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Foresight
  • Level: 9
  • School: Divination
  • Class: Bard, Druid, Warlock, Wizard
  • Casting Time: 1 minute
  • Range: Touch
  • Components: V, S, M (a hummingbird feather)
  • Duration: 8 hours

You touch a willing creature and bestow a limited ability to see into the immediate future. For the duration, the target has Advantage on D20 Tests, and other creatures have Disadvantage on attack rolls against it. The spell ends early if you cast it again.

Tactical Usage​

Ultimate Advantage: Foresight provides comprehensive combat and ability advantages through supernatural prediction. This 9th-level divination spell excels at maximizing effectiveness across all activities.

Optimal Timing: Cast before important encounters, when maximum effectiveness is crucial, or for extended advantage periods.

Resource Management: Uses a 9th-level spell slot - available from character level 17+. 8-hour duration provides extensive advantage benefits.

Target Selection: Single willing creature gains comprehensive advantage on attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws.

Spell Combinations​

Synergistic Spells:

  • Enhancement Magic: Combine with other buff spells for ultimate character optimization
  • Utility Magic: Layer with skill enhancement for comprehensive ability improvement
  • Combat Magic: Pair with damage spells for enhanced effectiveness

Class Feature Interactions:

  • Lucky Feat: Advantage effects stack with luck manipulation for superior outcomes
  • Divination Features: Wizard divination abilities complement foresight prediction
  • Expertise: Skill bonuses work excellently with advantage on ability checks

Multi-Caster Coordination: Multiple foresight effects can enhance entire party effectiveness.

Material Component Details​

Component Acquisition: Hummingbird feather - rare component requiring specialized acquisition from exotic sources.

Component Handling: Delicate feather represents speed, agility, and predictive awareness.

Roleplay Opportunities: Different feather sources might reflect regional magic or divination traditions.

Economic Considerations: Rare component cost for ultimate predictive enhancement capability.

Creator Notes​

Encounter Balancing: Advantage on all rolls dramatically affects encounter balance and success rates.

NPC Usage: Legendary divination specialists or prophetic entities might possess foresight abilities.

Environmental Considerations: 8-hour duration covers multiple encounters and extended activities.

Campaign Integration: Ultimate enhancement magic for highest-level encounters requiring maximum effectiveness.

Environmental Interactions​

Terrain Effects: Advantage applies to all activities regardless of environmental conditions.

Weather Influence: Unaffected by weather conditions, providing reliable enhancement regardless of environment.

Structural Interactions: Advantage benefits apply to all interactions within any environment.

Elemental Interactions: Predictive abilities work against all creature types and elemental conditions.

Common Rulings & Clarifications​

Timing Questions: 1-minute casting time with 8-hour duration. Advantages immediate upon completion.

Target Limitations: Single willing creature. Cannot be surprised and gains advantage on all d20 rolls.

Duration Interactions: 8-hour duration provides extended enhancement. No concentration required.

Mechanical Interactions: Advantage on attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws. Cannot be surprised.

Alternative Applications​

Non-Combat Uses: Skill enhancement, social advantage, exploration assistance, or general activity optimization.

Social Encounters: Enhanced social interactions, negotiation advantages, or persuasion optimization.

Exploration Applications: Superior exploration effectiveness, trap detection, or environmental navigation.

Utility Functions: Ultimate enhancement, skill optimization, predictive assistance, or general advantage.

Same School: Other divination spells like guidance (cantrip skill assistance), enhance ability (2nd level ability enhancement), true seeing (6th level comprehensive detection).

Similar Effects: enhance ability (2nd level ability enhancement), guidance (cantrip skill assistance), bless (1st level attack advantage).

Progression Options: guidance (cantrip basic assistance), enhance ability (2nd level ability enhancement), foresight (9th level ultimate advantage).

Complementary Magic: enhance ability (additional bonuses), guidance (skill assistance), wish (ultimate magic).

Scaling Analysis​

Level Progression: Ultimate enhancement for highest-level play (17+) where maximum effectiveness is crucial.

Upcast Benefits: No improvement from higher spell slots - represents peak divination magic.

Campaign Phases: Most valuable in highest-level campaigns where ultimate advantages determine success.

Comparative Value: Exceptional enhancement magic that justifies 9th-level slot for comprehensive advantage.

Narrative Flavor​

Casting Description: Powerful divination magic grants supernatural awareness as you gain perfect prediction of immediate future events.

Effect Manifestation: Enhanced awareness allows perfect timing and positioning as you anticipate all developments.

Personal Style: Different casters manifest foresight through various predictive methods - some see potential futures, others feel instinctive awareness.

World Integration: Represents ultimate divination magic available only to master prophets, often associated with legendary foresight, divine prediction, or temporal awareness.