My witch just found a packed spellbook. Can he learn the spells on the witch list from the spellbook as from a scroll?
Doesn't say anything about it in the APG, but I'd allow it, check with your DM
Spellbooks are scrolls, just conveniently bound together.
Spellbooks are scrolls, just conveniently bound together.
No they are not. Nowhere does it refer to a spellbook's pages as being equivalent to scrolls. To make use of a captured spellbook, your witch needs to make the spells into scrolls and then perform the ritual to give them to your familiar. You need the Scribe Scroll feat, lots of Spellcraft, and time and money. You could also pay an NPC to do it, adventurers being busy, but with lots of spending cash and all.
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To make use of a captured spellbook, your witch needs to make the spells into scrolls and then perform the ritual to give them to your familiar.
You can't even do that. You can only make scrolls of spells you know. You only know spells that are already in your spellbook or familiar. You can make spellcraft checks to "understand" a spell, but you don't "know" the spell until it's in your book or familiar.
Your best bet is to exchange the spellbook to a wizard for scrolls of a few of the spells you want.
Basically the trade of off the witch class is that you save money you would have spent on ink and books but have to get your spells from scrolls, which is more expensive than borrowing a spellbook.
Because of how scrolls are priced, it's a good idea to pick spells with expensive material components as your 2 free spells per level.
To make use of a captured spellbook, your witch needs to make the spells into scrolls and then perform the ritual to give them to your familiar.You can't even do that. You can only make scrolls of spells you know. You only know spells that are already in your spellbook or familiar. You can make spellcraft checks to "understand" a spell, but you don't "know" the spell until it's in your book or familiar.
Your best bet is to exchange the spellbook to a wizard for scrolls of a few of the spells you want.
Basically the trade of off the witch class is that you save money you would have spent on ink and books but have to get your spells from scrolls, which is more expensive than borrowing a spellbook.
Because of how scrolls are priced, it's a good idea to pick spells with expensive material components as your 2 free spells per level.
You're right! For some reason, I had assumed that understanding a spell was enough to be able to scribe a scroll of it. It says in black and white in the Scribe Scroll feat that you have to know the spell.
<kidding> Thanks for shattering my world so precariously balanced on my knowledge of the Pathfinder Rules... So insensitive!!! </kidding>