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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7751461" data-attributes="member: 29398">Too safe, IMO: an aspect I very quickly came to dislike about 3 (and later, 4-5e) spell designNever mind that a long time ago we also put in a rule that the caster of any such spell had to roll to aim it properly - usually pretty easy, but rolling a 2 and having your fireball wreck on an obstacle halfway to its intended destination...yeah, there's risk when using this magic stuff. <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=":)" />Not really.&nbsp; Just some people getting clever about how their books are protected.Every time they kill a red dragon, for example, a fair bit of its hide comes home for use in constructing fire-resistant spellbook covers and-or containers.But yes, ideally what spell is in what book is recorded - in practice it sometimes comes down to random roll if the player hasn't kept good records and has more than one book.Lan-&quot;as a character I got hit with friendly fire(ball) so many times I ended up buying a wizardslayer longsword - if you hit me now you'd better hope you kill me, as otherwise it'll be the last thing you do&quot;-efan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7751461, member: 29398"] Too safe, IMO: an aspect I very quickly came to dislike about 3 (and later, 4-5e) spell design Never mind that a long time ago we also put in a rule that the caster of any such spell had to roll to aim it properly - usually pretty easy, but rolling a 2 and having your fireball wreck on an obstacle halfway to its intended destination...yeah, there's risk when using this magic stuff. :) Not really. Just some people getting clever about how their books are protected. Every time they kill a red dragon, for example, a fair bit of its hide comes home for use in constructing fire-resistant spellbook covers and-or containers. But yes, ideally what spell is in what book is recorded - in practice it sometimes comes down to random roll if the player hasn't kept good records and has more than one book. Lan-"as a character I got hit with friendly fire(ball) so many times I ended up buying a wizardslayer longsword - if you hit me now you'd better hope you kill me, as otherwise it'll be the last thing you do"-efan [/QUOTE]

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