Wizards Gaining Two Spells When Gaining a Level - How do you do it?

[Seeten]

And less work, too

 

[MerakSpielman]

Whatever keeps the game running smoothly.

 

[Lord Pendragon]

A chime sounds, pretty sparkly lights flash, and the wizard instantly has 2 new spells in his spellbook, plus a greater number of spell slots, more skill points, more hit points, and potentially more feats and greater ability stats.

And then the PC says, "Ding!" and everyone else replies "Congrats!"

 

[Seeten]

Thats definitely me when playing WoW. I am a proud owner of a horse now, too!

 

[Bad Paper]

a wizard's spellbook is his journal/doodlebook

Something that the wizard has been working on and so when a level is gained, the work all comes together at that moment and thus they can be learned?

This is how we do it. Every day the wizard is just kinda doodling in his book like a journal, working things out. Upon leveling up, his doodles come together as a couple of spells.

 

[ARandomGod]

The wizard has been thinking about and doing research during his downtime, while sleeping in dreams, in the morning while the other chumps... er... party members are breaking camp, while riding or walking to a new area... that one time when the sun hit the medusa's eyes just right and he wrote a poem about it later that seemed to fit in this new spell idea well... etcetera.

How I handle it is the player picks two spells. If they're in core, they're automatically approved. (actually, I change some of those even), and he hands the spell choices to me, and I tell him if he can learn those or has to pick new ones.

I also rule that these spells are completely researched spells, even if they're core spells. Meaning that they don't HAVE to be core. He can come up with anything... and I'll look at it, tweak it so that I think it's within appropriate power levels and works well with my vision of the game, I return to him an altered approved spell... and he either likes that or askes for it to be altered slightly differently if he thought a point I removed was important and he'd prefer some different version.

And he don't have to pay to write it in his spellbook either. He spontaniously generates the expensive inks needed. I'm not sure how, but I am sure I couldn't write it down.

 

[Lord Pendragon]

And he don't have to pay to write it in his spellbook either. He spontaniously generates the expensive inks needed. I'm not sure how, but I am sure I couldn't write it down.

HA.

Thats definitely me when playing WoW. I am a proud owner of a horse now, too!

City of Heroes man myself.

 

[Thanee]

He spontaniously generates the expensive inks needed.

It's not the ink, it's the taxes and royalties (for the named spells) which cost so much.

Ink only costs 8 gp per oz.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Staffan]

A chime sounds, pretty sparkly lights flash, and the wizard instantly has 2 new spells in his spellbook, plus a greater number of spell slots, more skill points, more hit points, and potentially more feats and greater ability stats.

http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscript?SK=12

 

[Herremann the Wise]

http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscript?SK=12

Oh by the way, I most likely should have notified everyone in the initial post that we do it the slightly harsher way. Your character knows the two new spells but you have to scribe them into your spellbook before you can use them. I was just wondering if people made it easier (or in one case up there more difficult).

Best Regards
Herremann the Wise