Can a Wizard with Alchemical Affinity use a Formula Alembic?


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Can wizard with: Alchemical Affinity use a Formula Alembic to copy spells into his spellbook from a potion as long as it is on the Wizard spell list?

Alchemical Affinity: 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.**

Formula Alembic: This magically-augmented alchemical device distills a potion or alchemist extract into the **knowledge needed to create its formula.** By gently heating a potion or extract in the alembic for 1 hour, the device creates a few drops of magical liquid. If consumed by an alchemist, this liquid gives him knowledge of the potion’s or extract’s formula, as if it were an extract he recorded in his formula book. This knowledge lasts for 24 hours. **He may scribe this formula in his formula book in the normal fashion.**

Using the alembic does not harm the potion, but the process makes it nearly boiling hot (it cools normally). The alembic can only distill the knowledge of formulas on the alchemist extract list (for example, it cannot turn a potion of a cleric-only spell into something an alchemist can learn).


Technically, no, since it states that "an alchemist can" do it. Even with Alchemical Affinity, a wizard is not an alchemist.

A lot of GMs would probably let it slide though.

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