TwinPeaksGuy
Explorer
I've tended to play gish casters for whom the wizard spellbook rules are irrelevant, but I'm now considering one, and see a potential problem. I'll concede I may not be understanding the rules correctly.
If the only way to grow a wizard's spell list is to copy spells from found spellbooks and there are only one or two per season, which may not contain any spells of the wizard's school, then how can you really build "Tim the Enchanter" when after initial creation all Tim finds are divination and conjuration spells? Of course Tim might want to have a few spells from other schools for utilitarian reasons, but unless there's something like one focused spellbook per school per season, how does that progression even work in AL? The chance of amassing all spells of a particular school that are of a level you can cast seems pretty remote.
Or do wizards simply have to take what they're given, and schools are indeed pretty meaningless?
If the only way to grow a wizard's spell list is to copy spells from found spellbooks and there are only one or two per season, which may not contain any spells of the wizard's school, then how can you really build "Tim the Enchanter" when after initial creation all Tim finds are divination and conjuration spells? Of course Tim might want to have a few spells from other schools for utilitarian reasons, but unless there's something like one focused spellbook per school per season, how does that progression even work in AL? The chance of amassing all spells of a particular school that are of a level you can cast seems pretty remote.
Or do wizards simply have to take what they're given, and schools are indeed pretty meaningless?