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<blockquote data-quote="R_Chance" data-source="post: 7785123" data-attributes="member: 55149"><p>It could be. Notice that you can't just copy a spell from someone's spell book straight into yours. You have to &quot;personalize&quot; it. In 5E it costs you 2 hours and 50 GP per level of the spell to decipher / translate it and write it into your own book. I guess it could be &quot;bad hand writing&quot; on their part <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> or it could simply be differences based on &quot;you&quot;, not being the same as &quot;them&quot;. The 5E PHB (page 114) talks about having to decipher the &quot;unique notations&quot; of the other mage. That could be one of the laws of magic, but that makes it pretty uncertain. There used to be a chance of failure in previous editions when you did this and no one volunteered their own spell books because they could be damaged iirc. And scrolls were erased in the process. Scrolls on the other hand when used &quot;just work&quot;... presumably because the scroll contains the personalized elements of the writer. Interesting. For me, this is what makes magic an &quot;art&quot; rather than a &quot;science&quot;. As always ymmv.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="R_Chance, post: 7785123, member: 55149"] It could be. Notice that you can't just copy a spell from someone's spell book straight into yours. You have to "personalize" it. In 5E it costs you 2 hours and 50 GP per level of the spell to decipher / translate it and write it into your own book. I guess it could be "bad hand writing" on their part :D or it could simply be differences based on "you", not being the same as "them". The 5E PHB (page 114) talks about having to decipher the "unique notations" of the other mage. That could be one of the laws of magic, but that makes it pretty uncertain. There used to be a chance of failure in previous editions when you did this and no one volunteered their own spell books because they could be damaged iirc. And scrolls were erased in the process. Scrolls on the other hand when used "just work"... presumably because the scroll contains the personalized elements of the writer. Interesting. For me, this is what makes magic an "art" rather than a "science". As always ymmv. [/QUOTE]

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