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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 6834209" data-attributes="member: 6775031">Divine casters had access to their entire spell list in AD&D, as well. It was necessary, or else there would be no way to un-do the myriad horrible effects that could befall the party, and those spells made for decent punishment to keep a priest in line with its ideals ("I pray for firestorm!" "You get remove disease.")In 3E, scrolls had a cost and availability, so a wizard could always learn as many spells as they could afford. In AD&D and 5E, it's theoretically up to the DM as to which spells will show up, but the wizard can always keep looking for spells, and eventually they'd either succeed or die. Without sorcerers or warlocks in AD&D, that meant there were relatively more wizards, and a defeated wizard (usually) meant a captured spellbook. Availability is only a barrier if the DM wants it to be one.More relevant to my personal interests, but did you find any rules in 5E about how much space a spell takes up in your spellbook? Or how many pages are in a typical spellbook? Because it seems likely that the party will slay a lich in tomorrow's game, and there's zero chance that a 2000+ year-old wizard would not know literally every spell in the book.</blockquote>