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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FoxWander" data-source="post: 5042473" data-attributes="member: 1356">Glad you liked the idea at least. The background stuff was just what I came up with not knowing the specifics for your character. My only thought was finding some way to put your character a little more in charge of what spells you are in your prayerbook-- instead of relying on what the DM decides to give you. Now, if your DM is going to work your class into the story and be pretty good about having you find prayers and scrolls, then this whole idea may be unnecessary. I know the spellthief mechanics don't necessarily support copying stolen spells into your own books, but perhaps that's something you can work with your DM on. Either changing the class's mechanic so you can only steal spells for the purpose of scribing them later, and be unable to just cast them right away OR maybe a feat to that effect- one that lets you choose to not cast a spell right away and instead retain it for later scribing in your book. Anything that keeps you from being limited to just the spells gained when you level up (and whatever scrolls you can find/buy) will make your character that much better.The whole idea for this comes from my frustration in a previous campaign where the limited number of spells my wizard had in his book became a huge liability as the campaign progressed. It was a fairly fast-paced game so we never had downtime for me to even get extra spells for copying. On top of that the DM never put scrolls in the loot we found AND we always faced sorcerers- not wizards. So I never got spellbooks as loot either. The 2 free spells from leveling are great, but if that's all you ever get you quickly become pretty limited in what you can do. I got so fed up with the situation that I created a PRC for my character built around the idea of stealing spells from other spellcasters!Maybe your DM will be better than mine. If not, this idea is an option that can possible get around the major limitation of an archivist- the availability of new "prayers" to copy.</blockquote>

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