Alchemical Affinity- Does it enable a wizard to cast healing spells?


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After reading the wizard discovery lists on the Archives of Nethys web site, I came upon the Alchemical Affinity discovery (see the spoiler below). In addition to the caster level boost it provides to certain spells, wizards with this discovery can copy spells from an alchemist's formula book into their spell book. Since an alchemist has access to multiple healing and defensive spells of 6th level or less, does that mean that a wizard who takes this discovery would be able to learn healing spells?

Alchemical Affinity (Magical Marketplace pg. 18 (Amazon)):
[PFS Legal] Alchemical Affinity (Magical Marketplace pg. 18 (Amazon)): Having studied alongside alchemists, you’ve learned to use their methodologies to enhance your spellcraft. Whenever you cast a spell that appears on both the wizard and alchemist spell lists, you treat your caster level as 1 higher than normal and the save DC of such spells increases by 1. Additionally, you may copy spells from an alchemist’s formula book into your spellbook just as you could with another wizard’s spellbook. You must be at least a 5th-level wizard to select this discovery.

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Additionally, you may copy spells from an alchemist’s formula book into your spellbook just as you could with another wizard’s spellbook.

You can only copy a spell that appears on the Wizard spell list because that is all you could with a wizard's book.

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You can't cast spells that don't exist on your class spell list without an effect or ability that says it is added to your class spell list and a wizard's spellbook isn't his class spell list.


Morgan Champion wrote:

After reading the wizard discovery lists on the Archives of Nethys web site, I came upon the Alchemical Affinity discovery (see the spoiler below). In addition to the caster level boost it provides to certain spells, wizards with this discovery can copy spells from an alchemist's formula book into their spell book. Since an alchemist has access to multiple healing and defensive spells of 6th level or less, does that mean that a wizard who takes this discovery would be able to learn healing spells?

** spoiler omitted **

Geeze, is Infernal Healing not good enough for you, like everyone else?

*grumble, grumble* Give wizards access to healing spells as it is, isn't good enough for some folks, back in my day wizards never got any kind of healing *grumble, grumble*


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thegreenteagamer wrote:
Morgan Champion wrote:

After reading the wizard discovery lists on the Archives of Nethys web site, I came upon the Alchemical Affinity discovery (see the spoiler below). In addition to the caster level boost it provides to certain spells, wizards with this discovery can copy spells from an alchemist's formula book into their spell book. Since an alchemist has access to multiple healing and defensive spells of 6th level or less, does that mean that a wizard who takes this discovery would be able to learn healing spells?

** spoiler omitted **

Geeze, is Infernal Healing not good enough for you, like everyone else?

*grumble, grumble* Give wizards access to healing spells as it is, isn't good enough for some folks, back in my day wizards never got any kind of healing *grumble, grumble*

Are those darn goblin kids skateboarding in front of your house again?


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graystone wrote:
thegreenteagamer wrote:
Morgan Champion wrote:

After reading the wizard discovery lists on the Archives of Nethys web site, I came upon the Alchemical Affinity discovery (see the spoiler below). In addition to the caster level boost it provides to certain spells, wizards with this discovery can copy spells from an alchemist's formula book into their spell book. Since an alchemist has access to multiple healing and defensive spells of 6th level or less, does that mean that a wizard who takes this discovery would be able to learn healing spells?

** spoiler omitted **

Geeze, is Infernal Healing not good enough for you, like everyone else?

*grumble, grumble* Give wizards access to healing spells as it is, isn't good enough for some folks, back in my day wizards never got any kind of healing *grumble, grumble*

Are those darn goblin kids skateboarding in front of your house again?

Don't get me started on those whippersnappers!

You kids today, you don't appreciate how we had it. And when I was a kid, we went up-level, both ways, through the snow! And elf was a class, and we liked it that way!

You see, I wore an onion in my belt, because it was the style at the time. Back in those days, silver pieces had bees on them. "Gimme 10 bees for a gp", we'd say, of course to catch the ferry to Port Peril, we would, which back in those days was called Port Not Too Dangerous Yet, which none of us understood at the time, because we all wondered when it would be dangerous. Of course, that was before Calistira adopted the wasp as her symbol, and when she did, boy were we confused, because you see, you'd only get yourself two stings-of-the-wasp for a gp, so the conversion rate was a little off, and of course we'd say it's five bees a sting, but only if your stinger is strong, we would.

Now you see, this was before them dirty orcs started inbreeding with us good humans. Don't get me wrong, I know there's a few good orcs out there, got a daughter married to an orc, but that's the exception, not the rule, and I'm still waiting till he hurts her...and elves...well, I just don't trust them shifty folk, no no, because...well, you see, back in our days, an elf was a class, and we liked it that way! You see, I wore an onion in my belt, because...


thegreenteagamer wrote:
graystone wrote:
thegreenteagamer wrote:
Morgan Champion wrote:

After reading the wizard discovery lists on the Archives of Nethys web site, I came upon the Alchemical Affinity discovery (see the spoiler below). In addition to the caster level boost it provides to certain spells, wizards with this discovery can copy spells from an alchemist's formula book into their spell book. Since an alchemist has access to multiple healing and defensive spells of 6th level or less, does that mean that a wizard who takes this discovery would be able to learn healing spells?

** spoiler omitted **

Geeze, is Infernal Healing not good enough for you, like everyone else?

*grumble, grumble* Give wizards access to healing spells as it is, isn't good enough for some folks, back in my day wizards never got any kind of healing *grumble, grumble*

Are those darn goblin kids skateboarding in front of your house again?

Don't get me started on those whippersnappers!

You kids today, you don't appreciate how we had it. And when I was a kid, we went up-level, both ways, through the snow! And elf was a class, and we liked it that way!

You see, I wore an onion in my belt, because it was the style at the time. Back in those days, silver pieces had bees on them. "Gimme 10 bees for a gp", we'd say, of course to catch the ferry to Port Peril, we would, which back in those days was called Port Not Too Dangerous Yet, which none of us understood at the time, because we all wondered when it would be dangerous. Of course, that was before Calistira adopted the wasp as her symbol, and when she did, boy were we confused, because you see, you'd only get yourself two stings-of-the-wasp for a gp, so the conversion rate was a little off, and of course we'd say it's five bees a sting, but only if your stinger is strong, we would.

Now you see, this was before them dirty orcs started inbreeding with us good humans. Don't get me wrong, I know there's a few good orcs out there, got a daughter...

You, good sir, have won the thread.

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...back in your day, wasn't it 20sp to the gp? :)


LOL I'll meet you at Country Kitchen Buffet for breakfast. ;)


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back in my day we had electrum

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