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09-20-2020, 09:24 AM | #1 |
Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: Dallas, TX
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How common are spellbooks?
In all versions of D&D, a Wizard needs to study a spellbook every day in order to re-learn his spells for the next day. Therefore, its a necessity for adventuring wizards to carry the things around.
In DFRPG, there is no such requirement. It seems to me that it should therefore be a far rarer item in the world. So if I am converting a D&D adventure, and you kill a bad guy who is a spellcaster, I'm wondering if I should remove or limit some of the spellbook treasure. It makes sense in the D&D module why the now dead spellcaster had the book, for he needed it to re-learn his spells for the next day. In this system, why would an arcane caster be carting around a book of spells he already knows? |
09-20-2020, 09:45 AM | #2 |
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Re: How common are spellbooks?
This is a problem. To solve that, I have constructed a perk:
Grimoire Spell By studying a spell in the spellbook, you get a +2 bonus to cast it for the following 12 hours. It takes 10 minutes to study a spell in a spellbook. You must specialize by spell - one perk per spell. The reason the perk gives +2 and not +1 is that most spellcasters only put one point per spell, meaning that an additional point would give a permanent +1 bonus.To further limit it, you may want to say that you can't have more perks than the number of points you put in Thaumatology. Wizards only.
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09-20-2020, 09:56 AM | #3 |
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Re: How common are spellbooks?
That's a good idea.
I could also see making the spell book a partial requirement for wizards. Sometime like, "If you haven't refreshed the knowledge of a given spell in the past week, you are at -2 effective spell level." or something like that. |
09-20-2020, 10:38 AM | #4 |
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Re: How common are spellbooks?
Anyway, I Smell A Rat contains two spellbooks, I think, so Kromm doesn't they are all rare.
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09-20-2020, 11:28 AM | #5 | |
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09-21-2020, 02:48 PM | #6 | |
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