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<blockquote data-quote="Squire James" data-source="post: 4122558" data-attributes="member: 548">There were few rules governing how Wizards learned spells.&nbsp; The ONLY way a Wizard could certainly learn a spell is to copy off a scroll or other wizard's spellbook.&nbsp; The Wizard's Intelligence determined the chance to learn a spell and the maximum spells per spell level his spellbook could hold (unlimited if they could break the normal limits and get a 19).How is this bad?&nbsp; It isn't, if the DM is reasonable about including spellbooks and wizard scrolls in his campaign.&nbsp; I've seen campaigns where wizards were easily able to hit their max limit, cherry-picking the spells they wanted.&nbsp; I've also seen campaigns where wizards had 5th level spell slots but no 4th or 5th level spells.&nbsp; It was a hard balance to strike, and from my experience it was pretty easy to give wizards too much power at high levels.&nbsp; After all, every wizard NPC had to have a spellbook somewhere, right?&nbsp; Spells like Explosive Runes and Fire Trap were invented with spellbooks in mind (the former to destroy the book, the latter to just punish the reader).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Squire James, post: 4122558, member: 548"] There were few rules governing how Wizards learned spells. The ONLY way a Wizard could certainly learn a spell is to copy off a scroll or other wizard's spellbook. The Wizard's Intelligence determined the chance to learn a spell and the maximum spells per spell level his spellbook could hold (unlimited if they could break the normal limits and get a 19). How is this bad? It isn't, if the DM is reasonable about including spellbooks and wizard scrolls in his campaign. I've seen campaigns where wizards were easily able to hit their max limit, cherry-picking the spells they wanted. I've also seen campaigns where wizards had 5th level spell slots but no 4th or 5th level spells. It was a hard balance to strike, and from my experience it was pretty easy to give wizards too much power at high levels. After all, every wizard NPC had to have a spellbook somewhere, right? Spells like Explosive Runes and Fire Trap were invented with spellbooks in mind (the former to destroy the book, the latter to just punish the reader). [/QUOTE]

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