Learning spells....

[Darmanicus]

Nik mentioned last night about the crap wizards have to go thru to learn and scribe spells from another wizards spell-book.

Personally I think the way it's set down in the books is balls and we've never really adhered to it previously therefore just want your confirmation that it's ok to do away with that and just be able to use other books as is and scribe without cost, (actually it's more about being able to use another mages book).

The way I see it is that magic is just another language and I find it hard to visualize that every single mage writes magic in a different langauge, it just sounds absurd! Sure if the mage is maybe of a different race however a human mage should be able to use another mages book without having to decipher another human mages book and scribe into his own.

Your ruling would be appreciated on this Russ.

 

[Morrus]

God, no! If I thought I was just handing out free spells, I'd wouldn't have given you an entire pile of them!

 

[Darmanicus]

God, no! If I thought I was just handing out free spells, I'd wouldn't have given you an entire pile of them!

Ok nps, just gonna have to ask the guys for some sodding downtime then

 

[Eccles]

To say nothing of 50(?)gp per page which you don't have.

There's something in the rules about familiarising yourself with someone else's spellbook, isn't there?

 

[Darmanicus]

To say nothing of 50(?)gp per page which you don't have.

There's something in the rules about familiarising yourself with someone else's spellbook, isn't there?

Er, yeah thanks Nik for telling me how much gold I don't have....real useful bit of information?

Anyways it gets better, it cost 100gp/page and takes a day/level of the spell so I suppose I'll be able to scribe them when I'm about 7th level.

Stoopid ruling.

Familiarisation is no problem, I just cast read magic and it's automatic.

 

[Inconsequenti-AL]

In this case, we better enforce some serious downtime at regular intervals.

Otherwise you'll just be getting the 2 free spells at each level and that's silly!

 

[Morrus]

Hmmm... OK, I didn't realise it was quite that harsh!

I doubt money will be a problem as the campaign progresses (remember you've only just gotten partway into the first adventure so far).

How did we handle it in previous campaigns?

 

[Darmanicus]

Well the cost of scribing will be fine, I can put up with that. I'd suggest maybe reducing the time spent to scribe to 1 hour/level unless of course you just want to allow the downtime?

In previous campaigns we have just done away with all the normal rulings as far back as I can remember; when you find a new spell you just auto learn. Mind you me Wiz in the prev long campaign died pretty quickly.

 

[Eccles]

With Al scribing scrolls and me (probably at lvl 6) and Steve both having Craft Magic Item feats, there's likely to be a bit of a demand for downtime, anyway...

 

[Darmanicus]

With Al scribing scrolls and me (probably at lvl 6) and Steve both having Craft Magic Item feats, there's likely to be a bit of a demand for downtime, anyway...

However it would be nice to be able to use the new spells I get before I have to put another 3 levels under my belt.

Just remember it is for the benefit of the party.