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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 6153636" data-attributes="member: 1165">Trust.Friends (eg fellow party members, a mentor and student, spouses, and some other such relationships) may trust each other enough to do so. I can certainly picture daddy wizard lending his daughter wizard his spellbook, as it can give her an advantage in school, business and even combat.Giving up a spellbook for even a day is also risky. Much riskier than giving up a sword for a day, because you could have easily bought a backup sword beforehand.A wizard could backup their spellbook and lend a copy, but said copy is still valuable, because it took a lot of effort to create that backup. WIzards would probably routinely have an adventuring/traveling and a base spellbook, with the base spellbook left somewhere safe. They might be willing to lend their traveling spellbook, but only if they can get back to their base spellbook within a day.I don't know if you could learn spells from scrolls in 1e, but I suspect you could. Also, again, if you have any sort of wizardry schools, it would be easy for students to get their hands on spells available at the school as part of the tuition.I wonder if we should compare spells to textbooks. Textbooks are knowledge, and usually aren't free. In fact, they're expensive. You're probably willing to lend your textbook to a friend at school, but not a total stranger.</blockquote>