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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 1897012" data-attributes="member: 20323">Has anyone created an option for spellbooks functioning as familiars? Instead of his familiar (or staff familiar if using variant rules), a wizard could choose to have a spellbook familiar -- we'll call it a True Grimoire to distinguish it.What sort of powers would such a book be able to gain? I'd like to make a power-list-now-choose with more powerful options becoming available as a wizard levels. Here are some power ideas I've been brainstorming...*Contains stolen knowledge from mentor (i.e. a spell of a level higher than wizard can cast...wizard may attempt to cast this spell, but risks fatigue or attracting mentor's ire)*Booby-trapped*Magically hold more spells than size would allow*Has secret contents even owner is unaware of*"Eating" scrolls or even other spellbooks!*Disguise itself as a common book in a library*Teleport via libraries (if the library is owned by enemy of wizard or is unfamiliar, a check is required...maybe some portion of the spellbook -- a spell or two -- could infiltrate the enemy wizard's library...of course it's up to the captured PCs to talk the guards into daring to bring the spell to them...heheh)*Allow the wizard to gain 3 or 4 spells per level instead of 2*Be attuned to a specialist's school of magic, enhancing all spells from that school as if +1 caster level*Improved effects with costly writing instruments appropriate to spell being scribed (i.e. medusa/basilisk blood for a flesh to stone spell might cast at +1 caster level)</blockquote>

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