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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6640514" data-attributes="member: 37579">It's the baseline for the rules. Maybe. Maybe not. I've played in a magic lite campaign where the party only encountered a single hostile wizard. Princes of the Apocalypse only has a single spellbook to be captured and most of the scrolls are for the spells in the appendix of that book. Despite Red Wizards being a focus of the campaign, there's no mention of spellbooks in either Hoard of the Dragon Queen or Tyranny of Dragons, and the former has maybe a half-dozen scrolls while the later has twice that but provides the same spell on a scroll multiple times. This also assumes the NPC wizard has the &quot;correct&quot; number of spells (the one example, in Princes of the Apocalypse, only has her prepared spells, so less than half her expected spells) AND assumes the spells provided are ones the PC needs. There are go-to spells a spellcaster will prepare, both for a PC and an NPC combatant. There's a good chance of overlap unless the wizard is really playing support (in which case the added spells are ones undesired anyway). I don't see adventuring providing a wealth of desired spells unless the DM is feeling generous, or setting out explicitly to provide new spells.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 6640514, member: 37579"] It's the baseline for the rules. Maybe. Maybe not. I've played in a magic lite campaign where the party only encountered a single hostile wizard. [I]Princes of the Apocalypse[/I] only has a single spellbook to be captured and most of the scrolls are for the spells in the appendix of that book. Despite Red Wizards being a focus of the campaign, there's no mention of spellbooks in either [I]Hoard of the Dragon Queen[/I] or [I]Tyranny of Dragons[/I], and the former has maybe a half-dozen scrolls while the later has twice that but provides the same spell on a scroll multiple times. This also assumes the NPC wizard has the "correct" number of spells (the one example, in [I]Princes of the Apocalypse[/I], only has her prepared spells, so less than half her expected spells) AND assumes the spells provided are ones the PC needs. There are go-to spells a spellcaster will prepare, both for a PC and an NPC combatant. There's a good chance of overlap unless the wizard is really playing support (in which case the added spells are ones undesired anyway). I don't see adventuring providing a wealth of desired spells unless the DM is feeling generous, or setting out explicitly to provide new spells. [/QUOTE]

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