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<blockquote data-quote="Anime Kidd" data-source="post: 1378860" data-attributes="member: 881"><p>Was looking over the spellbook casting ability and now see how completely unbalanced it was. Potentially, one could cast spell after spell without using a single spell slot. Don't know how I missed that and am really surprised noone else caught that either. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> Now I've thought of three ways to deal with it:</p><p></p><p>As <em>eryndel</em> mentioned;</p><p>(1) have the wizard be able to cast any spell within the book spontaneously while using up a spell slot as normal</p><p>Or</p><p>(2) allow them to cast any spell they know from the spellbook with a metamagic feat applied, but with no adjustment in its spell level. But the casting time increases [standard action becomes a full-round action and a full-round action becomes two full-round actions], and the spell still uses up the spell slot (again, did I read it right?)</p><p></p><p>Option (3) is to have them be able to learn a new spell from their spellbook in place of a currently known spell of equal level or higher. This would take about 10 minutes, or an hour, to replace one spell</p><p></p><p>Both options 1 and 3 allow for a greater spell flexibility, but still be limited by how many spells per day they can use. Option 2 adds some punch with spells, but still limits their spellcasting with the longer casting time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anime Kidd, post: 1378860, member: 881"] Was looking over the spellbook casting ability and now see how completely unbalanced it was. Potentially, one could cast spell after spell without using a single spell slot. Don't know how I missed that and am really surprised noone else caught that either. :eek: Now I've thought of three ways to deal with it: As [i]eryndel[/i] mentioned; (1) have the wizard be able to cast any spell within the book spontaneously while using up a spell slot as normal Or (2) allow them to cast any spell they know from the spellbook with a metamagic feat applied, but with no adjustment in its spell level. But the casting time increases [standard action becomes a full-round action and a full-round action becomes two full-round actions], and the spell still uses up the spell slot (again, did I read it right?) Option (3) is to have them be able to learn a new spell from their spellbook in place of a currently known spell of equal level or higher. This would take about 10 minutes, or an hour, to replace one spell Both options 1 and 3 allow for a greater spell flexibility, but still be limited by how many spells per day they can use. Option 2 adds some punch with spells, but still limits their spellcasting with the longer casting time. [/QUOTE]
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