Spell Mastery Feat

[jhanzur]

Ok, I'm probably missing something very obvious here but I'm tired, so please help me out!

Here is the feat as written:

"Spell Mastery: A wizard (and only a wizard) can take the special feat Spell Mastery. Each time the wizard takes this feat, choose a number of spells equal to the wizard's Intelligence modifier (they must be spells that the wizard already knows). From that point on, the wizard can prepare these spells without referring to a spellbook."

I have two questions that seem to fall into gray areas in the rules, IMO.

#1. If I previously lost my spellbook (assume I haven't had the option to replace it yet), can I pick a spell from what spells I know from that book as one of the spells for Spell Mastery?

While I no longer have access to my spellbook, nothing about the description in Spell Mastery says I still need to have access to it in order to make it one of my Mastered spells. The last sentence might hint towards that, but it’s circumstantial.

#2. If I study a spell from another wizard’s spellbook and successfully learn it, do I have to first copy that spell into my own spellbook before taking it as one of the spells in Spell Mastery?

With this one, there would seem to be a small amount of time between sitting down and learning someone else’s spell from their spellbook and applying my new Feat. Would this be logical? I’m sure there is something in the PHB that says you have to apply the Feat immediately, but what if I learned the spell from the other spellbook and just never copied it down, keeping it in memory until I leveled up?

 

[andargor]

#1 is a toughie. You did know the spell and it was in your spellbook, so I guess it's ok.

#2 you need to copy the spell in your spellbook first, as per PHB p155.

EDIT: Er, yes, you have to apply the Feat immediately, for all spells you want Mastered. So this would have to be done before levelling up.

Andargor

 

[jhanzur]

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#2 you need to copy the spell in your spellbook first, as per PHB p155.

Andargor [/B]

But according to the Feat itself, all I need is to already know the spell. If I learn it from another's spellbook, I know the spell. I can keep that spell in memory until I level up and take the Feat.

 

[andargor]

Don't forget that you can't memorize a spell from a foreign spellbook until you write it down in your own (again PHB p155)

Andargor

 

[jhanzur]

Don't forget that you can't memorize a spell from a foreign spellbook until you write it down in your own (again PHB p155)

Andargor

AHAH! Thank you Andargor.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

T&B has info on how you can make yourself familiar with another arcanist's notation and use her spellbooks (it's a spellcraft check DC 20 + hightest level in book, AFAIK)

 

[drnuncheon]

T&B has info on how you can make yourself familiar with another arcanist's notation and use her spellbooks (it's a spellcraft check DC 20 + hightest level in book, AFAIK)

Magic of Faerun, actually - unless they put it in T&B as well, but I don't remember seeing it there.

It also takes up a significant amount of time - I think it's a tenday plus 1 day per spell level.

I apply bonuses to the spellcraft roll if the bookc ontains spells that you have in your own, reasoning that they work much like an arcane Rosetta stone', and I also don't count them in the time factor.

J

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Sorry, of course it is Magic of Faerûn. And it's 25 + highest spell level for the spellcraft check. But it takes a tenday + 1 per spell within, not per spell level.