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<blockquote data-quote="Lackhand" data-source="post: 6153693" data-attributes="member: 36160">I'm not swayed by the psychological reasons not to share spells, because even if that applied on a personal level, I believe cabals of mages would still pool resources -- and all the arguments against sharing spell books apply even more strongly to taking on apprentices!I've been toying with introducing more metaphysics to it: when you learn a spell, you learn it from a source.You learn the spell exactly as the rules text have it, but the source version becomes automatically and retroactively Heightened; it requires a higher level slot to cast. This effect fades with time, but a much copied spell can eventually stick at it's new place, so wizards are careful not to fritter away their power and take on only a small number of apprentices at a time.Trying to shield oneself from the source doesn't work well: the first person to copy a spell out of a dead wizards's spell book counts as the author of both copies, for purposes of these rules.The only way to get Teaching Copies of spell books is to craft them as magic items, or capture and keep multiple tutelary archmagi, who are probably not happy about the form of tenure imposed <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lackhand, post: 6153693, member: 36160"] I'm not swayed by the psychological reasons not to share spells, because even if that applied on a personal level, I believe cabals of mages would still pool resources -- and all the arguments against sharing spell books apply even more strongly to taking on apprentices! I've been toying with introducing more metaphysics to it: when you learn a spell, you learn it from a source. You learn the spell exactly as the rules text have it, but the source version becomes automatically and retroactively Heightened; it requires a higher level slot to cast. This effect fades with time, but a much copied spell can eventually stick at it's new place, so wizards are careful not to fritter away their power and take on only a small number of apprentices at a time. Trying to shield oneself from the source doesn't work well: the first person to copy a spell out of a dead wizards's spell book counts as the author of both copies, for purposes of these rules. The only way to get Teaching Copies of spell books is to craft them as magic items, or capture and keep multiple tutelary archmagi, who are probably not happy about the form of tenure imposed :-) [/QUOTE]

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