Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Feir Fireb" data-source="post: 1173400" data-attributes="member: 14074">TractatusSo, even if you'll be able to write a given tractatus sometime soon, it's likely to still be useful.  In fact, it's even *more* likely to be useful then, because that means you know the spell and can hence benefit from reading it.  CP, correct me if I'm wrong, but one can benefit from multiple tractatus that cover the same spell as long as a) you haven't written them yourself [that would be cheesy] and b) they're different works.  It would be like reading different academic papers on the same subject.Thus you could have Tractatus #1 on Transformation of the Ravenous Beast to the Torpid Toad (TotRBttTT for short) written by Pseudolus of Magvillus on the susceptability of toad's muscles to unfavorable auras during casting,  Tractatus #2 on TotRBttTT by Quasimodo of Fudarus on the essential nature of toad warts, and Tractatus #3 on TotRBttTT by Brigitta of, say, Lumen Montis, on the role that the passage of time plays in ending the spell (or on the particular difficulties of turning a magical goat into a toad).  Brigitta could read #1 and #2, but not #3.Is this right?  Although even if Brigitta could only benefit from #1 or #2 but not both, either would still be useful since she and anyone else who could cast the spell might benefit from them, whereas I would not expect her to benefit from #3.P.S.  I'm guessing the Imaginem Summa and LQ would be of greatest interest to me--lots of longterm benefits, and relevant to a few spells I'd really like.I'll send my reply to Polybius soon, really I will.  I've written a lot already, probably more than I should, even without covering a few important points.  But recent busyness has kept me from completing it.</blockquote>

Verification