So, I am trying to make a modified arcane trickster for one of my PC's.
The main difference is that we are wanting to set up that they have a spellbook like a wizard and be able to prepare and can add spells to and from it. The number of prepared spells would be the "spells known" amount on the Rogue spell table. In addition, we are wanting to remove some of the spell selection restrictions that the default Arcane Trickster has.
Is there a way to make this work? Thank you in advance.
She isn't wanting to multiclass with Wizard (I already asked).
I would say don't try to homebrew it as what you want mostly isn't possible in the tools anyway, this would be more of a house rule. A few things I'd like to mention though:
D&D Beyond doesn't currently enforce the spell selection limitations on the Arcane Trickster or Eldritch Knight, so the player can actually already freely choose from the wizard spell list already if you let them.
While it's not a proper spellbook, it's already possible for an Arcane Trickster to take the Ritual Caster feat; Rogues even get an extra ability score increase at 10th-level so it's easy to pick up at least one feat without hurting progression. This would give them access to an expandable list of ritual spells that scale by character level, not spellcasting level, so could be a good way to emulate this in the existing rules.
Adding full spellbook functionality to a sub-class currently isn't possible; to emulate it your player would need to maintain their own list of what spells are in their own spellbook, and only select from those when swapping spells during a long rest.
Personally I'd keep it simple; just tell them to ignore the spell selection restrictions when picking spells, and then encourage them to take Ritual Caster to get some "spellbook" functionality. This gives an Arcane Trickster a lot of added flexibility already, as well as ritual casting from the book's entire list of learned spells.
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So, I am trying to make a modified arcane trickster for one of my PC's.
The main difference is that we are wanting to set up that they have a spellbook like a wizard and be able to prepare and can add spells to and from it. The number of prepared spells would be the "spells known" amount on the Rogue spell table. In addition, we are wanting to remove some of the spell selection restrictions that the default Arcane Trickster has.
Is there a way to make this work? Thank you in advance.
She isn't wanting to multiclass with Wizard (I already asked).
I would say don't try to homebrew it as what you want mostly isn't possible in the tools anyway, this would be more of a house rule. A few things I'd like to mention though:
Personally I'd keep it simple; just tell them to ignore the spell selection restrictions when picking spells, and then encourage them to take Ritual Caster to get some "spellbook" functionality. This gives an Arcane Trickster a lot of added flexibility already, as well as ritual casting from the book's entire list of learned spells.
Former D&D Beyond Customer of six years: With the axing of piecemeal purchasing, lack of meaningful development, and toxic moderation the site isn't worth paying for anymore. I remain a free user only until my groups are done migrating from DDB, and if necessary D&D, after which I'm done. There are better systems owned by better companies out there.
I have unsubscribed from all topics and will not reply to messages. My homebrew is now 100% unsupported.