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Message: <blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 5964624" data-attributes="member: 3192">What if Rituals were scrolls? You find an old spellbook in a treasure horde. You cast "Read Magic" and begin leafing through it. At first there are spells you know or have already collected to try and learn.Then there are new spells you do not have a copy of. Perhaps you've seen them cast, perhaps even at you, but these spells are as uncastable by you. (Spell unknown to the players may be even more alluring.) Next, you find a quiet place to attempt to learn the spells in the book. Sometimes you succeed, sometimes you fail, but sometimes you learn that a particular spell is beyond your current ability to understand. It is a higher level spell than your current casting ability. Could you try and make it work with only a partial understanding of how it works? Sure, you could try. And you even stand a reasonable chance of doing so as someone proficient in spellcasting, but doing so expends the copy of the spell in the book. The ink fades away, the paper flares to ash, or crumbles into dust.The resource to cast a high level spell is expensive and really only accessible to highly trained spell casters. But it is still a possibility to try, if you choose to.</blockquote>