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<blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 3396959" data-attributes="member: 3649">Yes it is indeed theft, especially if it's a unique or variant spell the other wizard researched. He put the time, money, and considerable risk into creating this thing and you've bypassed all that effort, (virtually all of the) expense and risk without compensating him at fair value. This is why most wizards protect spell books with deadly spells. At the very, very best the character is a snivelling coward who should be sick and ashamed to call himself a man.If it's a common spell (say, Magic Missle), then you've still done a dishonest and wrong thing, just as if you copied someone's diary. Your character has still violated their personal property without permission. He can create all sorts of fanciful scenarios in his head about how it's not an inherently bad or wrong thing to do, but he's still either fooling himself - in which case he truly is a fool as well as being a thief - or he's trying to cover up something he knows is wrong with words - in which case he's still a thief and a liar.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WayneLigon, post: 3396959, member: 3649"] Yes it is indeed theft, especially if it's a unique or variant spell the other wizard researched. He put the time, money, and considerable risk into creating this thing and you've bypassed all that effort, (virtually all of the) expense and risk without compensating him at fair value. This is why most wizards protect spell books with deadly spells. At the very, very best the character is a snivelling coward who should be sick and ashamed to call himself a man. If it's a common spell (say, [I]Magic Missle[/I]), then you've still done a dishonest and wrong thing, just as if you copied someone's diary. Your character has still violated their personal property without permission. He can create all sorts of fanciful scenarios in his head about how it's not an inherently bad or wrong thing to do, but he's still either fooling himself - in which case he truly is a fool as well as being a thief - or he's trying to cover up something he knows is wrong with words - in which case he's still a thief [I]and [/I] a liar. [/QUOTE]

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