![]() The wizard’s turn comes up and they activate their spell book. This time the wizard knows there is no escape and capture is unlikely, but they’re not going down without a fight. The whole party is down except the wizard and they’re unlikely to survive. Let’s go back to our example from earlier. But in the case of a spell book that a wizard has made themselves, you could argue they understand precisely how each spell is constructed. Now we’ve come to the absolute limit here of stretching the rules: if the spell book itself is a magical item, what’s to stop a wizard from activating the whole thing at once?Ĭlearly this is not really keeping in line with the rules, as a spell scroll is read or activated through understanding. Stretching Things a Bit Further: The Spell Grenade Spell scrolls that are copied into a spell book are destroyed anyway, so a player would have trouble duplicating or amassing a high number of extra spell casts anyway. The spells are hard to find, there is a clear cost associated with their acquisition and a fairly steep price associated with their use. What’s great about this as a homebrew rule is that it is self-balancing. If the wizard has copied a spell into their spell book that is over their casting level, they have to use a spellcasting ability check to see if they can use it as a spell scroll. So essentially every wizard is walking around with a stack of spell scrolls they can use at will. The core premise of this homebrew rule assumes that there are no differences between a spell in a spell book and a spell scroll. But the party will live to fight another day because the wizard decided to make a sacrifice from their precious spell book. The wizard loses that page and the information and they’ll have to relearn it or transcribe it again. So what do they do? They rip a page out of their spell book and cast it like a spell scroll. Your wizard’s turn comes up and they need to think fast. ![]() The party would need a miracle to get out of this situation alive. A majority of them are down and your wizard is out of spell slots. What is the difference between a page in a spell book and a spell scroll?ĭepending on your interpretation, we’d like to suggest a new homebrew rule: Emergency Spell Casting. Where this gets interesting is asking if a spell book is a magical item? While it is true that wizards get new spell slots when they level up, the way spell books are presented suggests that a wizard could know every wizard spell and have a spell book with spells they simply cannot cast yet. A wizard’s spell book contains spells of 1st level or higher and wizards may transcribe spells that they find into their spell book for 50 gp and 2 hours of time per spell level. For information on spell books we need to hop over to the Player’s Handbook and take a look at the scarce few paragraphs on page 114. ![]() ![]() We are about to look at stretching the rules a bit in their interpretation. All of these are true unless the magical item states otherwise. The notable piece of information we are pulling up here is that spells in magical items do not use spell slots to cast, require no components, and are automatically cast at the spell’s lowest level. Once activated, the scroll destroys itself.Ī few pages later in the DMG on page 141 we come across the rules for spells in magic items. In addition to this, they are also single use. As a quick summary, they are spells that are written onto a scroll where anyone who can read them can attempt to activate them. Spell scrolls are detailed in the Dungeon Master’s Guide on page 139. These interesting features of spell scrolls as consumables lead the way when it comes to making fun emergency spell casting homebrew rules for your Wizards. Despite these rules being bad for crafters, they do shed some light on interesting mechanics when it comes to spell scrolls. In 5th Edition crafting is all but absent from the game and the rarity system is bad if you want crafting to be a mainstay of your game. Consumables in Dungeons and Dragons are a bit iffy when it comes to their rules.
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