I have a player in the process of building a level 6 Ranger with two archetypes: Spirit Ranger and Woodland Skirmisher (née Nirmathi Irregular).
The Woodland Skirmisher archetype specifies:
Woodland Skirmisher Spells wrote:
A woodland skirmisher also learns to draw upon druidic magic. Each day when the ranger prepares spells, he may choose one druid spell and prepare it as if it were on the ranger spell list as a ranger spell of its druid spell level.
And the Spirit Ranger archetype says:
Wisdom of the Spirits wrote:
[A Spirit Ranger] can call upon these spirits to cast any one Ranger spell that he is capable of casting, without having to prepare the spell. At 8th level, and every four levels thereafter, he can cast an additional spell in this way.
I'm trying to suss out how these two interact. The Wisdom of the Spirits ability essentially allows him to cast one spell spontaneously. The variant spellcasting from Woodland Skirmisher effectively opens up the Druid spell list to him.
Does the Wisdom of the Spirits ability allow him to, in essence, spontaneously cast a level 1 Druid spell?
If so, is it ONLY the spell he chose that morning, or could he select any Druid spell?
My inclination is to say that yes, Wisdom of the Spirits works with a Druid spell that he has prepared, but only that spell, treating it as if that one selected spell had been added to the Ranger spell list for the day.
So he could prep, say, Touch of the Sea in the morning, cast it normally, and then use Wisdom of the Spirits to cast it again. But he could not prep Touch of the Sea and then use Wisdom of the Spirits to cast Obscuring Mist.
It's not especially major either way. Even if I were to let him use Wisdom of the Spirits on any Druid spell he's capable of prepping, that's still just one extra first-level spell. At level 6. So, not a huge deal. Just trying to make sense of it, is all.
