A lot of my games players find a spellbok containing xyz spells. Can they use the pages as one shot spell scrolls or is this only an item a wizard would want?
Spellbooks-as-loot are only for Wizards to copy, RAW. Scrolls are different. A well-filled spellbook would fetch a good sum of coin from a city's local mage, though.
after all, only certain classes can even use spellbooks anyways, right? I should ask while on the topic, what about Paladins? How do we use them if we find them?
Only wizards use spellbooks. Clerics, druids, and paladins prepare spells from their class spell list at the end of a long rest. Bards, Rangers, Sorcerers, and Warlocks know a set spells from their class spell list. A character can only use a spell scroll if the spell is on their class spell list. In short, no, a paladin can not use a spellbook.
"The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read." - Terry Pratchett
But because wizards have to learn their spells in order to preform them later, could a wizard learn to do a at lest a level 1 spell that's not from their class spell list from a scroll? At least within reason
By the book, no, never. If your DM allows it, which they rarely will, it would might lead to the wizard going a bit rampant. Some strategic downtime between a 1st level wizard and a 1st level cleric would give the wizard all of the cleric's spells, making the cleric obsolete.
"The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read." - Terry Pratchett
By the book, no, never. If your DM allows it, which they rarely will, it would might lead to the wizard going a bit rampant. Some strategic downtime between a 1st level wizard and a 1st level cleric would give the wizard all of the cleric's spells, making the cleric obsolete.
That depends a great deal on your definition of obsolete--the wizard can only prepare so many spells at a time, can only cast so many spells per day, and can only do so many things per round--but yes.
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That's very fair; I agree with you. I still think that a wizard that can sample from every spell list given a scroll could make the wizard by the most potent spellcaster.
"The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read." - Terry Pratchett
The rules already have two ways to learn spells outside your class: feats (Magic Initiate, Spell Sniper, Ritual Caster, racial feats) and multiclassing. Wizards already have the biggest spell list by a wide margin and borrowing from other classes is one of the Bard's defining features.
It should be noted that book warlocks, or anyone with Ritual Caster feat, can use these spellbooks as part of their ritual castings, so technically its not just wizards. But most of the time, yeah, its going to be a wizard-only thing.
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A lot of my games players find a spellbok containing xyz spells. Can they use the pages as one shot spell scrolls or is this only an item a wizard would want?
Spellbooks-as-loot are only for Wizards to copy, RAW. Scrolls are different. A well-filled spellbook would fetch a good sum of coin from a city's local mage, though.
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in awhile.
after all, only certain classes can even use spellbooks anyways, right? I should ask while on the topic, what about Paladins? How do we use them if we find them?
Only wizards use spellbooks. Clerics, druids, and paladins prepare spells from their class spell list at the end of a long rest. Bards, Rangers, Sorcerers, and Warlocks know a set spells from their class spell list. A character can only use a spell scroll if the spell is on their class spell list. In short, no, a paladin can not use a spellbook.
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"The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read." - Terry Pratchett
But because wizards have to learn their spells in order to preform them later, could a wizard learn to do a at lest a level 1 spell that's not from their class spell list from a scroll? At least within reason
By the book, no, never. If your DM allows it, which they rarely will, it would might lead to the wizard going a bit rampant. Some strategic downtime between a 1st level wizard and a 1st level cleric would give the wizard all of the cleric's spells, making the cleric obsolete.
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"The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read." - Terry Pratchett
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That's very fair; I agree with you. I still think that a wizard that can sample from every spell list given a scroll could make the wizard by the most potent spellcaster.
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"The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read." - Terry Pratchett
It should be noted that book warlocks, or anyone with Ritual Caster feat, can use these spellbooks as part of their ritual castings, so technically its not just wizards. But most of the time, yeah, its going to be a wizard-only thing.