Every time you level up you get to learn 2 new spells.
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In this case, there are two different definitions of level being used: character level and spell level. Each time your character increases his/her character level (specifically, your wizard level), you can add two spells of an appropriate spell level to the spell book.
The number of spells you can add does not increase; you only add two spells for free each time your wizard level increases.
... and those two spells can be of any spell level you can cast. So if you can cast 2nd-level spells, your two new spells can be 2nd-level, or 1st-level, or one 2nd-level and one 1st-level.
(Or cantrips, but most people don't waste their free spells on new cantrips...)
... and those two spells can be of any spell level you can cast. So if you can cast 2nd-level spells, your two new spells can be 2nd-level, or 1st-level, or one 2nd-level and one 1st-level.
(Or cantrips, but most people don't waste their free spells on new cantrips...)
The only time you'd even have the OPTION is as a specialist, who didn't get his opposition school cantrips @ 1st level... universalists get all the cantrips.
But, yeah, I don't know anyone who'd waste the per level spell gains on cantrips... so much more efficient to just find some other wizard who has 'em, trade him a spell or two in exchange for copying his cantrips out of his book.
1) Honestly, it wouldn't hurt if all wizards got all the starting cantrips. The "except from your opposition schools" text is probably a legacy of 3.5, where you couldn't prepare opposition-school spells at all.
2) There's also the possibility of other cantrips, though Paizo tries not to publish any more official cantrips.
The rule in the Core Rulebook is "wizards get all cantrips," which means that every new book with cantrips means wizards start with even more spells, and there are some here at Paizo who are uncomfortable with that. However, I personally see that as no different than a book with yet another 1st cleric or druid spell that all clerics miraculously gain access too as soon as the book is available, and cantrips are of such minor power that giving a caster extra options really isn't a big deal.
The rule in the Core Rulebook is "wizards get all cantrips," which means that every new book with cantrips means wizards start with even more spells, and there are some here at Paizo who are uncomfortable with that. However, I personally see that as no different than a book with yet another 1st cleric or druid spell that all clerics miraculously gain access too as soon as the book is available, and cantrips are of such minor power that giving a caster extra options really isn't a big deal.
Any thoughts on how to curb the power of divine casters knowing everything? In my group we either have very firm rules on what books are allowed in a campaign, or trade core spells out for new ones. Pathfinder doesn't have the years of bloat and splatbooks that 3.5 did, but as more books get published we could get into the same situation. Wizards at least have to find the spell before they copy it into their spell book, or use one of their 2/level free spells. Clerics and druids just know everything.
The rule in the Core Rulebook is "wizards get all cantrips," which means that every new book with cantrips means wizards start with even more spells, and there are some here at Paizo who are uncomfortable with that. However, I personally see that as no different than a book with yet another 1st cleric or druid spell that all clerics miraculously gain access too as soon as the book is available, and cantrips are of such minor power that giving a caster extra options really isn't a big deal.Any thoughts on how to curb the power of divine casters knowing everything? In my group we either have very firm rules on what books are allowed in a campaign, or trade core spells out for new ones. Pathfinder doesn't have the years of bloat and splatbooks that 3.5 did, but as more books get published we could get into the same situation. Wizards at least have to find the spell before they copy it into their spell book, or use one of their 2/level free spells. Clerics and druids just know everything.
Just a subliminal bonus for being a divine caster, imo, balanced by having to adhere to a particular set of behaviors. Arcane casters may have to scrounge a bit for their spells, but they get to use 'em however they like without worrying about losing their abilities.
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The rule in the Core Rulebook is "wizards get all cantrips," which means that every new book with cantrips means wizards start with even more spells, and there are some here at Paizo who are uncomfortable with that. However, I personally see that as no different than a book with yet another 1st cleric or druid spell that all clerics miraculously gain access too as soon as the book is available, and cantrips are of such minor power that giving a caster extra options really isn't a big deal.
There's also the issue that each cantrip takes up one page in the spellbook. With enough new books with new cantrips, each wizard is going to need to lug around an extra spellbook just for his 0-level spells.
The core book discuses how divine casters invent and research new spells just like wizards,
Independent Research: A divine spellcaster can also research a spell independently, much as an arcane spellcaster can. Only the creator of such a spell can prepare and cast it, unless she decides to share it with others.
....so I don't assume new stuff is automatically avalable, just because divine casters pray for spells rather than have a spellbook. Instead, core book spells are "The Cannon" which everyone can get, while stuff from supplements may be available, maybe not, and maybe only by research, or by finding it in an adventure.
I don't know any reason why it shouldn't work the same for wizards, either - "all" cantrips means all core rulebook cantrips, i.e. All the common cantrips eveyrone knows - not necessarily every cantrip ever invented ever..
Could we get rid of that "wizards get all cantrips" crap and replace it with "wizards get all cantrips from core rulebook" when the next reprint is due and add more cantrips in future products?
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Canon and Cannon are two distinctly different things.
Also, I'm personally alright with divine casters knowing them all, since divine magic seems all and all worse off compared to arcane magic.
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Canon and Cannon are two distinctly different things.
I enjoy the dual n variety. Much less complex than the single n.
" ... There's also the issue that each cantrip takes up one page in the spellbook. With enough new books with new cantrips, each wizard is going to need to lug around an extra spellbook just for his 0-level spells. ..."
This means a new Wizard starts out with more then one quarter of his shiny new spell book bloated with Cantrips. Seriously?
If Scribing a Scroll of a Cantrip costs half the value of a 1st Level spell, couldn't the complexity of a Cantrip be captured on half of a page in a spell book?
@LazarX: The whole point of adding the paragraph is to make paizo create more cantrips.
Do you think that the people who write for this game are simple? Or that you're going to browbeat them with RAW text the way munchkins do with gutless DMs?
Paizo will create what it feels it needs to create, when it feels the need to create them. You want to push them off their planned roadmap, you're going to have to do a lot better than to try to trap them in text.
Chill mate. Guy was just throwing out a suggestion for how to get more official cantrips in print.
Ain't no one trying to trap no one else in text here, friend. Cantrips are just cool little perks, hardly game breaking levels of power. A couple new ones could be very fun, and people would probably enjoy them.