So, at level 2, if I go for the Circle of the Shepherd, I can use the Unicorn Spirit as a bonus action which will add my Druids level to any healing spell, like Healing Word for example. Does this also apply to Goodberry as long as my party members eat them in the radius and while it lasts? Does the healing have to be direct? The description was a little vague;
In addition, if you cast a spell using a spell slot that restores hit points to any creature inside or outside the aura, each creature of your choice in the aura also regains hit points equal to your Druid level.
It might sound like a silly question, but 30 HP for one spell at level 2 is pretty crazy.
I really think that it isn't intended to work with goodberry. Goodberry doesn't directly restore hitpoints, it creates items that can be used to restore hitpoints. With that being said, there is SAC advice that says that eating a goodberry counts as using a spell to restore hitpoints (and thus counts for the disciple of life cleric feature).
The distinction here is that you have to cast a spell in order to trigger the unicorn spirit totem healing. Casting goodberry doesn't do any healing, and eating a berry isn't casting the spell. I still think it is a no-go.
And again, even if you allow it, you have to allow it only for the casting, not for the subsequent eating of berries.
That seems like a fair ruling. What heal spell would go with it well, though? Healing Word is tough because both using the spirit and casting the spell count as bonus actions…
I think there aren’t a ton of great options for use with it anyway. Certainly healing word could be used on subsequent turns, and the same with casting healing spirit, but other than that, you’re really looking at cure wounds. Of course there are higher level spells, but those are expensive. But since the healing only triggers on casting a spell, you’ll be burning through slots if you really want to make effective use of that feature.
You might just be better off taking the THP from the bear spirit, or maybe using a subclass that is really more centered on healing.
I can use the Unicorn Spirit as a bonus action, which will add my Druids level to any healing spell
While goodberry does interact with Unicorn Spirit, this is not how the feature works. The Unicorn healing is not added to the healing of the spell - it is a separate healing effect that occurs immediately when you cast the spell. So casting Goodberry would immediately heal those in your Aura for an amount equal to your Druid level. Then, each berry heals for 1 HP when eaten.
Constrast Life Cleric's Disciple of Life, which triggers anytime you heal someone with your spell, instead of when you cast the spell.
Honestly, I think this is DM fiat. Goodberry is a spell that restores hitpoints, but a super literal interpretation of Unicorn spirit & Goodberry’s wording makes it ambiguous since Goodberry’s healing isn’t direct or instantaneous. I personally think that Goodberry + Unicorn is legit since the former is still a spell that you cast, even if the hp restoration isn’t instantaneous.
As for which healing spells work with the totem — the ones that have multiple uses on only 1 casting feel the worst, like Aura of Vitality, Healing Spirit, etc. Healing Word works fine. You don’t need to use a bonus action to proc the healing from the Unicorn Totem, you just need the bonus action to *move* the totem, so if you’re in a situation where you don’t have to constantly move it around, you should be fine. Cure Wounds is ok too, especially if you’re casting it through your familiar with the extended range (assuming you’re playing with Tasha’s rules).
If you really want to make the Unicorn heals feel stronger I recommend a 1 level dip in Life Cleric and / or to consider asking your DM to drop a Moon Sickle as loot or something lol.
Goodberry isn't eligible for this feature, and I don't think it's intended to be for good reason; it doesn't heal on the turn you cast it, indeed it doesn't even heal on your turn if you give them away.
The unicorn spirit is intended for triggering alongside cure wounds, healing word etc., i.e- mostly instantaneous up-front healing effects, not anything you can hold onto or that persist over time (though regenerate would count, but again only on the turn that it's cast).
Honestly, I think this is DM fiat. Goodberry is a spell that restores hitpoints, but a super literal interpretation of Unicorn spirit & Goodberry’s wording makes it ambiguous since Goodberry’s healing isn’t direct or instantaneous. I personally think that Goodberry + Unicorn is legit since the former is still a spell that you cast, even if the hp restoration isn’t instantaneous.
Is conjure woodland beings a spell that restores hitpoints? Does damage? Mitigates damage? How about wish? How many steps removed from the healing can the casting be?
But again, if you do allow its use, you only get the unicorn totem healing 1 time, as I said in post #2
Overall, I'd say that the unicorn spirit is a bit awkward, and you probably shouldn't count on getting too many rounds of that healing, which means the bear totem will probably provide more effective healing with fewer resources and is probably the much better option for support. The advantage on strength saves and checks could be quite useful depending on your other characters (grapplers) and the monsters you are fighting anyway.
Disciple of Life says (SAC says this does work with goodberry)
"Whenever you use a spell of 1st level or higher to restore hit points to a creature, the creature regains additional hit points equal to 2 + the spell’s level."
Unicorn Spirit Sayys
"if you cast a spell using a spell slot that restores hit points to any creature inside or outside the aura, each creature of your choice in the aura also regains hit points equal to your druid level."
I can't see the difference between "using a spell of 1st level or higher to restore hit points" and "using a spell slot that restores hit points to any creature" so RAW I think this has to be interpreted as whenever anyone eats a goodberry anyone you choose in the aura gets the healing. It is insane, I wouldn't allow it, though if it wasn't for SAC I would say that godberry creates berries not restores hit points (when it is being cast and the duration is instantanious) therefore it shouldn't work with disciple of life.
I can't see the difference between "using a spell of 1st level or higher to restore hit points" and "using a spell slot that restores hit points to any creature" so RAW I think this has to be interpreted as whenever anyone eats a goodberry anyone you choose in the aura gets the healing.
The issue is whether eating a goodberry counts as "using" a spell.
The goodberry spell ends the moment it has created the goodberries, we know this because the spell's duration is instantaneous; this mean there is no spell to "use" beyond that point. What you have are some berries with their own properties (healing and food).
This is very different to say, aura of vitality which has an explicit duration, requires concentration, and must be actively used as a bonus action each turn in order to heal. It is very unambiguously a spell you use to heal.
Goodberry is a spell you use to create goodberries; once you've done that the spell is finished, what you have beyond that is a handful of berries you can give to creatures to eat. They are not spells, they are not the continuation of a spell, and the spell itself does not heal, so it's completely ineligible for unicorn spirit's effect.
I can't see the difference between "using a spell of 1st level or higher to restore hit points" and "using a spell slot that restores hit points to any creature" so RAW I think this has to be interpreted as whenever anyone eats a goodberry anyone you choose in the aura gets the healing.
The issue is whether eating a goodberry counts as "using" a spell.
The goodberry spell ends the moment it has created the goodberries, we know this because the spell's duration is instantaneous; this mean there is no spell to "use" beyond that point. What you have are some berries with their own properties (healing and food).
This is very different to say, aura of vitality which has an explicit duration, requires concentration, and must be actively used as a bonus action each turn in order to heal. It is very unambiguously a spell you use to heal.
Goodberry is a spell you use to create goodberries; once you've done that the spell is finished, what you have beyond that is a handful of berries you can give to creatures to eat. They are not spells, they are not the continuation of a spell, and the spell itself does not heal, so it's completely ineligible for unicorn spirit's effect.
I would agree with you entirely but everything you say also applies to disciple of life, and it has been confirmed that disciple of life does work with goodberry.
I can't see the difference between "using a spell of 1st level or higher to restore hit points" and "using a spell slot that restores hit points to any creature" so RAW I think this has to be interpreted as whenever anyone eats a goodberry anyone you choose in the aura gets the healing.
The issue is whether eating a goodberry counts as "using" a spell.
The goodberry spell ends the moment it has created the goodberries, we know this because the spell's duration is instantaneous; this mean there is no spell to "use" beyond that point. What you have are some berries with their own properties (healing and food).
This is very different to say, aura of vitality which has an explicit duration, requires concentration, and must be actively used as a bonus action each turn in order to heal. It is very unambiguously a spell you use to heal.
Goodberry is a spell you use to create goodberries; once you've done that the spell is finished, what you have beyond that is a handful of berries you can give to creatures to eat. They are not spells, they are not the continuation of a spell, and the spell itself does not heal, so it's completely ineligible for unicorn spirit's effect.
I would agree with you entirely but everything you say also applies to disciple of life, and it has been confirmed that disciple of life does work with goodberry.
Except that one feature provides healing when the user casts a spell, and the other provides healing when the user uses a spell. Casting a spell and using it are different. Eating a good berry is not casting a spell.
Honestly, I think this is DM fiat. Goodberry is a spell that restores hitpoints, but a super literal interpretation of Unicorn spirit & Goodberry’s wording makes it ambiguous since Goodberry’s healing isn’t direct or instantaneous. I personally think that Goodberry + Unicorn is legit since the former is still a spell that you cast, even if the hp restoration isn’t instantaneous.
Is conjure woodland beings a spell that restores hitpoints? Does damage? Mitigates damage? How about wish? How many steps removed from the healing can the casting be?
Why would Conjure Woodland Beings work? Even if you summon a fey that can heal your team, unicorn totem only works when YOU cast the spell. So personally, I wouldn’t allow Unicorn to proc off of your summons casting healing spells, though I would obviously allow it for casting healing spells through a familiar. Goodberry is different because YOU are casting it. Its just that the healing doesn’t happen until the berry is consumed.
As for Wish, if you cast Wish to restore HP then I would allow Unicorn to proc. I think that’s way less controversial than a Goodberry + Unicorn ruling.
I would agree with you entirely but everything you say also applies to disciple of life, and it has been confirmed that disciple of life does work with goodberry.
The problem with Disciple of Life is that the Sage Advice about it only makes things even more confusing, as they really should have errata'd the rule itself; the RAW makes it fairly clear that Disciple of Life wouldn't work with goodberry (as again, the spell has ended by the time someone actually eats a berry), but the Sage Advice contradicts this and doesn't explain why, so we've even less clarity about what the intended effect of the rules is actually supposed to be. It also doesn't address the fact that the caster may not be the one eating the berry; basically the Sage Advice directly contradicts the rules it was supposed to be clarifying, without explaining why or changing how we're supposed to read them.
We can think of goodberry as essentially being a spell to conjure many weak potions of healing. If you had bought the potion from an alchemist and drank it, would you consider yourself to be "using" the alchemist? I doubt it, as they're no longer involved, so the same logic should apply to the spell, whose involvement likewise ended once you obtained the "potions". This is an example of a really bad Sage Advice answer (and there are more than a few of them), as it doesn't give us enough information to know what the rule is actually supposed to say, which is why either the Sage Advice, or the rule itself, should have been errata'd as either the designers gave an incorrect answer or the rule they were answering about bears zero resemblance to what the designers intended and needs to be rewritten.
For example, if the rule is supposed to work as implied by the Sage Advice, then it should state something like "Whenever a creature regains hit-points as a result of a spell you cast of 1st-level or higher, the amount of hit-points regained is increased by 2 + the spell's level", as this would be so much more clearly what the Sage Advice suggests it should say (yet still doesn't six years later). Instead with got a rule that says one thing, and a Sage Advice answer that says something else, which makes it more likely that whoever answered the Sage Advice misunderstood why the question was being asked.
Even so, the unicorn spirit specifically requires casting a spell, so it's less ambiguous; you are not casting a spell when someone eats a goodberry, and it isn't restoring hit-points when you cast it, so it satisfies neither condition.
Honestly, I think this is DM fiat. Goodberry is a spell that restores hitpoints, but a super literal interpretation of Unicorn spirit & Goodberry’s wording makes it ambiguous since Goodberry’s healing isn’t direct or instantaneous. I personally think that Goodberry + Unicorn is legit since the former is still a spell that you cast, even if the hp restoration isn’t instantaneous.
Is conjure woodland beings a spell that restores hitpoints? Does damage? Mitigates damage? How about wish? How many steps removed from the healing can the casting be?
Why would Conjure Woodland Beings work? Even if you summon a fey that can heal your team, unicorn totem only works when YOU cast the spell. So personally, I wouldn’t allow Unicorn to proc off of your summons casting healing spells, though I would obviously allow it for casting healing spells through a familiar. Goodberry is different because YOU are casting it. Its just that the healing doesn’t happen until the berry is consumed.
As for Wish, if you cast Wish to restore HP then I would allow Unicorn to proc. I think that’s way less controversial than a Goodberry + Unicorn ruling.
I mean, you're saying that casting a spell that creates an item that heals you should be treated differently than casting a spell that creates a creature that heals you. If that's the way you view it, I guess you are free to an opinion, but it certainly isn't consistent.
And again, to reiterate, the relevant part of the unicorn spirit says "if you cast a spell using a spell slot that restores hit points to any creature inside or outside the aura..."
If you just cast goodberry, it has not restored hit points to any creature inside or outside the aura. If an ally just eats a goodberry that they already had from you, you have not cast a spell (sufficiently to meet the conditions of the rule), even though your spell restored hitpoints to an ally in the area.
In order to trigger the spirit, both conditions need to be met: you need to cast the spell, and that spell needs to restore hitpoints to a creature. The obvious implication is that they need to be simultaneous. But apparently obviousness isn't a sufficient test in this thread.
But even if you allow for them to be subsequent, then the two events must occur such that you have cast the spell and it restored hitpoints to a creature inside or outside the aura. That means it takes 2 actions for every instance of this healing. And since this triggers "if you cast a spell..." then that indicates that it should happen once per cast, not per healing of the spell.
I mean, you're saying that casting a spell that creates an item that heals you should be treated differently than casting a spell that creates a creature that heals you. If that's the way you view it, I guess you are free to an opinion, but it certainly isn't consistent.
Unicorn Totem specifies that it has to be YOU that casts the spell. If you summon an Alseid for example, the Alseid has to use their own action to cast Cure Wounds. Unicorn Totem specifies that YOU need to be the one to cast the spell. So no, that doesn't work. Otherwise it would specify that Unicorn Totem procs any time a healing spell is cast inside or outside the aura, and its clear that the spell doesn't work that way.
In order to trigger the spirit, both conditions need to be met: you need to cast the spell, and that spell needs to restore hitpoints to a creature. The obvious implication is that they need to be simultaneous. But apparently obviousness isn't a sufficient test in this thread.
If fringe case rulings like this were "obvious" then we wouldn't be having this discussion. Casting Goodberry to heal someone technically satisfies the requirements of both restoring HP and casting a spell. The confusion lies in whether or not the healing has to happen at the same time as when you cast the spell. You say it does, I say it doesn't. And there's no Sage Advice around to clarify either, so DM fiat it is.
As I said before, obviousness is generally not a good test of peoples conclusions on this forums. Casting goodberry technically doesn’t satisfy the requirements. Eating a goodberry technically doesn’t meet the requirements. Doing them subsequently while in the aura, while obviously not what the sentence describes, someone could misconstrue it to be what the rules are looking for.
Your condescension isn’t necessary. I disagree with your interpretation, but you’re welcome to rule the spell however you wish. I just don’t see how Goodberry doesn’t meet the requirement of Casting a Spell / Restoring HP when it literally does both.
So, at level 2, if I go for the Circle of the Shepherd, I can use the Unicorn Spirit as a bonus action which will add my Druids level to any healing spell, like Healing Word for example. Does this also apply to Goodberry as long as my party members eat them in the radius and while it lasts? Does the healing have to be direct? The description was a little vague;
In addition, if you cast a spell using a spell slot that restores hit points to any creature inside or outside the aura, each creature of your choice in the aura also regains hit points equal to your Druid level.
It might sound like a silly question, but 30 HP for one spell at level 2 is pretty crazy.
I really think that it isn't intended to work with goodberry. Goodberry doesn't directly restore hitpoints, it creates items that can be used to restore hitpoints. With that being said, there is SAC advice that says that eating a goodberry counts as using a spell to restore hitpoints (and thus counts for the disciple of life cleric feature).
The distinction here is that you have to cast a spell in order to trigger the unicorn spirit totem healing. Casting goodberry doesn't do any healing, and eating a berry isn't casting the spell. I still think it is a no-go.
And again, even if you allow it, you have to allow it only for the casting, not for the subsequent eating of berries.
That seems like a fair ruling. What heal spell would go with it well, though? Healing Word is tough because both using the spirit and casting the spell count as bonus actions…
I think there aren’t a ton of great options for use with it anyway. Certainly healing word could be used on subsequent turns, and the same with casting healing spirit, but other than that, you’re really looking at cure wounds. Of course there are higher level spells, but those are expensive. But since the healing only triggers on casting a spell, you’ll be burning through slots if you really want to make effective use of that feature.
You might just be better off taking the THP from the bear spirit, or maybe using a subclass that is really more centered on healing.
While goodberry does interact with Unicorn Spirit, this is not how the feature works. The Unicorn healing is not added to the healing of the spell - it is a separate healing effect that occurs immediately when you cast the spell. So casting Goodberry would immediately heal those in your Aura for an amount equal to your Druid level. Then, each berry heals for 1 HP when eaten.
Constrast Life Cleric's Disciple of Life, which triggers anytime you heal someone with your spell, instead of when you cast the spell.
Honestly, I think this is DM fiat. Goodberry is a spell that restores hitpoints, but a super literal interpretation of Unicorn spirit & Goodberry’s wording makes it ambiguous since Goodberry’s healing isn’t direct or instantaneous. I personally think that Goodberry + Unicorn is legit since the former is still a spell that you cast, even if the hp restoration isn’t instantaneous.
As for which healing spells work with the totem — the ones that have multiple uses on only 1 casting feel the worst, like Aura of Vitality, Healing Spirit, etc. Healing Word works fine. You don’t need to use a bonus action to proc the healing from the Unicorn Totem, you just need the bonus action to *move* the totem, so if you’re in a situation where you don’t have to constantly move it around, you should be fine. Cure Wounds is ok too, especially if you’re casting it through your familiar with the extended range (assuming you’re playing with Tasha’s rules).
If you really want to make the Unicorn heals feel stronger I recommend a 1 level dip in Life Cleric and / or to consider asking your DM to drop a Moon Sickle as loot or something lol.
Goodberry isn't eligible for this feature, and I don't think it's intended to be for good reason; it doesn't heal on the turn you cast it, indeed it doesn't even heal on your turn if you give them away.
The unicorn spirit is intended for triggering alongside cure wounds, healing word etc., i.e- mostly instantaneous up-front healing effects, not anything you can hold onto or that persist over time (though regenerate would count, but again only on the turn that it's cast).
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Is conjure woodland beings a spell that restores hitpoints? Does damage? Mitigates damage? How about wish? How many steps removed from the healing can the casting be?
But again, if you do allow its use, you only get the unicorn totem healing 1 time, as I said in post #2
Overall, I'd say that the unicorn spirit is a bit awkward, and you probably shouldn't count on getting too many rounds of that healing, which means the bear totem will probably provide more effective healing with fewer resources and is probably the much better option for support. The advantage on strength saves and checks could be quite useful depending on your other characters (grapplers) and the monsters you are fighting anyway.
Disciple of Life says (SAC says this does work with goodberry)
"Whenever you use a spell of 1st level or higher to restore hit points to a creature, the creature regains additional hit points equal to 2 + the spell’s level."
Unicorn Spirit Sayys
"if you cast a spell using a spell slot that restores hit points to any creature inside or outside the aura, each creature of your choice in the aura also regains hit points equal to your druid level."
I can't see the difference between "using a spell of 1st level or higher to restore hit points" and "using a spell slot that restores hit points to any creature" so RAW I think this has to be interpreted as whenever anyone eats a goodberry anyone you choose in the aura gets the healing. It is insane, I wouldn't allow it, though if it wasn't for SAC I would say that godberry creates berries not restores hit points (when it is being cast and the duration is instantanious) therefore it shouldn't work with disciple of life.
The issue is whether eating a goodberry counts as "using" a spell.
The goodberry spell ends the moment it has created the goodberries, we know this because the spell's duration is instantaneous; this mean there is no spell to "use" beyond that point. What you have are some berries with their own properties (healing and food).
This is very different to say, aura of vitality which has an explicit duration, requires concentration, and must be actively used as a bonus action each turn in order to heal. It is very unambiguously a spell you use to heal.
Goodberry is a spell you use to create goodberries; once you've done that the spell is finished, what you have beyond that is a handful of berries you can give to creatures to eat. They are not spells, they are not the continuation of a spell, and the spell itself does not heal, so it's completely ineligible for unicorn spirit's effect.
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You can’t see the difference between using and casting a spell?
I would agree with you entirely but everything you say also applies to disciple of life, and it has been confirmed that disciple of life does work with goodberry.
Except that one feature provides healing when the user casts a spell, and the other provides healing when the user uses a spell. Casting a spell and using it are different. Eating a good berry is not casting a spell.
Why would Conjure Woodland Beings work? Even if you summon a fey that can heal your team, unicorn totem only works when YOU cast the spell. So personally, I wouldn’t allow Unicorn to proc off of your summons casting healing spells, though I would obviously allow it for casting healing spells through a familiar. Goodberry is different because YOU are casting it. Its just that the healing doesn’t happen until the berry is consumed.
As for Wish, if you cast Wish to restore HP then I would allow Unicorn to proc. I think that’s way less controversial than a Goodberry + Unicorn ruling.
The problem with Disciple of Life is that the Sage Advice about it only makes things even more confusing, as they really should have errata'd the rule itself; the RAW makes it fairly clear that Disciple of Life wouldn't work with goodberry (as again, the spell has ended by the time someone actually eats a berry), but the Sage Advice contradicts this and doesn't explain why, so we've even less clarity about what the intended effect of the rules is actually supposed to be. It also doesn't address the fact that the caster may not be the one eating the berry; basically the Sage Advice directly contradicts the rules it was supposed to be clarifying, without explaining why or changing how we're supposed to read them.
We can think of goodberry as essentially being a spell to conjure many weak potions of healing. If you had bought the potion from an alchemist and drank it, would you consider yourself to be "using" the alchemist? I doubt it, as they're no longer involved, so the same logic should apply to the spell, whose involvement likewise ended once you obtained the "potions". This is an example of a really bad Sage Advice answer (and there are more than a few of them), as it doesn't give us enough information to know what the rule is actually supposed to say, which is why either the Sage Advice, or the rule itself, should have been errata'd as either the designers gave an incorrect answer or the rule they were answering about bears zero resemblance to what the designers intended and needs to be rewritten.
For example, if the rule is supposed to work as implied by the Sage Advice, then it should state something like "Whenever a creature regains hit-points as a result of a spell you cast of 1st-level or higher, the amount of hit-points regained is increased by 2 + the spell's level", as this would be so much more clearly what the Sage Advice suggests it should say (yet still doesn't six years later). Instead with got a rule that says one thing, and a Sage Advice answer that says something else, which makes it more likely that whoever answered the Sage Advice misunderstood why the question was being asked.
Even so, the unicorn spirit specifically requires casting a spell, so it's less ambiguous; you are not casting a spell when someone eats a goodberry, and it isn't restoring hit-points when you cast it, so it satisfies neither condition.
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I mean, you're saying that casting a spell that creates an item that heals you should be treated differently than casting a spell that creates a creature that heals you. If that's the way you view it, I guess you are free to an opinion, but it certainly isn't consistent.
And again, to reiterate, the relevant part of the unicorn spirit says "if you cast a spell using a spell slot that restores hit points to any creature inside or outside the aura..."
If you just cast goodberry, it has not restored hit points to any creature inside or outside the aura. If an ally just eats a goodberry that they already had from you, you have not cast a spell (sufficiently to meet the conditions of the rule), even though your spell restored hitpoints to an ally in the area.
In order to trigger the spirit, both conditions need to be met: you need to cast the spell, and that spell needs to restore hitpoints to a creature. The obvious implication is that they need to be simultaneous. But apparently obviousness isn't a sufficient test in this thread.
But even if you allow for them to be subsequent, then the two events must occur such that you have cast the spell and it restored hitpoints to a creature inside or outside the aura. That means it takes 2 actions for every instance of this healing. And since this triggers "if you cast a spell..." then that indicates that it should happen once per cast, not per healing of the spell.
Unicorn Totem specifies that it has to be YOU that casts the spell. If you summon an Alseid for example, the Alseid has to use their own action to cast Cure Wounds. Unicorn Totem specifies that YOU need to be the one to cast the spell. So no, that doesn't work. Otherwise it would specify that Unicorn Totem procs any time a healing spell is cast inside or outside the aura, and its clear that the spell doesn't work that way.
If fringe case rulings like this were "obvious" then we wouldn't be having this discussion. Casting Goodberry to heal someone technically satisfies the requirements of both restoring HP and casting a spell. The confusion lies in whether or not the healing has to happen at the same time as when you cast the spell. You say it does, I say it doesn't. And there's no Sage Advice around to clarify either, so DM fiat it is.
As I said before, obviousness is generally not a good test of peoples conclusions on this forums. Casting goodberry technically doesn’t satisfy the requirements. Eating a goodberry technically doesn’t meet the requirements. Doing them subsequently while in the aura, while obviously not what the sentence describes, someone could misconstrue it to be what the rules are looking for.
Your condescension isn’t necessary. I disagree with your interpretation, but you’re welcome to rule the spell however you wish. I just don’t see how Goodberry doesn’t meet the requirement of Casting a Spell / Restoring HP when it literally does both.