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Does spirit weapon and/or prayer of healing scale up the higher the slot you use?
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and virtually no third level spells prepared.

Wait, so you didn't prepare the ressurect(revivify) available to you in 3rd level spells? No Beacon of Hope? Which automatically maximizes healing spells for any number of creatures you choose? As in, whatever the maximum amount is that could be healed on a healing spell, it automatically does it. PLUS gives advantage on Wisdom and Death saving throws? 

But whyyyyyyyy? 
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I can't prepare any third level spells until we long rest. I just have the two from my knowledge domain until then.
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Thems the rules
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@Buddamoose
Does spirit weapon and/or prayer of healing scale up the higher the slot you use?

They both do but spirit weapon is only one damage die for every two levels after second (so 4,6,8 etc) so prayer of healing will scale at third but spirit weapon won't. Still its like I have four second level slots instead of two at the very least.
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Magic circle set to affect fey would have been useful during that hag fight.
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I can't prepare any third level spells until we long rest. I just have the two from my knowledge domain until then.

Ohhh, I thought you had  the opportunity to prepare 3rd level spells already. It just occurred to me that we actually hit level 5 today, post our last LR.  I was so bamboozled there for a moment, and was like, "but, this is so not like Merlin. Maybe he was tired? I can't imagine him not taking a ressurect spell at first opportunity" 😂. 

Instead, i was just being a derp. Which is expected tbh 😂.

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Nope we haven't long rested since hitting lvl 5
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Luraxt has tiny hut in his spellbook though and it has a ritual tag so we are camping in style from now on.
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Magic circle set to affect fey would have been useful during that hag fight.

True, that in conjunction with silence would effectively neutralize them entirely. Make it so they can't exit the circle pop a silence in the circles area, and bam, they cant cast spells and cant move. Easy peasy. The issue i see  is it takes 1 minute to prep it, so doing it on the fly in the middle of combat doesn't seem all too feasible 😓. 
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We need to work on planning ahead.
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(when we have the opportunity to, like with the hags ,absolutely. We can try to sneak in when they're gone and set up a circle in the hopes they planar shift into the circle? It
might be good for trapping one or two that way 👍.)
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We need to gather Intel about the amber temple so we can plan ahead for it
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We need to gather intel period. That's why I asked a few times about a bookstore. Was hoping to find some historical books that outline more about Barovias history and political climate. Like, is there a capital? Or is it more like city-states? Or perhaps similar to Germania pre-unification? 

Is Krezk larger than Vallaki? If so there's a good chance we find a library, magic shops, bookstores, stuff like that, that could potentially divulge regional, political, location, etc. information. 

When we get back into town we should inquire around about Krezk, the Temple, etc. Methinks my meeting set up with the mysterious strangers benefactor could shed light on some of these things/point us in the direction to obtain such info.
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Maybe even get lucky and find like, blueprints to Castle Ravenloft that helps us plan out how we'll infiltrate it, giving us another option besides storm the gates with as many others as we can muster 😂, which was a total failure last time from what we were told.

There's gotta at least be a library somewhere in Barovia with historical records and the like. Unless Barovians aren't the reading and writing type 😂. 

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FYI, I'm going to turn off general notifications for this thread for me since it's mainly for your benefit. If you have a specific question for me, @me.
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the church would mostly have such records I would think.
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(it sounded like the abbey in Krezk might be such a place. I mean, the leader of it was called an "Abbot", as in "Abbey" instead of a church, that indicates it's on the larger side and likely has historical texts among other things stored away.) 
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@buddamoose @thedredpriateroberts @kindertina @earth
Does anybody have a way to snap this fisherman out of it?
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Knocking him out was the last thing i could think of tbh. It's not magic, so the guy could legit just be crazy tbh.
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Can I join the game at some point?
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Not at the moment, no.
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if a spot ever opens up for me to create a character and join, lemme know :3
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Sure, but I found you original character concept to be a little too "wacky" for the tone of campaign I like to run.
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Which one? The little wizard/witch child whose gender can never be figured out, or the guy with the multiple personalities 
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We have so much to do before we can even think about resurrecting those 2.  My focus is how best to succeed and survive and we need more tools to do both.  What level do you get that spell at?
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@Earth- Moved this to OOC chat

Not all diamonds are created equal. Based on the relative value of the other treasures its unlikely fmpov that they're at the 25,000gp value needed for the material component of the True Ressurect spell, which is a 9th level spell. To give a sense of how powerful that is, you don't get 9th level spells until at least level 16 or 17. 

Don't all spellcasters, well at least Merlin, Lux, and Snerp, have focuses that allow for not needing material components to cast.)

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