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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9886300" data-attributes="member: 7026594">Yes, absolutely. From the explanations in the DMG, for example, it was clearly the intent, meant to ensure different M-Us knew different stuff as opposed to just "the best", and to incentivize finding new ones. Fuindordm is right that this was part and parcel of Vancian magic- the struggle and sub-game of finding new spells. M-Us and their sub-classes functionally have their own whole category of treasure to find and be excited by.Well, and bear in mind that TSR started to limit that power almost immediately. Dropping the unlimited duration and giving it varying duration based on the Intelligence of the victim was the first revision it got, in 1975 Supplement I: Greyhawk.Good catch on the general rule in 3.5 for holding touch spells!  You're incorrect on that last part (I quoted the durations of each, "until discharged" from 3.0 and "instantaneous" from 3.5, both verbatim), but they do work the same despite that wording change, because of the general rule.I would contend that Expert clarified the intent and made it more explicit. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The procedure in 1E is really arcane and not clearly explained. See PH p10.If I read/recall correctly basically each time you get access to a new spell level (including 1st level), you go through that entire spell level in any order you choose, and check whether you can potentially learn each given spell (except Read Magic, which all M-Us automatically start out knowing, and your other three randomly-generated spells in your beginning spell book). Once you hit your Max Spells Known based on your Int score, you stop.  If you fail too many rolls and don't meet your Minimum Spells Known then you can re-try failed ones until you hit your minimum, again in whatever order you choose.However there's also some implication that you don't actually check for a given spell until you encounter its formula (on a scroll or in a spell book) in play, so the exact timing is a little ambiguous and the DM needs to figure out how they want to run it.</blockquote>

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