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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 3255152" data-attributes="member: 19675">Of course not.  You look first to similar feats for clarification.  If none exists, you check with WotC (FAQ/Eratta/CustServ).  You then examine whatever you find in those sources and make a ruling for your campaign...and I do mean campaign.  I can reasonably forsee running different campaigns with slightly different rules interpretations in order to fit the demands of the campaign setting.  After all, 2Ed did just that by nixing spells for Clerics in Dragonlance.Here, we have a clearly analogous feat, nearly as similar to it as Practiced Spellcaster is to Practiced Manifester.  As yet, I've seen no convincing reason why 2 feats so similar should be adjudicated so differently when the main difference is explicitness vs silence.(And, for the record, Extra Spell isn't silent as to how many spells you get to learn.  It closes by saying that you may take the feat multiple times, each time for a new spell- just like Expanded Knowledge works with psionic powers.) Its not my rule- the research rules are in black & white on pg 179 of the PHB.1) As has been pointed out by others, the costs of time and gold are not trivial, and may in fact hinder a PC from learning a spell.2) Despite expending time and GP, the wizard may fail his Spellcraft check, rendering him unable to research the spell at that time.  If he deems the spell vital enough, he may see burning a Feat to learn it as a valid option.  There may also be campaign-specific reasons why a spell cannot be learned through the process delineated on pg 179.For example- I ran a campaign in which the party was marooned on a deserted island for their first 5 levels.  The island was a hunting preserve, with the party as the prey du jour.  Without a lab, a library, any gold or time for research, the PC turned to learning how to fight (he took Ftr levels).  Had he considered it, Extra Spell could have broadened his arsenal a bit. To reduce options right out of the gate, thus providing initial form to spellcasting classes, and, of course, to continue to restrict the spell access of those PCs that don't take advantage of the research rules (for whatever reason).</blockquote>

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