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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kurotowa" data-source="post: 7864077" data-attributes="member: 27957">Well, how prevalent is Goodberry? To cast it you need to be a Druid, a halfling caster with the Mark of Hospitality, or presumably a Magewright. Let's look at those in reverse order.The recommended standard for a Magewright casting a 1st level spell is a ritual casting time and 50g worth of components. Goodberry makes 10 berries so that means each berry costs 5g in mats, with a mark up for labor if you're selling them on the open market. By the PHB, a Wealthy lifestyle with luxurious meals included is 4g a day. In other words, those Goodberry meals aren't a cheap food substitute, they're a massively expensive luxury beyond the means of all but the richest. So industrial production is right out.Now let's look at people with PC class levels. First, let's note that such people are fairly rare to begin with, mostly aren't that high level, and they generally have important things to do. But let's say you've got a Land Druid or Ghallanda Wizard who really wants to put a dent into the hunger problem. They're 5th level and are willing to dump all their daily spells on Goodberry. With spell recovery they can cast it 12 times, which feeds 120 people for the day. That's not nothing, but it's less than even the smallest village (defined as 500-2500 inhabitants). And for that you're tying up the entire daily spell output of someone fairly important. A 5th level Druid trying to end a famine is surely better off traveling around casting Plant Growth to bless the fields.So unless you introduce an Eldritch Machine that can cast Goodberry infinitely and without cost, I don't see it making a serious dent in the food supply. It's just not an efficient way to feed a large population.</blockquote>

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