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<blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 3156358" data-attributes="member: 1288">The problem there is that many D&amp;D campaigns are a single, drawn-out story (there was no time for scribing spells in the trip to Mount Doom, for instance). Others are set in circumstances where downtime is contrary to the feel of the game. (Many adventures, including published scenarios like Red Hand of Doom, have a &quot;race the clock&quot; element.)I agree there should be a mechanic to keep wizards' spellbooks from getting infinitely large with every spell in the game, but I don't think the current mechanic is it. It costs too much (minor problem, but still a problem, IME), and takes far too much time per spell (major problem IME).IIRC, some older editions had a rule where a wizard could only have X number of spells in his spellbook based on his Intelligence. His mind simply couldn't comprehend any more than that. I wouldn't mind going back to that (as long as X was reasonably large), and reduce the costs and scribing times to a minimal amount.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mouseferatu, post: 3156358, member: 1288"] The problem there is that many D&D campaigns are a single, drawn-out story (there was no time for scribing spells in the trip to Mount Doom, for instance). Others are set in circumstances where downtime is contrary to the feel of the game. (Many adventures, including published scenarios like [i]Red Hand of Doom[/i], have a "race the clock" element.) I agree there should be a mechanic to keep wizards' spellbooks from getting infinitely large with every spell in the game, but I don't think the current mechanic is it. It costs too much (minor problem, but still a problem, IME), and takes [i]far[/i] too much time per spell (major problem IME). IIRC, some older editions had a rule where a wizard could only have X number of spells in his spellbook based on his Intelligence. His mind simply couldn't comprehend any more than that. I wouldn't mind going back to that (as long as X was reasonably large), and reduce the costs and scribing times to a minimal amount. [/QUOTE]

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