Sorcerer casting from a spell book, How?


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I have seen it said that somehow a sorc can use a spellbook. What is that referring to?


Do you remember where you saw this?


Sorcerers can learn spells from spellbooks if they have spells known left. It's a way to learn "rare" spells instead of just leveling up and suddenly knowing it. Of course, that means "rare spells" have to be a thing in the game being ran, but it's there.

Scarab Sages

There's also the Mnemonic Vestment, which lets you cast a spell once a day from a written source (like a spellbook or a scroll) using one of your own spell slots, and without consuming the source.


If the book is made of pages of spell knowledge that would work.


There is the feat Versatile Spontaneity. It allows a spontaneous caster to memorize one spell a day from a spellbook or a scroll.


That feat would do it.

Thanks.


I am curious why you want to do this. Applying metamagic without needing a full-round action to cast?

Scarab Sages

It expands the number of spells available to you. Since you don't have to have the spell as a known spell, it can be anything on the Sorcerer list. So, for example, if you don't need Teleport every day, you could memorize it from a spellbook or cast it using a Mnemonic Vestment on the days that you do need it. That way you don't have to burn a scroll, and you don't have to waste one of your limited spells known on a situational spell.

Having a Mnemonic Vestment and a Ring of Spell Knowledge greatly increased my Sorcerer's ability to be a utility caster. I'd forgotten about Versatile Spontaneity, but that's a good option as well.


Ferious Thune wrote:

It expands the number of spells available to you. Since you don't have to have the spell as a known spell, it can be anything on the Sorcerer list. So, for example, if you don't need Teleport every day, you could memorize it from a spellbook or cast it using a Mnemonic Vestment on the days that you do need it. That way you don't have to burn a scroll, and you don't have to waste one of your limited spells known on a situational spell.

Having a Mnemonic Vestment and a Ring of Spell Knowledge greatly increased my Sorcerer's ability to be a utility caster. I'd forgotten about Versatile Spontaneity, but that's a good option as well.

Gotcha. It's the flexibility.

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