Lunar Oracle Moonlight Script doesn't work before lvl 5


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It says it works like Augury,which can predict stuff for the next half hour. Yet, since I'm sleeping, I really don't care about things happening before I wake up, because I'm unable to read, what I write while asleep.


The writer copied a different revelation, changed the flavor, and couldn't be arsed to spend 30 seconds considering the implications.

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Since it doesn't specify when you write, just that it happens once during the night, you could argue that you write just before you wake up.


Jeff Merola wrote:
Since it doesn't specify when you write, just that it happens once during the night, you could argue that you write just before you wake up.

"Is my morning dump going to be brief or long?"


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Jeff Merola wrote:
Since it doesn't specify when you write, just that it happens once during the night, you could argue that you write just before you wake up.

and then you spend the first 15 minutes concentrating on life, the universe and everything.

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Winterschuh wrote:
Jeff Merola wrote:
Since it doesn't specify when you write, just that it happens once during the night, you could argue that you write just before you wake up.
and then you spend the first 15 minutes concentrating on life, the universe and everything.

He is a divine caster, so this apply:

PRD wrote:
Time of Day: A divine spellcaster chooses and prepares spells ahead of time, but unlike a wizard, does not require a period of rest to prepare spells. Instead, the character chooses a particular time of day to pray and receive spells. The time is usually associated with some daily event. If some event prevents a character from praying at the proper time, she must do so as soon as possible. If the character does not stop to pray for spells at the first opportunity, she must wait until the next day to prepare spells.

A lunar oracle almost certainly would recover his spell when the moon is in the sky, not when he wakes.

That can be inconvenient at times, depending on the cycle of the moon in your world.
As most caster that don't recover their spell at the same time as other member of their group they can suffer from the Recent Casting Limit.
PRD wrote:


Recent Casting Limit: As with arcane spells, at the time of preparation any spells cast within the previous 8 hours count against the number of spells that can be prepared.


Casual Viking wrote:
The writer copied a different revelation, changed the flavor, and couldn't be arsed to spend 30 seconds considering the implications.

What are you proposing it should be saying instead?


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Diego Rossi wrote:


A lunar oracle almost certainly would recover his spell when the moon is in the sky, not when he wakes.
That can be inconvenient at times, depending on the cycle of the moon in your world.
As most caster that don't recover their spell at the same time as other member of their group they can suffer from the Recent Casting Limit.
PRD wrote:


Recent Casting Limit: As with arcane spells, at the time of preparation any spells cast within the previous 8 hours count against the number of spells that can be prepared.

Have you never seen the moon in the sky in the morning? Assuming the moon in setting is similar, it's just brightest at night.

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Lavawight wrote:
Diego Rossi wrote:


A lunar oracle almost certainly would recover his spell when the moon is in the sky, not when he wakes.
That can be inconvenient at times, depending on the cycle of the moon in your world.
As most caster that don't recover their spell at the same time as other member of their group they can suffer from the Recent Casting Limit.
PRD wrote:


Recent Casting Limit: As with arcane spells, at the time of preparation any spells cast within the previous 8 hours count against the number of spells that can be prepared.
Have you never seen the moon in the sky in the morning? Assuming the moon in setting is similar, it's just brightest at night.

Yes, some morning you see the moon, and some afternoon and some night. The time of the raising and setting of the moon change every day. So, as I did say "That can be inconvenient at times, depending on the cycle of the moon in your world."

Usually adventures don't come only when it is convenient for the oracle and the moon raise or is at its zenith when he wake. Sometime they come at other times.


Ellioti wrote:
Casual Viking wrote:
The writer copied a different revelation, changed the flavor, and couldn't be arsed to spend 30 seconds considering the implications.
What are you proposing it should be saying instead?

"At 1st level, the prophetic writing manifests as an augury spell, about an action planned for the upcoming day, with 90% effectiveness." The original ability is from the Seer archetype and took 1 minute to activate, so despite the extension on Augury, the ability is still strictly worse.

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