Wizard's new spells each level

[Caliban]

I forget the term, maybe spellbook capture?

Anyhoo it lets you turn a captured/aquired spellbook into your own spellbook so you can use spells from it. Its like a DC 25+highest spell level check. Not a nig FR guru so I don't knw the specifics.

It's called "Spellbook Mastery" and took 10 days +1 day per spell in the book. You have the DC correct.

(I think it should be possible to "partially" master a book, and only get the lower level spells if you want. The way it's written, it's an all or nothing check.)

 

[Pax]

I forget the term, maybe spellbook capture?

Anyhoo it lets you turn a captured/aquired spellbook into your own spellbook so you can use spells from it. Its like a DC 25+highest spell level check. Not a nig FR guru so I don't knw the specifics.

That rule is in Magic of Faerun (pages 172-173). It's called "masterign a foreign spellbook" -- it allows you to understand the personal notation, script, etc, of the wizard who wrote the book, well enough to prepare spells from it as if it were your own.

It's a nonmagical process requiring a 10 days, plus 1 day per spell contained in the book; a spellcraft check is made, against a DC of 25 + highest spell level in teh book.

If you succeed, you've figured out the ciphers, notations, and whatnot that are used in that book, and you may then prepare spells from that book, without further spellcraft checks -- for life.

If you fail, you cannot retry until you have gained at least 1 additional rank of spellcraft (which means no taking 20).

Mind you, even Taking 10 isn't a guarantee of success; a spellbook with only 5th and lower level spells would have a DC of 30, meaning you'd have to have a +20 spellcraft to pull it off; even assuming Greater Skill Focus (Spellcraft), you'd probably need to be 7th or 8th level before you could do that (10 or 11 ranks, +4 from the feat, +5 or +1 from Intelligence (respectively)), AND that supposes a darned smart wizard, anyway.

 

[dcollins]

Monte Cook wrote the DMG.

Wishing this wouldn't pour more fuel on the fire, but it's important to realize that there are big swatches of the DMG that Monte did not personally write. The magic items section in particular has the majority of its language copied from AD&D (1st Edition) sources.

For example, Gygax originally wrote the Boccob's Blessed Book description in Unearthed Arcana (p. 97), and the description is basically word-for-word identical, save for some editing deletions.

Of course, the sentence in dispute is exactly the same as how Gygax wrote it in 1985, except that Monte inserted the word "freely" in the middle.

 

[Darklone]

Threads like this are probably one of many reasons why monte stays away from the rules section ?

 

[Storm Raven]

Other wise since you will not consider another view point, I will not comment other than to let others know this is your opinion and nothing else.

My opinion. The opinion of the author of the description. The Sage's opinion. The opinion of the dictionary. Yeah, that's "my opinion and nothing else".

What color is the sky in your world?

 

[Storm Raven]

Well, I'll be. It doesn't. I don't know where I got that idea from, but I've always thought it said that. Oh well. So much for compromise. This'll teach me not to get involved- even when I started the thread. Granted, it's been somewhat hijacked into Boccob's Blasted Battle.

People seem to assume that a one inch thick book has 45 pages in it, especially when a three inch thick book has 100 pages in the D&D world.

 

[Pielorinho]

What color is the sky in your world?

In my world, it's the color of a television, tuned to a dead channel. It used to be kind of a static-y roiling gray and black, but now it's an incandescant blue.

Daniel