Partial literacy in Sorceror's Tounge

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Originally Posted by David Bofinger

I'm not sure what you mean, but if you're asking, "Have you ever had a wizard character who accumulated enough wealth to buy and attune a wizard's chest and buy a book of spells," then yes. Not often, but at least once. It's quite nice to have, and easy enough to spend about $8,000 on it, but like so many capabilities in TFT it would be a lot nicer if you could generate the character that way because then you wouldn't need to waste memory on essential out-of-combat spells like Light. Where are you going with this?

My questions have nothing to do with all the other applications of magical tomes. I really like the flavor they add to the game.

My stance is simply that casting spells from a book is not only impractical, it is also an unnecessary mechanic IMO. Are you really going to spend 60 turns to cast LIGHT? We never saw any PC take that action in play and although I'm sure that's not universal, scrolls get the job done much more efficiently and economically.

I mean, we are talking about house-rules here, right? Eliminating this particular rule seems perfectly reasonable to me.