My campaign recently moved from pen and paper to D&DBeyond, so I'm trying to port over as much as I can. I gave my players gems that grant them a few elemental spells that are always prepared, and I can get this working just fine for the cleric and druid using the homebrew sublcass trick that I came across since their domain/circle specific spells already have the property of being always prepared. I'm running into a problem with the Warlock, however. Their subclass just adds spells to the list they can choose from, so adding to this list doesn't make them always prepared. Is there a way to navigate around this, or even force the subclass spells to be always prepared? I don't care if the subclass spells were to be always prepared, I just don't want the spells that I had previously given them to count against all the other spells they could have.
Warlocks don’t “Prepare” spells, they “know” spells. You can add a class feature to their subclass and as part of that feature you can “Add Spell” where you list the spell you want to grant them, set the Ability score as Cha, and then where it asks “Consumes Spell Slot” put yes and where it asks “Counts as Known Spell” put no.
Do that for each spell. That same process will also work for Bards, Sorcerers, and Rangers who all also know spells, but do not prepare them.
You can use the same technique for Artificers, Clerics, Druids, and Paladins, only leave the “Counts as Known Spell” blank but make “Always Prepared” as yes instead.
For Wizards I believe it would use all three fields, but slightly different since Wizards are not limited in how many spells they can learn, so “Consumes Spell Slot” put yes, “Counts as Known Spell” put yes, and “Always Prepared” put yes.
Hi All!
My campaign recently moved from pen and paper to D&DBeyond, so I'm trying to port over as much as I can. I gave my players gems that grant them a few elemental spells that are always prepared, and I can get this working just fine for the cleric and druid using the homebrew sublcass trick that I came across since their domain/circle specific spells already have the property of being always prepared. I'm running into a problem with the Warlock, however. Their subclass just adds spells to the list they can choose from, so adding to this list doesn't make them always prepared. Is there a way to navigate around this, or even force the subclass spells to be always prepared? I don't care if the subclass spells were to be always prepared, I just don't want the spells that I had previously given them to count against all the other spells they could have.
Thank you!
Warlocks don’t “Prepare” spells, they “know” spells. You can add a class feature to their subclass and as part of that feature you can “Add Spell” where you list the spell you want to grant them, set the Ability score as Cha, and then where it asks “Consumes Spell Slot” put yes and where it asks “Counts as Known Spell” put no.
Do that for each spell. That same process will also work for Bards, Sorcerers, and Rangers who all also know spells, but do not prepare them.
You can use the same technique for Artificers, Clerics, Druids, and Paladins, only leave the “Counts as Known Spell” blank but make “Always Prepared” as yes instead.
For Wizards I believe it would use all three fields, but slightly different since Wizards are not limited in how many spells they can learn, so “Consumes Spell Slot” put yes, “Counts as Known Spell” put yes, and “Always Prepared” put yes.
I hope that helps.
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