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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sigurd" data-source="post: 3401869" data-attributes="member: 19412">This has really devolved from the game world.Getting back to the D&D setting. I think copying a spell without permission is more like breaking and entering for the wizard who has been rifled. Magic books are very personal and the unspoken rule is that much of magic is individualized. To copy a spell the interloper would have to have made his spellcraft check against the wizard's spellbook and now knows more about the rifled wizard than is convenient. Presumably this might manifest as counterspelling bonuses and even (I would argue) a chance to interfere on summoning spells. If individual creatures have individual, or true, names it might be a tremendous advantage to the interloping wizard. Another possible advantage might be that the interloper would know the necessary spell components the orig wizard requires and might defeat the spell by robbing the orig wizard.The copying is not theft but it is a tremendous intrusion into what should be a very personal spellbook. The original wizard has no way of knowing if his book has not been altered or cursed or compromised in some other way. If there was damage dessecration or modification to the book then that is a separate issue.If the book was used but not taken - it was not theft.</blockquote>