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<blockquote data-quote="Lackhand" data-source="post: 6153741" data-attributes="member: 36160">Just calling these out, since I think this might be the (fine) difference between how you and I see things.Loaning a car out has a cost, you lose the use of the car during the loan and any damage done to it is permanent. Performing the loan means letting the car out of your control.The rules are not definitive here, but do not imply that teaching a spell is anything like that. It's true that it takes the copier time and money, but on the teachers part, they can control the access to the spell book pretty strictly. The risks of something bad happening to the spell book accidentally are pretty low if the copying has to happen in the teacher's lab or a neutral third party space. The biggest cost here to the teacher are opportunity costs in time they spend watching the learner and the risk of malfeasance.Note that my proposed fix (taught spells go up in level for the teacher) is much closer to the &quot;loaning a car&quot; metaphor, since they deny the teacher the full use of the spell for a period of time.I don't even disagree with the way I'd act in your metaphor, just how closely it maps onto the spell book case <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: 6153741, member: 36160"] Just calling these out, since I think this might be the (fine) difference between how you and I see things. Loaning a car out has a cost, you lose the use of the car during the loan and any damage done to it is permanent. Performing the loan means letting the car out of your control. The rules are not definitive here, but do not imply that teaching a spell is anything like that. It's true that it takes the copier time and money, but on the teachers part, they can control the access to the spell book pretty strictly. The risks of something bad happening to the spell book accidentally are pretty low if the copying has to happen in the teacher's lab or a neutral third party space. The biggest cost here to the teacher are opportunity costs in time they spend watching the learner and the risk of malfeasance. Note that my proposed fix (taught spells go up in level for the teacher) is much closer to the "loaning a car" metaphor, since they deny the teacher the full use of the spell for a period of time. I don't even disagree with the way I'd act in your metaphor, just how closely it maps onto the spell book case :-) [/QUOTE]

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