I could use some help Please

[Lyle Stirk]

Hello everyone,

I have a question that I am hoping someone might be able to help with.

If a player has a character that is a Necromancer/Archivist and their Restricted schools are Evocation & Illusions can that character put Evocation and or Illusion type divine spells in their prayer book example: Light of Lunia, which is a divine Evocation spell)?

[DMFTodd]

Interesting one. Specialization says "Spells of the prohibited school are not available to the wizard". It doesn't say caster, or character, or player. It says "wizard" throughout. So I'd say the cleric portion of the character is unaffected, by rules as written.

Doesn't make sense to restrict it logically (that being a rather silly word when talking about D&D, but here goes): Divine spells are granted by the gods. Why would the god limit the spells granted because of my studies as a wizard?

[Hierophantasm]

They sound like two separate books your character is lugging around; i.e. you should be able to cast spells from prohibited schools, provided they are not cast as wizard spells, as archivist spells when applicable.

Sounds like your character needs a PMA: a "personal 'magical' assistant", so you don't have to carry so many books around. It's the size of your coin purse, and has a magical power source (bound lithium-ion elemental sold separately) to record your spell entries. Fast and easy, you can even listen to your favorite bard performances while you prepare spells! The PMA: your Oerth, made easy!

[Lyle Stirk]

Thanks for the input gang I appreciate it

Hey Hierophantasm I will have to look into one of those PMA's they sound very useful

[The Jade]

Hierophantasm wrote:

Sounds like your character needs a PMA: a "personal 'magical' assistant", so you don't have to carry so many books around. It's the size of your coin purse, and has a magical power source (bound lithium-ion elemental sold separately) to record your spell entries. Fast and easy, you can even listen to your favorite bard performances while you prepare spells! The PMA: your Oerth, made easy!

Very nice, Hiero.

::applauds::

[Rezdave]

DMFTodd wrote:

Specialization says "Spells of the prohibited school are not available to the wizard". It doesn't say caster, or character, or player. It says "wizard" throughout. So I'd say the cleric portion of the character is unaffected, by rules as written.

I don't know Archivist well, but from this thread see it is divine. Then yes, you can cast the spells.

Note that many Prestige classes increase your total caster level. If this is the case with the Archivist, they would not stack for the prohibited schools.

Disregard if the above doesn't apply to your case.

Rez

[Valegrim]

hmm; DMT gave you nice rules clairification; but I consider things this way. How will this choice affect your game and will it cheat other players or cause some unbalance. If in doubt let the player play test the combination and see what happens, mabye you will learn something useful. I find it more useful to be a fun moderator than a rules lawyer. If in doubt; you can poll your players to see how much they care; if no one has a strong objection; try it out and make a note so that you can build your mobs that way; you should test it both ways because what is good for the goose....