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Shadow-touched

When Strom levels in bard he gets a feat or ability score improvement. If he takes Shadow-touched , he gains +1 Wis (that would be a 16 now) which raises a few skills and his saving throw. He will gain access to Invisibility so he can drop that as a spell. But he also gains a new first level necromatic spell, so let's look at False Life . You gain D4+4 temporary hit points. If you cast this spell using a higher level spell slot, you gain an additional +5 hit points. So Strom has a lot of benefits from taking this spell.     False Life Cure Wounds  1st level   6.5  7.5  2nd level  11.5  12  3rd level  16.5  16.5  4th level  21.5  21  5th level  26.5  25.5 Part of that is Strom's Charisma score in regards to cast Cure Wounds or Healing Word would only provide him with a +3 bonus because he's sitting at 16 instead of 18 or 20. But that would still only increase the effect of each spell by +1 or +2 if his ability score was dramatically higher. If Strom used every