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Heliomance
2008-11-26, 06:19 AM
If building a Wizard at level >1, how do you work out how many spells you have in your spellbook?

kamikasei
2008-11-26, 06:26 AM
"A wizard begins play with a spellbook containing all 0-level wizard spells (except those from her prohibited school or schools, if any; see School Specialization, below) plus three 1st-level spells of your choice. For each point of Intelligence bonus the wizard has, the spellbook holds one additional 1st-level spell of your choice."

sauce (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/classes/sorcererWizard.htm#wizard)

Killersquid
2008-11-26, 06:27 AM
The minimum is I think the beginning amount you start with, then 2 new spells every level above 1 you're going up. Each spell you buy after that you pay for the cost, but I'm not entirely sure.

Heliomance
2008-11-26, 06:42 AM
"A wizard begins play with a spellbook containing all 0-level wizard spells (except those from her prohibited school or schools, if any; see School Specialization, below) plus three 1st-level spells of your choice. For each point of Intelligence bonus the wizard has, the spellbook holds one additional 1st-level spell of your choice."

sauce (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/classes/sorcererWizard.htm#wizard)

That's all well and good - for first level. What I'm asking is how many spells you get if you're building, say, a level 10 wizard.

bosssmiley
2008-11-26, 06:47 AM
That's all well and good - for first level. What I'm asking is how many spells you get if you're building, say, a level 10 wizard.

3+Int + 2 per wizard lvl above 1st
(so 21+ >0 level spells at 10th level)

plus anything extra for school specialism, prestige classing, feat cheese, etc.

Your DM may rule that you get more spells than the base, either giving them to you gratis, or requiring you to buy in extra spells with your WBL cash (100gp/spell lvl IIRC).

kamikasei
2008-11-26, 06:50 AM
That's all well and good - for first level. What I'm asking is how many spells you get if you're building, say, a level 10 wizard.

Whoops. I totally missed the ">" in your OP.

You get two free spells to add to your book at each level.

Then, you can pay for more out of WBL.

How much they cost will depend on your DM. It's 100gp per page to scribe them into your book - so spell level x 100 per spell, until you get a Blessed Book. To get the spell to scribe in the first place, you might have to buy a scroll, or you might be able to copy from another wizard's book at an additional cost of 50gp per page, or you might be able to trade spells with a colleague without spending gold. So the maximum cost is 100gp per spell level plus the cost of a scroll, while the minimum cost is zero if your DM will let you away with having bartered for the spell and having a Blessed Book.

^ bosssmiley, I don't think you get bonus spells known relating to your chosen school.

Do note however that the Collegiate Wizard feat from Complete Arcane can boost your spells known, increasing it to 6+int at first level and 4 at each subsequent level. Can be handy if your DM's rulings on wealth-to-spells are either restrictive or unclear.

Heliomance
2008-11-26, 06:57 AM
Also, if you enter a PrC that requires you to ban a school, do you lose the ability to cast spells that you already knew from that school?

Evil DM Mark3
2008-11-26, 07:03 AM
Also, if you enter a PrC that requires you to ban a school, do you lose the ability to cast spells that you already knew from that school?

The PrC will usualy state this, which did you have in mind?

Remember that you have to spend a certain amount of your free spells on you specialised school.

Keld Denar
2008-11-26, 07:04 AM
Also, if you enter a PrC that requires you to ban a school, do you lose the ability to cast spells that you already knew from that school?

Yes, I assume you mean Incantrix or Red Wizard?

You'd still have the spells in your book, so another wizard could copy them out, but you can't prepare or cast them.

Evil DM Mark3
2008-11-26, 07:05 AM
Yes, I assume you mean Incantrix or Red Wizard?

Funny, I was sure Red Wizard actually stated you could still use them, just be unable to learn more.

Heliomance
2008-11-26, 07:19 AM
Incantarix doesn' say one way or the other.