tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5373792969086619654.post7638867941186633980..comments2024-02-28T05:14:52.166-04:00Comments on A Hamsterish Hoard of Dungeons and Dragons: Spellbook musings: part the third.taicharahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02213053468697534564noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5373792969086619654.post-68115108147871795552009-03-28T20:35:00.000-03:002009-03-28T20:35:00.000-03:00@trollsmyth:Aah. If there's not much chance for a...@trollsmyth:<BR/><BR/>Aah. If there's not much chance for a backup book, having no risk of additional spells lost makes good sense. No reason to penalize a PC too badly when they were likely already in dire straits (to cast a spell straight from the spellbook).<BR/><BR/>I like the idea of farming out scribal work, too ;3<BR/><BR/><BR/>@Chgowiz:<BR/><BR/>Tailoring price up or down by campaign taicharahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02213053468697534564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5373792969086619654.post-60280132430699268842009-03-28T17:39:00.000-03:002009-03-28T17:39:00.000-03:00I figure losing the spell out of the book is harsh...<I>I figure losing the spell out of the book is harsh enough.</I><BR/><BR/>I should also add that finding a safe place to store back-up books is a challenge for my magic-users, so it's not uncommon for the book the PC takes on the adventure to be the PC's only book.trollsmythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01895349218958093151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5373792969086619654.post-55882950018612198832009-03-28T17:37:00.000-03:002009-03-28T17:37:00.000-03:00I generally only require an hour per level of scri...I generally only require an hour per level of scribing, but each scribe can only work ten hours at most in a day. Magic-users in my campaigns have a history of farming out this work, either to apprentices or magical scriptoriums, depending on how widespread magical use is in the world. <BR/><BR/>In my current campaign, that's going to be a lot harder to do, so I may wave just handwave it to a trollsmythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01895349218958093151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5373792969086619654.post-47714002644037965382009-03-28T15:47:00.000-03:002009-03-28T15:47:00.000-03:00I like this! I've used a similar approach when cre...I like this! I've used a similar approach when creating scrolls, but haven't thought about how to do that for mages.<BR/><BR/>Because spell books and scrolls are rare, I'd be less likely to make it 100gp per level - I might have a sliding scale or maybe 20 or 50gp per level. That's almost like charging a fighter to use a sword he/she just found. Making them take time is another resource burner - Michael S/Chgowizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052820400496340137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5373792969086619654.post-39813050210757134792009-03-28T13:34:00.000-03:002009-03-28T13:34:00.000-03:00Do you use a risk of other spells also being "used...<I>Do you use a risk of other spells also being "used up" when a spellbook spell is used as a scroll?</I><BR/><BR/>I don't. I figure losing the spell out of the book is harsh enough.trollsmythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01895349218958093151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5373792969086619654.post-41726291090963295782009-03-28T12:47:00.000-03:002009-03-28T12:47:00.000-03:00Since I generally allow magic-users to cast spells...<I>Since I generally allow magic-users to cast spells from their spellbook as if the pages were scrolls, it only makes sense that the pages need to be infused with the magic of the spell itself.</I><BR/><BR/>That too. I haven't decided if I use that variant in BEMCI yet -- but knowing me, I probably will.<BR/><BR/><I> And that means extra safeguards on the book, lest the magic bound into the taicharahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02213053468697534564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5373792969086619654.post-91868092962446641532009-03-28T12:43:00.000-03:002009-03-28T12:43:00.000-03:00Since I generally allow magic-users to cast spells...Since I generally allow magic-users to cast spells from their spellbook as if the pages were scrolls, it only makes sense that the pages need to be infused with the magic of the spell itself. And that means extra safeguards on the book, lest the magic bound into the tome begin to leak out. <BR/><BR/>(Word verification: mononont!)trollsmythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01895349218958093151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5373792969086619654.post-69795886973973378182009-03-28T12:20:00.000-03:002009-03-28T12:20:00.000-03:00@Jeff Rients:Great stuff in the last two posts! On...@Jeff Rients:<BR/><BR/><I>Great stuff in the last two posts! One question: what's the danger inherent in "rampant scribing" such that it should be more expensive to transcribe a spell than another document of equal length?</I><BR/><BR/>Aah! Bad phrasing on my part, I think; by "rampant scribing" I mean the extant BEMCI rules that essentially just say "and you wrote the spell down" with no cost taicharahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02213053468697534564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5373792969086619654.post-67713952931299187092009-03-28T12:09:00.000-03:002009-03-28T12:09:00.000-03:00Great stuff in the last two posts! One question: ...Great stuff in the last two posts! One question: what's the danger inherent in "rampant scribing" such that it should be more expensive to transcribe a spell than another document of equal length?Jeff Rientshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17493878980535235896noreply@blogger.com