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<blockquote data-quote="SweeneyTodd" data-source="post: 4271164" data-attributes="member: 9391">Mechanically, a Spellbook does two things:- holds rituals- holds your wizard encounter and daily powers, in that you have the ability to use a spellbook to swap out your daily load of Wizard powers.A character multiclassed into Wizard doesn't have ritual casting (if you take it as a separate feat, you just buy/make a ritual book), and they don't have extra powers to &quot;swap out&quot;, so the second effect isn't relevant either.The character might have a book that he's written out rituals and spells in, but mechanically it's not a Spellbook. If that makes any sense. And they don't need to prepare their spells for the day because they don't have a list to pick what to prepare from -- they have what they have.Since Spellbook is a class feature of Wizard with a mechanical benefit and an &quot;in-fiction&quot; drawback that's only implied, I'd probably let wizards who didn't have access to their spellbook regain their encounters/dailies after an extended rest, just not switch them. That way a wizard without their spellbook doesn't get its benefits, but isn't totally ineffective either.Heck, I can't even find a definition of the phrase &quot;prepare a spell&quot; in the PHB, so this might even be by RAW. The exact wording is&quot;After an extended rest, you can prepare a number of daily and utility spells according to what you can cast per day for your level. You can't prepare the same spell twice.&quot; That makes me think &quot;preparing a spell&quot; is totally optional, and that if you don't, they follow the usual rules for refreshing encounters and dailies. Doesn't match old versions at all, I know, but so far trying to use 3.x &quot;common sense&quot; with 4e rules doesn't work so I'm trying to avoid it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="SweeneyTodd, post: 4271164, member: 9391"] Mechanically, a Spellbook does two things: - holds rituals - holds your wizard encounter and daily powers, in that you have the ability to use a spellbook to swap out your daily load of Wizard powers. A character multiclassed into Wizard doesn't have ritual casting (if you take it as a separate feat, you just buy/make a ritual book), and they don't have extra powers to "swap out", so the second effect isn't relevant either. The character might have a book that he's written out rituals and spells in, but mechanically it's not a Spellbook. If that makes any sense. And they don't need to prepare their spells for the day because they don't have a list to pick what to prepare from -- they have what they have. Since Spellbook is a class feature of Wizard with a mechanical benefit and an "in-fiction" drawback that's only implied, I'd probably let wizards who didn't have access to their spellbook regain their encounters/dailies after an extended rest, just not switch them. That way a wizard without their spellbook doesn't get its benefits, but isn't totally ineffective either. Heck, I can't even find a definition of the phrase "prepare a spell" in the PHB, so this might even be by RAW. The exact wording is "After an extended rest, you can prepare a number of daily and utility spells according to what you can cast per day for your level. You can't prepare the same spell twice." That makes me think "preparing a spell" is totally optional, and that if you don't, they follow the usual rules for refreshing encounters and dailies. Doesn't match old versions at all, I know, but so far trying to use 3.x "common sense" with 4e rules doesn't work so I'm trying to avoid it. :) [/QUOTE]

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