Aside from the change between standard action and bonus action, can you give a berry to an unconscious or dying person? or does it have to be the beneficiary PC who uses the bonus action?
RAW, no.. "A creature can take a Bonus Action to eat one berry." This is intentionally written. You can not take actions or bonus actions while unconsciousness.
A healing potion is specifically and intentionally different, it specifies "...or administer it to another creature".
...it's magic...that's just how it works.
nor would I allow it in my game as a homebrew rule, it utterly guts the point and value of healing potions.
The original post is asking whether you would allow giving…
No it isn’t, it asked ‘can you’. It’s pretty clearly asking about actual rules of the new spell-in the RULES forum. The answer is, RAW, no. Homebrew you can do whatever you want, but the spell, as written, doesn’t allow it. there is no ‘can you’ when it comes to home brewing your own version of a spell…you can make it do whatever you want.
the length of time the *goodberrys* are around is not spelled out.
The duration of the spell is Instantaneous....
Ten berries appear in your hand and are infused with magic for the duration (?Instantaneous?). A creature can take a Bonus Action to eat one berry. Eating a berry restores 1 Hit Point, and the berry provides enough nourishment to sustain a creature for one day.
Uneaten berries disappear when the spell ends (?Instantaneous?).
So the berries are around only durring the casters turn? or for the casters bonus action?
Apparently the fact that many people use a goodberry to stabilize unconscious people was not taken into effect in the 6th edition (2024 PHB). This use of it should be added to future printings of the spell, but only one goodberry can be administered for this purpose. Any more fed to the unconscious character will not heal a creature to positive hit points. This protects and makes potions the only ITEMS that can restore the unconscious to positive hit points.
Aside from the change between standard action and bonus action, can you give a berry to an unconscious or dying person? or does it have to be the beneficiary PC who uses the bonus action?
RAW, no.. "A creature can take a Bonus Action to eat one berry." This is intentionally written. You can not take actions or bonus actions while unconsciousness.
A healing potion is specifically and intentionally different, it specifies "...or administer it to another creature".
...it's magic...that's just how it works.
nor would I allow it in my game as a homebrew rule, it utterly guts the point and value of healing potions.
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You’re referencing 2014 rule rulings for 2024 spells…after the spell has been re-evaluated and updated since that ruling.
RAW, the answer is still no. Homebrew you can shove it up someone’s nose and it works
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*opens persons mouth, puts berry in, moves persons jaw*
wait if i dm ruled this would that turn goodberries into senzu beans from dbz?
No it isn’t, it asked ‘can you’. It’s pretty clearly asking about actual rules of the new spell-in the RULES forum. The answer is, RAW, no. Homebrew you can do whatever you want, but the spell, as written, doesn’t allow it. there is no ‘can you’ when it comes to home brewing your own version of a spell…you can make it do whatever you want.
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I would not allow it. Giving food to an unconscious person is dangerous!
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the length of time the *goodberrys* are around is not spelled out.
The duration of the spell is Instantaneous....
Ten berries appear in your hand and are infused with magic for the duration (?Instantaneous?). A creature can take a Bonus Action to eat one berry. Eating a berry restores 1 Hit Point, and the berry provides enough nourishment to sustain a creature for one day.
Uneaten berries disappear when the spell ends (?Instantaneous?).
So the berries are around only durring the casters turn? or for the casters bonus action?
@Dr_Selastraga was comenting that here:
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Wait what? Oh, this seems to be a tooltip error. Both the printed book and the Compendium version specify that the duration is 24 hours.
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Omg thank you! This explains a lot!
Apparently the fact that many people use a goodberry to stabilize unconscious people was not taken into effect in the 6th edition (2024 PHB). This use of it should be added to future printings of the spell, but only one goodberry can be administered for this purpose. Any more fed to the unconscious character will not heal a creature to positive hit points. This protects and makes potions the only ITEMS that can restore the unconscious to positive hit points.