Never played PnP, was too busy doing other things n hearing from imbeciles how it was "the Devil." ..quit PC games at 3.5, I guess, or digital took over n it's a v.large gaming world.
Balder's Gate was my big intro to DnD. Never needed naught but the scroll and the skill to read it.
Honestly, if they gonna use the "but PnP," I call BS. Why not make it as simple as 3.5 n pay plat? (and NOT effing AS!)
When I say pnp I mean precisely that, 3.5. In 3.5 you don't use platinum to inscribe, you pay platinum for special inks that cost that money.
What I am saying is 100% 3.5. Many people when playing 3.5 at the table simply say "I'll discount 100 platinum to inscribe this lv 1 spell in my spellbook." It is simple speed to solve tasks that may not need to be role-played. But really what you're supposed to have done is use a special ink worth 100 gp.
Writing a New Spell into a Spellbook
Once a
wizard understands a new spell, she can record it into her spellbook.
Time
The process takes 24 hours, regardless of the spell’s level.
Space in the Spellbook
A spell takes up one page of the spellbook per spell level. Even a 0-level spell (cantrip) takes one page. A spellbook has one hundred pages.
Materials and Costs
Materials for writing the spell cost 100 gp per page.
Note that a
wizard does not have to pay these costs in time or gold for the spells she gains for free at each new level.
As you can see, in the SRD it says that materials are needed, in several parts of the 3.0/3.5 manual they mentioned special inks, which is logical. You don't need paper because you're copying it to your spellbook, so what do you need? Ink lol
What is needed to simplify the process for players?
- Components simplified into one (I prefer renamed to Arcane inwkwell, but name is not important) that comes in various sizes (small, medium and large). Veterans who have plat will be able to buy the large one, but a new player may not have plat to buy the large one, so it is good to have several sizes. (If you have played HC you will see how expensive it is to be a wizard when you don't have platinum accumulated lol) You spend as many doses as the spell level.
-That all scroll sellers sell this component. It's super irritating having to buy artificer spells at Cannith house and then go to the market to buy components. Or going down all the time to the lower floor in the portable hole.
The initial game was quite faithful to the pnp edition on which it was based, that's why they use inscription components, but it fails in that they have put a different component for each spell level. For God's sake, that's complicating things, a single component, you spend more of the component depending on the level of the spell. And it makes sense when you think that this component has to be an ink, and that each page is always worth the same, the only difference is that the higher the level of the spell, the more complex it is and the longer it is, and therefore it takes up more pages.
