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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 6679839" data-attributes="member: 58197">From the ranger rules:&quot;The Spells Known column of the Ranger table shows when you learn more ranger spells of your choice. Each of those spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. For instance, when you reach 5th level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level.&quot;This is essentially the same wording as for spell preparation. If all your multiclass spell slots counted, then a ranger 4/wizard 3 would be able to learn 2nd-level ranger spells. But the example given specifically states that a ranger 4/wizard 3 only has 1st-level ranger spells and does not know any 2nd-level ones.The example makes it very clear how this is supposed to work. For each of your classes, you determine what spells you know and can prepare as a single-classed caster of that class. That means you base it on the spell slots of a single-classed caster of that class and level, not your combined multi-class slots. This was <a href="http://www.sageadvice.eu/tag/multiclass/page/3/" target="_blank">confirmed by Jeremy Crawford in Sage Advice</a>. A wizard 2/cleric 18 cannot learn fireball, even by finding it on a scroll during an adventure, because a wizard 2 can't cast 3rd-level spells.Given the Sage Advice ruling, I'd second CapnZapp's request for an update to the second post in the thread. No need to confuse the newbies.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 6679839, member: 58197"] From the ranger rules: "The Spells Known column of the Ranger table shows when you learn more ranger spells of your choice. Each of those spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. For instance, when you reach 5th level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level." This is essentially the same wording as for spell preparation. If all your multiclass spell slots counted, then a ranger 4/wizard 3 would be able to learn 2nd-level ranger spells. But the example given specifically states that a ranger 4/wizard 3 only has 1st-level ranger spells and does not know any 2nd-level ones. The example makes it very clear how this is supposed to work. For each of your classes, you determine what spells you know and can prepare as a single-classed caster of that class. That means you base it on the spell slots of a single-classed caster of that class and level, not your combined multi-class slots. This was [URL="http://www.sageadvice.eu/tag/multiclass/page/3/"]confirmed by Jeremy Crawford in Sage Advice[/URL]. A wizard 2/cleric 18 cannot learn [i]fireball[/i], even by finding it on a scroll during an adventure, because a wizard 2 can't cast 3rd-level spells. Given the Sage Advice ruling, I'd second CapnZapp's request for an update to the second post in the thread. No need to confuse the newbies. [/QUOTE]

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