Spellbooks, Spells, and the Number of Pages

Enevhar Aldarion · Nov 18, 2018

aco175 said:
What level do you need to be to fill up a 100 page book if it is 1 page per spell.

1 page per level of the spell, nor just 1 page per spell, so a level 1 spell uses 1 page and a level 9 spell uses 9 pages. Depending on how quickly a DM allows a PC Mage to acquire new spells, a 20th level mage could have several full spell books, definitely more than one each for just the higher level spells.

TallIan · Nov 18, 2018

aco175 said:
What level do you need to be to fill up a 100 page book if it is 1 page per spell.

Theoretically a 3rd level Wizard could fill 98 pages just from just the PHB spell list. There are 30 level 1 spells and 34 level 2 spells.

If you go with just the spells gained as you level (assuming you always take the max level), a 13th level Wizard should need 102 pages in their spell book.

LordEntrails · Nov 18, 2018

TallIan said:
Theoretically a 3rd level Wizard could fill 98 pages just from just the PHB spell list. There are 30 level 1 spells and 34 level 2 spells.

If you go with just the spells gained as you level (assuming you always take the max level), a 13th level Wizard should need 102 pages in their spell book.

Thanks, I didn't want to do the math to answer this

Azzy · Nov 18, 2018

TallIan said:
Theoretically a 3rd level Wizard could fill 98 pages just from just the PHB spell list. There are 30 level 1 spells and 34 level 2 spells.

If you go with just the spells gained as you level (assuming you always take the max level), a 13th level Wizard should need 102 pages in their spell book.

I think that's why I always hated that rule--it requires higher level characters to carry around multiple spellbooks if they want to memorize/prepare their spells. :/

TallIan · Nov 19, 2018

LordEntrails said:
Thanks, I didn't want to do the math to answer this

Always a pleasure ;P

Azzy said:
I think that's why I always hated that rule--it requires higher level characters to carry around multiple spellbooks if they want to memorize/prepare their spells. :/

I think that like any bookkeeping in an RPG it depends what you want to do. I know some people LOVE to keep track of every morsel of food, fletching and sock their character carries. But that rule makes for a handy guide, that can be ignored if you have an adventuring wizard who only has a limited selection of spells (2/ level) or used to gauge the size of a wizard's great library of hundreds of spells, stored away in his tower.

TaranTheWanderer · Nov 19, 2018

The bright side of having spells in multiple books is, if one gets stolen, it might just be the one filled with all your level 1 and 3 spells. But you still have your level 4-9 spells!

Unless you organize your books by category: “oh no, my book of buffs is gone! Looks like I’m going straight offense until I get it back!”

LordEntrails · Nov 20, 2018

TaranTheWanderer said:
The bright side of having spells in multiple books is, if one gets stolen, it might just be the one filled with all your level 1 and 3 spells. But you still have your level 4-9 spells!

Unless you organize your books by category: “oh no, my book of buffs is gone! Looks like I’m going straight offense until I get it back!”

Where do you keep your level 2 spells? *G*

TaranTheWanderer · Nov 20, 2018

LordEntrails said:
Where do you keep your level 2 spells? *G*

I lent that book to the bard.

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