Something I quite like and as both a DM and player I think is to quote a great book "mostly harmless" is personalizing/re-flavouring a wizard's spellbook to be more unique or more personal to the wizard.
Some of my favourites:
- Magic Tablet - Think the Sheikah Slate from Legend of Zelda; basically displays spells as luminous magical patterns on a slate. Side benefit: not flammable or water-soluble. Particularly fitting if multi-classing into Artificer so the whole "magi-tech" aesthetic fits.
- Holocron - Whether in the Jedi (Cube) or Sith (Pyramid), lifted from the Star Wars universe; displays spells and information as floating projections above the device. Not flammable or in danger of water damage, but still able to be smashed with sufficient force. Optional concept from some sources being a "guardian" that acts as the user interface for it.
- Tattoos - First encountered this idea via one of those Reddit "your -thing- from D&D" videos, but rather a cool idea for a wizard in a low-tech setting having to store their spells in the form of tattoos on their body considering paper and writing impliments were short to hand. Plus you have the side benefit of being immediately rather unique to look at.
- Enchanted Sand - Concept I toyed with for a time-themed wizard: literally storing spells within an hourglass/bottle of sand wich is enchanted to store shapes in itself and produce them when poured out onto a surface.
What are some of your favourite re-flavorings of wizard spellbook? Or do you think this whole idea is nonsense and wizards ought to have books alone?
One thing I am working on for my backup/next character is basically a bunch of wrapped up papers used for maps etc. on the sea.
I am thinking of a pirate/sailor background with the role of a captain/navigator. Getting spellbooks on the sea is a challenge so just started doodling on the back of maps. Think of inacurate maps of the sea, maps of a group of islands and ofcourse old treasure maps. Heck write on top of the drawings as well if you run out of space.
Basically a whole bunch of those, tied together and hanging over the shoulder. This also allows the writing of spells to be super chaotic, just imagine sitting down for a ritual spell: "Okay, so where was this spell again. Ah yes here it is, oh it is only part of it. Which scroll has the second half again?".
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Something I quite like and as both a DM and player I think is to quote a great book "mostly harmless" is personalizing/re-flavouring a wizard's spellbook to be more unique or more personal to the wizard.
Some of my favourites:
- Magic Tablet - Think the Sheikah Slate from Legend of Zelda; basically displays spells as luminous magical patterns on a slate. Side benefit: not flammable or water-soluble. Particularly fitting if multi-classing into Artificer so the whole "magi-tech" aesthetic fits.
- Holocron - Whether in the Jedi (Cube) or Sith (Pyramid), lifted from the Star Wars universe; displays spells and information as floating projections above the device. Not flammable or in danger of water damage, but still able to be smashed with sufficient force. Optional concept from some sources being a "guardian" that acts as the user interface for it.
- Tattoos - First encountered this idea via one of those Reddit "your -thing- from D&D" videos, but rather a cool idea for a wizard in a low-tech setting having to store their spells in the form of tattoos on their body considering paper and writing impliments were short to hand. Plus you have the side benefit of being immediately rather unique to look at.
- Enchanted Sand - Concept I toyed with for a time-themed wizard: literally storing spells within an hourglass/bottle of sand wich is enchanted to store shapes in itself and produce them when poured out onto a surface.
What are some of your favourite re-flavorings of wizard spellbook? Or do you think this whole idea is nonsense and wizards ought to have books alone?
One thing I am working on for my backup/next character is basically a bunch of wrapped up papers used for maps etc. on the sea.
I am thinking of a pirate/sailor background with the role of a captain/navigator. Getting spellbooks on the sea is a challenge so just started doodling on the back of maps. Think of inacurate maps of the sea, maps of a group of islands and ofcourse old treasure maps. Heck write on top of the drawings as well if you run out of space.
Basically a whole bunch of those, tied together and hanging over the shoulder. This also allows the writing of spells to be super chaotic, just imagine sitting down for a ritual spell: "Okay, so where was this spell again. Ah yes here it is, oh it is only part of it. Which scroll has the second half again?".