Magus : Knowledge Pool and Spellbooks - official ruling?

[wynlyndd]

i have a magus who just reached 7th level. I have been pouring over message boards looking for any official ruling before my GM and I have a discussion over what works for his campaign. Most posts seem a few years old but if I have missed something, please direct my reading.

Can the magus write down spells into his Spellbooks that he prepared via spending Arcane Pool points for his Knowledge Pool? Page 220 of the Core book seems to indicate that I can, but I know this has been discussed to death.

[kestral287]

I'm fairly certain that they can, on the basis of "they know the spell, and nothing about Knowledge Pool dictates that they can't write it down". There has not, to my knowledge, been any official word on the subject though.

That said, I would definitely talk to my GM before I tried to use Knowledge Pool this way. It's kind of cheesey, though it's slow and costs a not-insignificant number of your daily resources.

[wynlyndd]

Definitely going to talk to my GM as he trumps everything. Since I still have to pay to write it into my book and it's a fairly low money campaign, he may not have much of an issue. Scrolls are rarely found in treasure so spell learning is fairly low as well and he may wish to preserve spell scarcity. Just seeking an official ruling before the discussion.

[Claxon]

You could probably right it down, but at the very least you still have to pay the cost to write it in your spell book. As a GM I would say that you still have the pay the cost as if you learned the spell from someone else's spellbook. Which is what you seem to be trying to get around.

There is no official ruling to my knowledge, because the only real issue here is the balance of making you pay for access to more spells. Whether it be in gold or in arcane points.

[wynlyndd]

I wholeheartily agree that I should pay to write it down at the least. Even a wizard has to do that.

While to some extent, I am circumventing research costs, odds of finding spells as treasure, excursions to magic bazaars, mostly I am circumventing time. As we are right now in a situation with what I think will prove to be little downtime, I won't be gaining much more than a couple of spells most likely.