tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664355878657420803.post1097277279279728246..comments2024-03-26T03:05:58.787-05:00Comments on Dragons Gonna Drag: Holmes Basic D&D Rulebook Part 6 - I'm Picturing a Wizard With a Bandolier Full of ScrollsJustin Stewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05885816572933013245noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664355878657420803.post-82060610535470419952016-06-01T11:42:58.369-05:002016-06-01T11:42:58.369-05:00See, this is the kind of thing I like. The quest f...See, this is the kind of thing I like. The quest for more spells and additional power seems like the kind of behavior that should be encouraged in your players who run Magic-Users. It makes for easy plot hooks. "You hear a rumor that a spellbook containing the fabled Fireball spell" can be all the motivation a young go-getter needs for dungeon delving, right?Justin Stewarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05885816572933013245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664355878657420803.post-53433992609921825922016-06-01T11:38:39.606-05:002016-06-01T11:38:39.606-05:00So far, this is basically how I'm interpreting...So far, this is basically how I'm interpreting it, too. I like the flavor you added, though.Justin Stewarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05885816572933013245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664355878657420803.post-7210978249203628662016-06-01T11:22:58.428-05:002016-06-01T11:22:58.428-05:00If I am recalling correctly (and it has been a lon...If I am recalling correctly (and it has been a long, long time), we used to use the "% to know spell" roll every time you found a spell... So if you found a Magic Missile spell in a spellbook, you had a chance to learn it. But maybe that particular iteration was not grok-able, and you kept searching... Maybe the next formulation would be accessible to you.<br /><br />But once you knew it, you knew it.<br /><br />We may have started that method after people decided to play Wizards, but couldn't score any useful (or fun) spells in their initial rolls. It wasn't that you could never get a Magic Missile spell; you now had to go search for a Magic Missile spell.bygrinstowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02935507280015810333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664355878657420803.post-56222715304749212812016-06-01T08:39:54.240-05:002016-06-01T08:39:54.240-05:00My interpretation, and I may be completely wrong a...My interpretation, and I may be completely wrong about this, is that the magic-user tries to understand and copy spells into his "book of second-level spells" (or third, or fourth, etc.) as soon as he gains the power to cast spells of that level. If he can't get his head around a particular spell, he will never get it.<br /><br />Now the rules say nothing about where he copies those spells from ... but I read between the lines, here.<br /><br />1st level magic-users are "apprentices" (prentices, even!), so it stands to reason they copy their 1st level spells from their master's library.<br /><br />After that, they're on their own. Maybe your game world has magical libraries where newly-levelled-up magic-users go to bone up on shiny new spells, or maybe they take all those looted magic books that they couldn't understand before down off their own bookshelf. I like the latter approach.Vile Travellerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11431855585620506995noreply@blogger.com