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Robert Karlsson Svärd wrote:
> Alex Petrovich wrote:
> > Lets say my character is in a tavern looking over a fellow wizard's
> > spellbook. Can you Take 10 for the spellcraft check when copying spells?
> >
> >
> I don't see anything in the PHB that either states you could or that you
> couldn't (well, generally you can take 10 on skills when nonthreathened,
> and the skills doesn't say otherwise...) but you would need more time
> than a peak over the shoulder to copy a spell - see PHB p178-179.
>
> Robert Karlsson Svärd
This reminds me of a Wizard character I had who took "Eidetic
Memory"--or something from the Psionics Handbook. The DM and I had to
work out some rules, but it basically meant that in a situation like
this, I could make a spellcraft check to understand that page, memorize
it with another check, and then later work from memory to write it in a
spellbook. Note that this did not replace a spellbook, I couldn't cast
from that image in my head like I could with spell mastery, it merely
served as a reference. And yes, if I ever lost my spellbook (I
didn't), I would have been able to copy another out, spending the
apropriate gold in the process. Kind of a neat idea, I thought...
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