As a wizard, you gain the following class features. ...
Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:
...
A spellbook
Spellcasting
As a student of arcane magic, you have a spellbook [as per a wizard's equipment] containing spells that show the first glimmerings of your true power. See Spells Rules for the general rules of spellcasting and the Spells Listing for the wizard spell list. ...
Cantrips
At 1st level, you know three cantrips of your choice from the wizard spell list. You learn additional wizard cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Wizard table.
Spellbook
At 1st level, you have a spellbook containing six 1st-level wizard spells of your choice. Your spellbook is the repository of the wizard spells you know, except your cantrips, which are fixed in your mind. [yet the acquisition of this 50gp book, and its valuable inkings, is not explained]. ...
Preparing and Casting Spells
... You prepare ... a number of wizard spells from your spellbook equal to your Intelligence modifier + your wizard level (minimum of one spell). ...
Learning Spells of 1st Level and Higher
Each time you gain a wizard level, you can add two wizard spells of your choice to your spellbook for free. [though I'd be tempted to add in the 1 hour and 10 gp cost equivalent to if the spellbook had been lost... speaking of which:] ...
Replacing the Book. You can copy a spell from your own spellbook into another book—for example, if you want to make a backup copy of your spellbook. This is just like copying a new spell into your spellbook, but faster and easier, since you understand your own notation and already know how to cast the spell. You need spend only 1 hour and 10 gp for each level of the copied spell.
If you lose your spellbook, you can use the same procedure to transcribe the spells that you have prepared into a new spellbook. Filling out the remainder of your spellbook requires you to find new spells to do so, as normal. For this reason, many wizards keep backup spellbooks in a safe place. ...
You have scribed a set of arcane formulas in your spellbook that you can use to formulate a cantrip in your mind. Whenever you finish a long rest and consult those formulas in your spellbook, you can replace one wizard cantrip you know with another cantrip from the wizard spell list.
So RAW it says "At 1st level, you have a spellbook containing six 1st-level wizard spells of your choice" but, in a case of a character that multiclasses into wizardry, my question is how?
One thing that I did with a 1st level artificer, who I planned to later multiclass as a wizard, was to start him with an inheritor background so as to explain the spellbook (and ring, but the planned warlock dip is another story). With the spellbook, thinking now it might make sense to have it pre inscribed (for my 15 int svirfneblin) with 3 ritual cast type spells. Don-Jean could then start all prepared as a fledgling Wizard with 3 other spells in mind which, given appropriate materials, he could write into the book.
In cases of PCs multiclassing as wizards who don't have a workable explanation for their possession of a spellbook, I like the idea that they'd have to buy a grimly blank grimoire to which they'd then be able to add in (at replacing the book costs) just the number of spells that they started with pre-prepared.
What are your ideas or thoughts relating to the acquisition of spellbooks and their contents by wizards?
Someone who would multiclass into a wizard would probably get a spellbook beforehand and train beforehand, though I may be missing a detail.
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The Circle of Hedgehogs Druid Beholder/Animated Armor Level -20 Bardof the OIADSB Cult, here are our rules.Sig.Also a sauce council member, but it's been dead for a while.
Yeah, I guess you could retcon having a spellbook in an inventory or something to a similar effect. Sad for other classes that their features don't have equivalent, "As a student of x, you have y" clauses
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How do you handle this/think it should/could be handled?
Class Features
As a wizard, you gain the following class features. ...
Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:
Spellcasting
As a student of arcane magic, you have a spellbook [as per a wizard's equipment] containing spells that show the first glimmerings of your true power. See Spells Rules for the general rules of spellcasting and the Spells Listing for the wizard spell list. ...
Cantrips
At 1st level, you know three cantrips of your choice from the wizard spell list. You learn additional wizard cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Wizard table.
Spellbook
At 1st level, you have a spellbook containing six 1st-level wizard spells of your choice. Your spellbook is the repository of the wizard spells you know, except your cantrips, which are fixed in your mind.
[yet the acquisition of this 50gp book, and its valuable inkings, is not explained]. ...
Preparing and Casting Spells
... You prepare ... a number of wizard spells from your spellbook equal to your Intelligence modifier + your wizard level (minimum of one spell). ...
Learning Spells of 1st Level and Higher
Each time you gain a wizard level, you can add two wizard spells of your choice to your spellbook for free. [though I'd be tempted to add in the 1 hour and 10 gp cost equivalent to if the spellbook had been lost... speaking of which:] ...
Replacing the Book. You can copy a spell from your own spellbook into another book—for example, if you want to make a backup copy of your spellbook. This is just like copying a new spell into your spellbook, but faster and easier, since you understand your own notation and already know how to cast the spell. You need spend only 1 hour and 10 gp for each level of the copied spell.
If you lose your spellbook, you can use the same procedure to transcribe the spells that you have prepared into a new spellbook. Filling out the remainder of your spellbook requires you to find new spells to do so, as normal. For this reason, many wizards keep backup spellbooks in a safe place. ...
Optional Class Features
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Cantrip Formulas
3rd-level wizard feature
You have scribed a set of arcane formulas in your spellbook that you can use to formulate a cantrip in your mind. Whenever you finish a long rest and consult those formulas in your spellbook, you can replace one wizard cantrip you know with another cantrip from the wizard spell list.
So RAW it says "At 1st level, you have a spellbook containing six 1st-level wizard spells of your choice" but, in a case of a character that multiclasses into wizardry, my question is how?
One thing that I did with a 1st level artificer, who I planned to later multiclass as a wizard, was to start him with an inheritor background so as to explain the spellbook (and ring, but the planned warlock dip is another story). With the spellbook, thinking now it might make sense to have it pre inscribed (for my 15 int svirfneblin) with 3 ritual cast type spells. Don-Jean could then start all prepared as a fledgling Wizard with 3 other spells in mind which, given appropriate materials, he could write into the book.
In cases of PCs multiclassing as wizards who don't have a workable explanation for their possession of a spellbook, I like the idea that they'd have to buy a grimly blank grimoire to which they'd then be able to add in (at replacing the book costs) just the number of spells that they started with pre-prepared.
What are your ideas or thoughts relating to the acquisition of spellbooks and their contents by wizards?
Someone who would multiclass into a wizard would probably get a spellbook beforehand and train beforehand, though I may be missing a detail.
The Circle of Hedgehogs Druid Beholder/Animated Armor Level -20 Bard of the OIADSB Cult, here are our rules. Sig. Also a sauce council member, but it's been dead for a while.
Yeah, I guess you could retcon having a spellbook in an inventory or something to a similar effect.
Sad for other classes that their features don't have equivalent, "As a student of x, you have y" clauses