Hi everyone, quick question. I'm a new DM and I was asked if my group wizard can learn spells from the town sorcerer if he spent time with him. I'm assuming that he would be able to learn spells that both classes can cast but I wanted to be sure.
Hi everyone, quick question. I'm a new DM and I was asked if my group wizard can learn spells from the town sorcerer if he spent time with him. I'm assuming that he would be able to learn spells that both classes can cast but I wanted to be sure.
I believe in order for a Wizard to learn a spell that the Sorcerer knows it would have to be a) on the Wizard spell list too, and b) transcribed to a scroll by the Sorcerer, which the Wizard would then use to transcribe it into his spellbook.
Scrolls cost money to make and also costs money to transcribe, but in this scenario and as a fellow dm, I'd like to toss out an idea for this.
Flavour wise in the phb etc sorcerers are portrayed as those with innate magic, while the wizard is those who have learned and created magic through understanding fundamental forces. So as a unique descriptor of what the wizard is doing (keeping the gold costs you wish to impose), the wizard might be trying to break down and explain what the sorcerer is doing. "So you've managed to create a shell of magic force around you, to act as a cushion for if your hit, as a substitute for armor?" for mage armor, as an example. The gold costs would represent certain materials needed to test and measure what the sorcerer is doing, etc.
This is just an idea for a fun reflavour of what might otherwise be a relatively dull affair of simply spending gold from your sheet to add things to it.
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Hi everyone, quick question. I'm a new DM and I was asked if my group wizard can learn spells from the town sorcerer if he spent time with him. I'm assuming that he would be able to learn spells that both classes can cast but I wanted to be sure.
I believe in order for a Wizard to learn a spell that the Sorcerer knows it would have to be a) on the Wizard spell list too, and b) transcribed to a scroll by the Sorcerer, which the Wizard would then use to transcribe it into his spellbook.
Agreed. That's how my Druid is planning on sharing a spell with our party's Wizard, by scribing it onto a scroll and giving it to him.
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Scrolls cost money to make and also costs money to transcribe, but in this scenario and as a fellow dm, I'd like to toss out an idea for this.
Flavour wise in the phb etc sorcerers are portrayed as those with innate magic, while the wizard is those who have learned and created magic through understanding fundamental forces. So as a unique descriptor of what the wizard is doing (keeping the gold costs you wish to impose), the wizard might be trying to break down and explain what the sorcerer is doing. "So you've managed to create a shell of magic force around you, to act as a cushion for if your hit, as a substitute for armor?" for mage armor, as an example. The gold costs would represent certain materials needed to test and measure what the sorcerer is doing, etc.
This is just an idea for a fun reflavour of what might otherwise be a relatively dull affair of simply spending gold from your sheet to add things to it.