here appears to be a bug with the new Necromancer Wizard's Necromancy Spellbook feature.
At level 3, Undead Familiar states:
“The Find Familiar spell appears in your spellbook.”
However, D&D Beyond appears to be implementing this as though Find Familiar is also automatically prepared. The feature doesn't say that the spell is always prepared; it should simply be added to the Necromancer's spellbook and then follow the normal Wizard preparation rules.
This becomes particularly apparent if the Necromancer has the Familiar Trainer background and Familiar Friend Origin Feat. Familiar Friend explicitly states that you always have Find Familiar prepared and allows you to cast it once per Long Rest without a spell slot or Material components, as well as with your spell slots.
With both features, the character sheet displays multiple separate entries for Find Familiar, including one attributed to Necromancy Spellbook. The Necromancy Spellbook version should not automatically appear among the character's prepared spells.
With Familiar Friend, I believe there should only be the two appropriate actionable entries for Find Familiar:
USE — the free 1/Long Rest casting from Familiar Friend
CAST — casting the Familiar Friend spell using a spell slot
The Necromancy Spellbook feature should simply place Find Familiar in the Wizard's spellbook, where the player could choose to prepare it normally if they did not already have it prepared from another source.
Expected behavior: Necromancy Spellbook adds Find Familiar to the Wizard's spellbook but does not automatically prepare it.
Current behavior: Necromancy Spellbook appears to add an additional prepared version of Find Familiar, resulting in redundant entries, particularly when combined with Familiar Friend.
This does seem like a bug, since the feature definitely doesn't say the spell is always prepared. However, since it's a ritual spell and Wizards can ritual-cast spells from their spellbook that they don't have prepared, there probably should still be an "as ritual" entry for the spell in the Spells list.
(This is probably why the feature doesn't "always prepare" the spell; Wizards in particular almost never have any reason to actually prepare this spell.)
If the Feature grants the spell, you should not have to add it to your spellbook. It should be provided, and it should list in your Spells tab that the source is Necromancy Spellbook, instead of Wizard; the same way that other granted spells show their source, be it an origin feat or class feature.
Anything saying "This appears in your spellbook" should make it appear in your spellbook, not have a fix of "well, add it yourself." That... doesn't make sense.
If the Feature grants the spell, you should not have to add it to your spellbook. It should be provided, and it should list in your Spells tab that the source is Necromancy Spellbook, instead of Wizard; the same way that other granted spells show their source, be it an origin feat or class feature.
Anything saying "This appears in your spellbook" should make it appear in your spellbook, not have a fix of "well, add it yourself." That... doesn't make sense.
I'm fairly certain the system doesn't support adding spells to your learned list, only the actively castable spells as it stands.
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here appears to be a bug with the new Necromancer Wizard's Necromancy Spellbook feature.
At level 3, Undead Familiar states:
However, D&D Beyond appears to be implementing this as though Find Familiar is also automatically prepared. The feature doesn't say that the spell is always prepared; it should simply be added to the Necromancer's spellbook and then follow the normal Wizard preparation rules.
This becomes particularly apparent if the Necromancer has the Familiar Trainer background and Familiar Friend Origin Feat. Familiar Friend explicitly states that you always have Find Familiar prepared and allows you to cast it once per Long Rest without a spell slot or Material components, as well as with your spell slots.
With both features, the character sheet displays multiple separate entries for Find Familiar, including one attributed to Necromancy Spellbook. The Necromancy Spellbook version should not automatically appear among the character's prepared spells.
With Familiar Friend, I believe there should only be the two appropriate actionable entries for Find Familiar:
The Necromancy Spellbook feature should simply place Find Familiar in the Wizard's spellbook, where the player could choose to prepare it normally if they did not already have it prepared from another source.
Expected behavior: Necromancy Spellbook adds Find Familiar to the Wizard's spellbook but does not automatically prepare it.
Current behavior: Necromancy Spellbook appears to add an additional prepared version of Find Familiar, resulting in redundant entries, particularly when combined with Familiar Friend.
This does seem like a bug, since the feature definitely doesn't say the spell is always prepared. However, since it's a ritual spell and Wizards can ritual-cast spells from their spellbook that they don't have prepared, there probably should still be an "as ritual" entry for the spell in the Spells list.
(This is probably why the feature doesn't "always prepare" the spell; Wizards in particular almost never have any reason to actually prepare this spell.)
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ModeratorFixed! However, you'll need to manually add the spell to your spellbook.
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If the Feature grants the spell, you should not have to add it to your spellbook. It should be provided, and it should list in your Spells tab that the source is Necromancy Spellbook, instead of Wizard; the same way that other granted spells show their source, be it an origin feat or class feature.
Anything saying "This appears in your spellbook" should make it appear in your spellbook, not have a fix of "well, add it yourself." That... doesn't make sense.
I'm fairly certain the system doesn't support adding spells to your learned list, only the actively castable spells as it stands.