Wizard Death and Spellbooks

[Dinkeldog]

When you die, you get reduced to the halfway point between levels. I disagree that a wizard should be able to get 2 free spells for advancing half a level when he still only gets 2 free spells from advancing a full level normally.

You seem to assume that a wizard always dies right after he's made a new level. In actuality, he's got an equal chance of being anywhere within the range 0-99% of the next level, with an average of 50%. Since he goes down to 50% below the previous level, he is in fact losing a full level's worth of experience on average.

Now, if you want to do the bookkeeping and say that the wizard will receive 2 spells * (amount above level when dying) so that a wizard won't end up ultrapowerful by having one extra spell in their book, then you can. I don't want to, which means 50% of the time I'm a mean awful rat bastard GM. I can live with that.

 

[Swami]

NPC Spell books

This is just an example of how wrong it seems to me if you take away the 2 spells from the wizard.

NPC wizard killed by party...

They get his spell books...

The party Wizard takes the spell books and has looked through them to know what spells they contain.

NPC Wizard gets raised/wished/resurrected back somehow... (exact method is unimportant.)

The NPC loses 2 spells from his spell book?(Which is held by the PC wizard.)

Sounds kind of wrong.

This would be a great method of finding out information which you shouldn't get. When he looks over the acquired spell book. "Hey guys, that wizard we killed a while ago who was planning to do "nasty x" to the world is back!"

Broken imho.

Swami

 

[Hypersmurf]

Re: NPC Spell books

The NPC loses 2 spells from his spell book?(Which is held by the PC wizard.)

But the PC wizard has to spend money and time to scribe the spells into his book (or use the FRCS assimilation thing... I don't have FRCS, sorry) before he can make use of those spells, since he's not 'attuned' to those spells in that spellbook.

If the raised NPC is no longer 'attuned' to those two spells, there's a penalty without need for the whole disappearing-ink trick.

-Hyp.