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<blockquote data-quote="Grogg of the North" data-source="post: 6138291" data-attributes="member: 6682960">I was in that situation once.&nbsp; We got captured by orcs and managed to check every room in their cave EXCEPT the one with all our gear in it.&nbsp; (We also lost the important magical sword we were supposed to be guarding. <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=";)" /> )&nbsp; However, I feel that in a lot of games there is a sort of gentleman's agreement between players and DMs that you won't destroy the wizard's spell book.&nbsp; In complete arcane there are rules for mastering a foreign spell book.&nbsp; So if you lose your book and manage to acquire a new one (theft, murder, purchase) you can make a check to master the book as your own.I'm not sure if it's a real rule, but I've always played it where if the writer of a scroll or spellbook was there, they could help you decipher it and you would automatically succeed on the check.&nbsp; Otherwise you could rely on Arcane Mastery or start off by scribing the spells you have already prepared and are still in your memory.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Grogg of the North, post: 6138291, member: 6682960"] I was in that situation once. We got captured by orcs and managed to check every room in their cave EXCEPT the one with all our gear in it. (We also lost the important magical sword we were supposed to be guarding. ;) ) However, I feel that in a lot of games there is a sort of gentleman's agreement between players and DMs that you won't destroy the wizard's spell book. In complete arcane there are rules for mastering a foreign spell book. So if you lose your book and manage to acquire a new one (theft, murder, purchase) you can make a check to master the book as your own. I'm not sure if it's a real rule, but I've always played it where if the writer of a scroll or spellbook was there, they could help you decipher it and you would automatically succeed on the check. Otherwise you could rely on Arcane Mastery or start off by scribing the spells you have already prepared and are still in your memory. [/QUOTE]

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