I heard from an AL monitor that if using PHB + XgtE I can get Booming Blade / Green Flame Blade if I purchase /escribe them on a scroll to learn them. Is that true?
A wizard has a spell book into which they can scribe spells. Wizards can obtain spells from adventures they play and obtain spells that they can copy into their spell books that are not part of their +1. This includes spending gold to purchase scrolls of spells and copy them into their spellbooks.
However, cantrips are not in spell books. They aren't copied. They are chosen at level 1 and when you level up to a level granting a new cantrip. Anything that a character chooses directly must come from their main source or the +1. As a result, cantrips like booming blade or green flame blade aren't available to anyone if their +1 is not SCAG since cantrips have to be chosen when leveling up.
This also means that the only caster with access to spells outside their +1 is the wizard because everyone else uses spells that they have selected from their various sources when they level up or prepare spells from a list that is composed only of those in PHB +1.
The AL Players Guide (v9.1, page 3) does allow you to purchase scrolls with cantrips on them for 25GP each with no mention of +1 limitation, which you could use to cast the spells once. It's pretty horribly expensive and inefficient, so you certainly would want to be judicious about when you use the spell, but it is an option.
So no cantrip scroll and then study to learn/know it.
Does this means when a character gets taught Wizardry he gets bopped on the head with a staff and automatically knows cantrips? but has to learn and scribe spells.
So no cantrip scroll and then study to learn/know it.
Does this means when a character gets taught Wizardry he gets bopped on the head with a staff and automatically knows cantrips? but has to learn and scribe spells.
I mean... if you're going off of pure game mechanics and all... then yeah, kinda.
It kind of reminds me of when I played a longer AL session where the characters leveled up in the middle of the adventure. A sorcerer in the party basically said, "Oh uh... by the way, I sold my soul to some eldritch horror in the middle of the night" to explain how he was suddenly multiclassing as Warlock. In an RP-heavy story there would have be some kind of justification for a sudden shift like that, but in something like AL which doesn't necessarily require or reward in-depth role playing, there's no need to really think about it beyond the pure mechanics of the class as a series of rules written for a game.
No characters in any D&D game learn cantrips from scrolls. Otherwise every character could easily obtain all cantrips, which is not how the game is designed. This isn’t a game rule specifically to AL, this is how PHB outlines the rules.
This also means that the only caster with access to spells outside their +1 is the wizard because everyone else uses spells that they have selected from their various sources when they level up or prepare spells from a list that is composed only of those in PHB +1.
I'll put a slight caveat on this to say that I *think* Ritual Caster feat-havers and Tomelocks can scribe rituals from outside their PHB+1 into their books as well.
This also means that the only caster with access to spells outside their +1 is the wizard because everyone else uses spells that they have selected from their various sources when they level up or prepare spells from a list that is composed only of those in PHB +1.
I'll put a slight caveat on this to say that I *think* Ritual Caster feat-havers and Tomelocks can scribe rituals from outside their PHB+1 into their books as well.
Technically true, but the list of non-PHB rituals is as follows: Ceremony, Skywrite
This also means that the only caster with access to spells outside their +1 is the wizard because everyone else uses spells that they have selected from their various sources when they level up or prepare spells from a list that is composed only of those in PHB +1.
I'll put a slight caveat on this to say that I *think* Ritual Caster feat-havers and Tomelocks can scribe rituals from outside their PHB+1 into their books as well.
Technically true, but the list of non-PHB rituals is as follows: Ceremony, Skywrite
I did say slight. :-) Theoretically, though, the PHB+1 rule will remain and the list of non-PHB rituals is liable to grow over time.
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I heard from an AL monitor that if using PHB + XgtE I can get Booming Blade / Green Flame Blade if I purchase /escribe them on a scroll to learn them. Is that true?
No, there is no way to learn cantrips aside from feats/leveling and any selected that way are subject to phb+1.
A wizard has a spell book into which they can scribe spells. Wizards can obtain spells from adventures they play and obtain spells that they can copy into their spell books that are not part of their +1. This includes spending gold to purchase scrolls of spells and copy them into their spellbooks.
However, cantrips are not in spell books. They aren't copied. They are chosen at level 1 and when you level up to a level granting a new cantrip. Anything that a character chooses directly must come from their main source or the +1. As a result, cantrips like booming blade or green flame blade aren't available to anyone if their +1 is not SCAG since cantrips have to be chosen when leveling up.
This also means that the only caster with access to spells outside their +1 is the wizard because everyone else uses spells that they have selected from their various sources when they level up or prepare spells from a list that is composed only of those in PHB +1.
The AL Players Guide (v9.1, page 3) does allow you to purchase scrolls with cantrips on them for 25GP each with no mention of +1 limitation, which you could use to cast the spells once. It's pretty horribly expensive and inefficient, so you certainly would want to be judicious about when you use the spell, but it is an option.
So no cantrip scroll and then study to learn/know it.
Does this means when a character gets taught Wizardry he gets bopped on the head with a staff and automatically knows cantrips? but has to learn and scribe spells.
I mean... if you're going off of pure game mechanics and all... then yeah, kinda.
It kind of reminds me of when I played a longer AL session where the characters leveled up in the middle of the adventure. A sorcerer in the party basically said, "Oh uh... by the way, I sold my soul to some eldritch horror in the middle of the night" to explain how he was suddenly multiclassing as Warlock. In an RP-heavy story there would have be some kind of justification for a sudden shift like that, but in something like AL which doesn't necessarily require or reward in-depth role playing, there's no need to really think about it beyond the pure mechanics of the class as a series of rules written for a game.
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No characters in any D&D game learn cantrips from scrolls. Otherwise every character could easily obtain all cantrips, which is not how the game is designed. This isn’t a game rule specifically to AL, this is how PHB outlines the rules.
I'll put a slight caveat on this to say that I *think* Ritual Caster feat-havers and Tomelocks can scribe rituals from outside their PHB+1 into their books as well.
Technically true, but the list of non-PHB rituals is as follows: Ceremony, Skywrite
I did say slight. :-) Theoretically, though, the PHB+1 rule will remain and the list of non-PHB rituals is liable to grow over time.