Thassilonian Specialist, Prohibited School Question


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I was hoping to get some opinions and clarification on how the prohibited school was worded. In the added restrictions it says that the specialist cannot prepare a spell from a prohibited school, but then has a dash mentioning that they are not considered on his class spell list. My question was what occurs if he gets one added to his spell list? For example going into Magaambyann Arcanist you gain access to all the spells from the good domain, which could add spells of your prohibited school back onto the wizard's spell list.

Inner Sea Magic pg. 17 wrote:
Restrictions: A Thassilonian specialist does not get to customize his choice for opposition schools—that choice is selected for him when he chooses his specialization. These restrictions are more significant than those most wizards follow, and are known as prohibited schools. A Thassilonian wizard can never prepare a spell that is in one of his prohibited schools—he treats these spells as if they were not on the wizard spell list. If using a spell trigger or spell completion item to cast a spell from one of his prohibited schools, he must use the Use Magic Device skill to do so.

My thought is that adding it to your class list means it can be prepared and used without UMD, but takes two slots to prepare since it never replaces the actual opposition school feature. I'm uncertain though and was hoping someone here might know more about it.


I think the never prepare part overrides everything else.


I agree with CWheezy.
once you go thassilonian specialist, you permanently lose access to the 2 opposition schools

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Well not sure that would affect the umd part at all. My big confusion is the dash though. If it was a period I completely agree but the way it is connected looks more like an explanation of why.


Any prestige class that interacts with wizard would likely be subject to the prohibited school restriction. If he were a multiclass cleric however, his cleric spells would be unaffected (Or so I'd like to believe.)

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