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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 3397238" data-attributes="member: 2067">&quot;Theft&quot; is the wrong term, though, and its negatively loaded to boot. The distinction is not trivial, and is, in fact, very controversial. So for the sake of clarity and neutrality, it should be replaced. Especially because it's inaccurate on so many levels. The use of the term is disingenuous, so it should be avoided wherever possible, regardless of what everyone else does. I mean, I'm sure your mom used the whole &quot;if everyone jumped off a bridge, would you do it, too?&quot; argument. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Spellthieves steal spells. Copying spellbooks isn't stealing spells. And, it would seem, in most D&amp;D campaigns, copying spellbooks is relatively common (enough so that every spell in the PHB is equally available, anyway). Though I wonder what wizards who have spent their lives researching new spells would say about someone coming along and taking a peek in their magical tome...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 3397238, member: 2067"] "Theft" is the wrong term, though, and its negatively loaded to boot. The distinction is not trivial, and is, in fact, very controversial. So for the sake of clarity and neutrality, it should be replaced. Especially because it's inaccurate on so many levels. The use of the term is disingenuous, so it should be avoided wherever possible, regardless of what everyone else does. I mean, I'm sure your mom used the whole "if everyone jumped off a bridge, would you do it, too?" argument. ;) Spellthieves steal spells. Copying spellbooks isn't stealing spells. And, it would seem, in most D&D campaigns, copying spellbooks is relatively common (enough so that every spell in the PHB is equally available, anyway). Though I wonder what wizards who have spent their lives researching new spells would say about someone coming along and taking a peek in their magical tome... [/QUOTE]

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