wizards

[Ferret]

I've never gotten to grips with the wizards spells really. But this helps

 

[Jdvn1]

Not as such, but Wizard off the Coast, the publisher of spellbooks everywhere, not being a coingrabber like those evil Wizards of the Coast (who blatantly stole his name), regularly sends out revision updates magically to all his customers (which is all wizards).

Nah, they just change history. Since that makes much more sense. "No, it's been like this the whole time... really... you must be thinking of some other game..."

I guess you could consider 0th level spells as more basic uses of magic, so 0th level magical energy is easily changeable into other cantrips... so you don't have to add new cantrips to your book, you just use the energy in a different way.

 

[sukael]

I'd say that they're minor enough to essentially be researched at no cost--thus, the wizard encounters a new one and only has to spend an hour or two to decipher it, learn how to use it, and copy it into his spellbook. And, because the effects are so minor, it doesn't take all the special materials and such to record it that normal spells do.

 

[Jdvn1]

I'd say that they're minor enough to essentially be researched at no cost--thus, the wizard encounters a new one and only has to spend an hour or two to decipher it, learn how to use it, and copy it into his spellbook. And, because the effects are so minor, it doesn't take all the special materials and such to record it that normal spells do.

So you're not in the "Wizards automatically get all cantrips" mode of thought? He has to encounter it, decipher it, and copy it? I'm not sure RAW agrees with that, but it seems like a gray area anyway.

 

[sukael]

It does take a bit of effort--but it's free, it's only for the ones they don't already know, and it still makes sense in game (as opposed to "cantrips magically appear in spellbook").

 

[Staffan]

So you're not in the "Wizards automatically get all cantrips" mode of thought? He has to encounter it, decipher it, and copy it? I'm not sure RAW agrees with that, but it seems like a gray area anyway.

I'm even more restrictive. I give wizards all "common" cantrips (mainly, the ones from the PHB, but it could depend on setting) that aren't from opposition schools, and others have to be found and scribed the same way any other spell. The way I see it, if you automatically got every cantrip ever, there wouldn't be any need to mention anything about 0-level spells in the rules about magical writings.