Hi all,
Reading several previous posts regarding witches "feeding" scroll soups to their familiars to add new (Wizard) spells, I was wondering if a similar mechanic existed for Half-Elf Bonded Witches, allow me to illustrate:
My level 12 Half-Elf Bonded Winter Witch has acquired a high-powered Wizard's spellbook containing all Arcane spells in the Core rules up to Level 6 (RoTRL Part 4).
Given she has no familiar and relies on her bonded item (ring), what is the clear mechanic for the Bonded Witch to "add" spells from the acquired spellbook into her bonded item ? Would she be able to commune scrolls scribed from the spellbook into her bonded item (ie. akin to a familiar's scroll "soup") or is there another method of achieving this ?
Many thanks for all your pointers.
There is no mechanic for adding spells directly from a spellbook to a bonded witches bonded item. The spellbook is not a collection of scrolls, nor can the witch prepare spells from it. The bonded witch "can even add spells by learning them from scrolls in the same way". You need a scroll. You will have to find someone who CAN prepare spells from that spellbook and who then can scribe a scroll of that spell. You can THEN add the spell that the scroll contains to your bonded item (destroying the scroll in the process).
If it was instead a collection of scrolls you would then learn them the same way as a witch with a familiar would, per the bonded witch description:
A bonded witch starts with the same number of spells and gains new spells the same way as a witch, and can even add spells by learning them from scrolls in the same way, but a bonded witch cannot learn spells from another bonded item.
That said, as a GM I've allowed witches to feed wizard spell books to the familiar in the same way that they feed scrolls, simply because spell books are a common part of loot in APs and it's easier for me to just house rule that they can do that than it would be to redo the treasure lists. Talk to your GM to see if they feel the same.
That's great, thanks all. Scrolls it is...