Witch learning spells?

[Kevin B]

Can a Witch teach its familiar spells from a spellbook that the Witch finds or does it have to be from a scroll?

A character found a spellbook at the end of a scenario and wants to learn them...what is the right way to do that?

[Dhenn]

It doesn't seem that they can. However, you can access the familiars of other Society witches in your off time. See here for a bit of discussion. It costs half the fee that it would take to scribe the spell [normally=10*(Spell Level)^2], which is pretty reasonable, especially as you can take 10 on the spellcraft checks, which makes failure almost impossible.

[Kevin B]

Thanks!

["Auntie" Baltwin]

Daniel Hennessey wrote:

It doesn't seem that they can. However, you can access the familiars of other Society witches in your off time. See here for a bit of discussion. It costs half the fee that it would take to scribe the spell [normally=10*(Spell Level)^2], which is pretty reasonable, especially as you can take 10 on the spellcraft checks, which makes failure almost impossible.

and (for witches) there is no actual cost to scribe the spell... so it would be better to say... "Access costs half the fee that it would take a wizard to scribe the spell to his spellbook [normally=10*(Spell Level)^2]".

Off the top of my head, without a book in front of me, I am not sure how Component Costs (Material Components and/or Foci) are addressed.

Just be sure to remember the spellcraft check. I have actually encountered more than one Wizard/Witch with no ranks in Spellcraft... and the DC is 15 plus spell level... (normally not a problem, but just check to see what a Take 10 nets you).

[TriShadow]

Let's say someone had a certain faerie dragon they picked up as a familiar along the way <wink>. If that familiar had caster levels, would that familiar gain access to spells learned and be able to cast them as well?

Kind of need an answer actually.

[BigNorseWolf]

TriShadow wrote:

Let's say someone had a certain faerie dragon they picked up as a familiar along the way <wink>. If that familiar had caster levels, would that familiar gain access to spells learned and be able to cast them as well?

Kind of need an answer actually.

Nope. Sorcerer spells known and spells known as a familiar are different things

[Serisan]

TriShadow wrote:

Let's say someone had a certain faerie dragon they picked up as a familiar along the way <wink>. If that familiar had caster levels, would that familiar gain access to spells learned and be able to cast them as well?

Kind of need an answer actually.

No. While the faerie dragon casts "as a 3rd level sorceror," this doesn't give any access to the spell it stores for the witch.

[FLite]

Which is a good thing. Because if the witch's spell pool and its sorcerer pool were the same thing, the witch could only know as many spells as a sorcerer, and that would not be fun.

[TriShadow]

That was faster that expected! It makes makes sense that they should be separate, but I could see where someone might argue to the counter. Is this explicit somewhere?