Level
1st
Casting Time
1 Action
Range/Area
Touch
Components
V, S, M *
Duration
Instantaneous
School
Transmutation
Attack/Save
None
Damage/Effect
Healing
Up to ten berries appear in your hand and are infused with magic for the duration. A creature can use its 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.
The berries lose their potency if they have not been consumed within 24 hours of the casting of this spell.
* - (a sprig of mistletoe)
"nourishment: noun, the food necessary for growth, health, and good condition."
It doesn't do anything to help with dehydration.
That is a good catch.
RAW, no you can't. A creature can use an action to eat a berry - unconscious characters cannot take actions. Unlike potions, there is no provision in the spell for feeding someone else.
i think that means they turn into normal berrys after the duration and they just lose the magical effects
So literally any 1st level druid can use this spell to create food to sustain 20 people for 24 hours?
Has anyone paused to think about how much that would break the economy of this world?
There wouldn't be any farmers. If you can just learn a tiny bit of Druidic magic and thus never have to be worried about starvation again, every town would have a sufficient number of Druids to feed said town. Starvation would never be an issue in a world where this spell exists.
Seeing that the spell is transmutation it would be the existence of the berry itself, the berries losing their "potency" would mean magic in my mind
life clerics can use the disciple of life ability to cause it to heal 2 plus the spells level so if you cast it at the 3rd level, every berry would heal 6 hit points.
casting this at the 9th level is 12 hit points per berry.
magic berries like magic beans, elven bread .. yum goodberry pie recipe :)
Ok people, let's break this spell down and "destroy" some ideas written in the comments.
1. Up to ten berries appear in your hand and are infused with magic for the duration. + The berries lose their potency if they have not been consumed within 24 hours of the casting of this spell. + Duration: Instantaneous
You can cast this spell, and summon 1-10 berries (amount of your choosing), in your hand. Within the next 24 hours, the give you written effect. After 24 hours, become regular berries.
2. Disciple of Life + Goodberry
"starting at 1st level, your healing spells are more effective. 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."
While you can restore 1 hitpoint by eating a goodberry, it is not a spell that is healing the creature eating it. The spell is to summon berries, that have a magical effect.
You won't get additional healing through Disciple of Life.
3. Baking Berries or making drinks/potions out of them.
Alright, you made a potion or baked something with multiple Goodberries, and you're eating/drinking it to restore multiple hitpoints.
Congratulations! Make a Constitution Saving through with a DC of 30, because you just now consumed multiple Berries, of which A SINGLE Berry nourishes you for a whole day, AT ONCE.
Imagine eating meals for 3-10 days within a single hour. Yep, that's probably how you're going to feel now.
So, if you pass the DC of 30, you'll just puke, get the ***** and sweat a bit. If you don't pass the DC, you also fall sick for 1d6 days. - That's how I would rule this nonsense.
4. Force feeding a unconscious or enemy creature.
I would asume, that you could do that, but it depends on the circumstances. For an unconscious creature, you would have to help them to swollow them, which would probably take longer than a single action.
You could force an enemy creature by (for example) shooting it with a slingshot (DC depending by the size of the creatures mouth) in it's mouth. BUT the creature won't take the action to "eat" it. They would do a constitution saving through to spit it out, swallow it, or choke on it. Depending on the DM and the creature's throat size, I would say.
Now, why would the creature not take an action to eat it? Simple because the action is meant for taking the berry, putting it in the mouth and then chewing&swalling it.
Just compare the time needed by eating 1 berry and by throwing a berry in someone's mouth who isn't expecting it. You'll realize, that the first action would take more time for you, then the second action would take time for the other person.
Berry haha
According to Rules Answers, a life cleric / druid gets to heal 4 points per berry. Turning a 1st level spell slot into a guaranteed 40 points of healing, and being able to do that for every slot you have, is so powerful as to be gamebreaking. Since there's no stated limit as to how many berries a person can eat, you could reasonably just use all four 1st level slots to restor 160 hit points in 4 point increments as effeciently as you'd like.
It's silly.
Yes.
You need something to cast the spell?, or the berrys magically appear out of nowhere?
I mean, for a one level dip you can get 40 healing for a first level spell slot. It's not the most useful in combat, but it reduces the need for short rests. With the new Moon Sickle, applying the same logic as life cleric, that makes a really good 10d4+40 healing for a single first level spell. Its really useful.
I'm with @BurningFalcon on this one. as the spell that was used does not provide any HP the moment the spell was cast, the life cleric does not get to add any HP bonus to the berries.
Plus I rule that the berries need to be intact to maintain their magic abilities. if they get accidentally squashed or squashed on purpose, they lose their magical ability.
here a flavour I'm considering to add to my campaign: Easting any good berry beyond the first one requires a constitution saving throw. 8+ 2xberries eaten by now. so 2nd Berry = 12, 3rd = 14, 4th = 16 etc. on a fail the person or creature does not gain any HP for that berry and suffers stomach cramps and can eat no more. the thought of eating one more berry causes pure revulsion for the next 1d4 days.
Unfortunately, nothing. This spell doesn't get any upcast benefits.
The duration is more meant here to imply "you don't have to wait for the berries to be ready" as it instantly transfers the magic to the berries. The berries keep the magic for 24 hours.
The spell requires a verbal, a somatic and a material component, as specified in the description. The material component is a sprig of mistletoe, as also specified in the description. Where the berries actually come from depends on the game's setting, I guess.
Yes, if we assume "learning a tiny bit of Druidic magic" is as easy as you let on. In low-magic settings, even a 1st-level spell is a rarity, so there would definitely be farmers. If you find the correct high-magic setting with enough druids who want to eliminate hunger, well, yes, the world could soon look a lot like Axiom from WALL-E.
Not every peasant/commoner is capable of learning magic.
There are feats so you cab skip the MC.