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I know a wizard begins play with a spell book containing all cantrips and 3 first level spells but if you multiclass into it do you still get that or do you need to buy a spellbook + get 2 for levelling up?
Most of the time, I've seen it handled two ways:
1. The free spellbook is a class ability and you get it and the requisite spells for free when you multiclass into Wizard. The game is presumed to hand-wave it a bit... maybe you had it all along and were doodling in it until everything came together and "poof", you're a Wizard.
2. You need to buy a spellbook. Most of the time I've seen that you still get your full allotment of spells for free, just that you need to acquire the physical book.
Personally, I consider #1 to be RAW.
And there are a million and one other ways (at least as many ways as there are GMs) to handle this.
So, if you want to multi-class into Wizard, particularly if you're not sure how your GM is likely to react, I'd talk to the GM ahead of time.

Liam Warner |
Liam Warner wrote:You could choose not to have them.HangarFlying wrote:According to the PRD, there are 22 cantrips in the PFRPG. 20 of them are out of the CRB.Hmmm so right off the bat you've used up 25 + pages of your 50/100 page spellbook interesting. Thanks for the help.
Why? In the absence of a true spontaneous caster I'll grab every spell I can lay my paws on (why I don't play sorcerers although I love the inherent power aspect).

Durngrun Stonebreaker |

Durngrun Stonebreaker wrote:Why? In the absence of a true spontaneous caster I'll grab every spell I can lay my paws on (why I don't play sorcerers although I love the inherent power aspect).Liam Warner wrote:You could choose not to have them.HangarFlying wrote:According to the PRD, there are 22 cantrips in the PFRPG. 20 of them are out of the CRB.Hmmm so right off the bat you've used up 25 + pages of your 50/100 page spellbook interesting. Thanks for the help.
I thought you were concerned about the number of pages you were using. I rarely take more than ten cantrips when I play a wizard. You can only prepare four in one day (and I'm certainly not using my bonded item to cast one).

Liam Warner |
Liam Warner wrote:I thought you were concerned about the number of pages you were using. I rarely take more than ten cantrips when I play a wizard. You can only prepare four in one day (and I'm certainly not using my bonded item to cast one).Durngrun Stonebreaker wrote:Why? In the absence of a true spontaneous caster I'll grab every spell I can lay my paws on (why I don't play sorcerers although I love the inherent power aspect).Liam Warner wrote:You could choose not to have them.HangarFlying wrote:According to the PRD, there are 22 cantrips in the PFRPG. 20 of them are out of the CRB.Hmmm so right off the bat you've used up 25 + pages of your 50/100 page spellbook interesting. Thanks for the help.
More weight of spellbooks and difficulty in carrying them. I much prefer spontaneous casters (which as I said I don't classify the sorcerer) but if I have to go wizard I'll take every spell I can.