Prerequisite: Requires an Intelligence score of 14 or Higher, the Spellbook Feature, and the ability to cast at least one cantrip from the Wizard spell list.
Your clever ingenuity has allowed you to develop a means to use your Spellbook as a way to greatly increase the number of cantrips you have access to through the clever use of memory shortcuts and exercises.
- Increase your Intelligence score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
- You can use your Spellbook as an Arcane Focus
- When you find a wizard cantrip you can add it to your spellbook if you can spare the time to decipher and copy it. Copying a cantrip into your spellbook involves reproducing the basic form of the spell, then deciphering the unique system of notation used by the wizard who wrote it. You must practice the spell until you understand the sounds or gestures required, then transcribe it into your spellbook using your own notation. The process takes an hour and costs 25 gp. The cost represents material components you expend as you experiment with the spell to master it, as well as the fine inks you need to record it. Once you have spent this time and money, you can prepare the cantrip in a way similar to the way you use other spells. After you take a short rest, if you have access to your spellbook you can replace one cantrip per Intelligence modifier (minimum 1) you learned from the Wizard's Spellcasting feature with another cantrip from the Wizard spell list so long as the new cantrip is found in your spellbook.
- If you are able to cast a cantrip through a permanent trait (such as race, feats, or class features other than the Spellcasting or Pact Magic features) you can use your innate understanding of that spell to transcribe that spell into your spellbook even though it is not found on the Wizard's spell list. This is just like copying a new spell into your spellbook, but faster and easier, since you understand your own notation and already know how to cast the spell. You need to spend only 30 minutes and 5 gp. Once you have spent the time and money to do so; whenever you cast that cantrip using that trait, you may opt to instead cast that spell using Intelligence as your Spellcasting Ability and in doing so apply features to it that would normally only affect your wizard spells.
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Posted Jan 30, 2020If you arent using the UA-ClassFeatures from November 2019 consider limiting the ability to use this feat to a Long Rest instead. The last feature was added as a measure of clarity because there was some confusion as to how a cantrip gained through other means, that a wizard would have access could lead to a situation where they believe they can relearn any cantrip on despite the source so long as it is on the wizard spell list, and that isn't the RAI. It is included to make it clear that it makes sense for you to be able to learn how to adapt a cantrip you have available to your spellbook system without resorting to having to alter the wizard spell list, know the cantrip twice using two spellcasting abilities instead of once with a optional choice, having the cantrip twice both cast with intelligence but only one of which would be cast as a wizard spell, or end up making the mistake of thinking you can unlearn a racial cantrip found on the wizard spell list to suddenly increase the number of wizard cantrips you know. Your racial cantrip remains cast through the racial trait that granted it, and can't be replaced I don't see any issue giving the minor benefits someone who may not be paying close attention to the rules as written could be wanting to see when they read it and accidentally end up claiming from the feat otherwise.