would agree with my 100% on that.^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pming, post: 6473025, member: 45197"] Hiya! Goodberry doesn't restore hit points in an of itself. It is not a "cure" spell. Find me one example of a magic item that creates "Goodberry" as a primary effect (hmmm...that gives me an idea for a druidic staff; the druid 'plants' the staff in the dirt, sticking straight up...by morning the staff has 'grown' some branches and leaves, and a certain number of Goodberries that can be picked :) ). Ahem, anyway, the spell does nothing more than creates berries that can restore hp and feed someone. It has a duration for how long the berries last...sort of (spells Duration is "instantaneous", but description says "effectiveness of berries lasts up to 24 hours"). So for me, RAW the Goodberry spell shouldn't count as a "healing spell"...because it isn't...just as summoning a creature that can heal by touch shouldn't benefit from a DoL cleric's "boosted healing abilities". As for RAI, obviously JC and I differ, and I'm sure others differ from us; who's is the "better" interpretation? Well, mine, of course...for my campaign. His, for his campaign. And yours for your campaign. I (and other DM's) shouldn't "deffer" to some other DM simply because of some sense of "guru'ism", no questions asked. Other DM's interpretations are ALWAYS a good thing to hear about...but the ultimate authority for what is the "correct" interpretation for a rule in any campaign is the DM of that campaign. Period. I'm betting that JC would agree with my 100% on that. ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]

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