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Greeting all. My party finally finished book 1 of this wonderfully disturbing adventure. so, the resident part wizard, who had been hoping to find a spell book to copy from with very little luck outside some divine scrolls and the Scroll of Summon Monster III, they found after defeating Zandulus. Upon finding the Chain of Nights and reading through it- he finds the spells stored within- and asked if he could copy the spells, albeit how limited they are.
My question is- Is the Chain of Nights a spellbook that he can copy from, or non?
In my game i clearly stated it as a spellbook. But because the spells in it where to high for the players to cast, they stored it away for later.
I think it's pretty clearly intended to be a spellbook for the purposes of copying spells or "borrowing spells" from it. My group had only spontaneous casters, so I was prepared to treat those spells in my game as a sort of "replenishing scroll" that would recover an expended spell after so much time... but then my players decided not to read the book thoroughly right away and then forgot about it. :\
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Umm, as handout calls it, "The Chain of Nights, a near-legendary collection of psycho-arcane studies and treatments focused on dreaming."
In otherword, its not a spellbook, its tome that has collection of magical psychological treatments with the dream focus <_< Like, at most maybe it has multiple rituals
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In otherword, its not a spellbook, its tome that has collection of magical psychological treatments with the dream focus <_< Like, at most maybe it has multiple rituals
How do you reconcile this with the list of spells contained in the book? If it's not a spellbook, how and why does it contain spells that are distinct from rituals? Are they scrolls?
While the book also contains non-magical information, I believe the intention is that it is functionally a spellbook.
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In otherword, its not a spellbook, its tome that has collection of magical psychological treatments with the dream focus <_< Like, at most maybe it has multiple ritualsHow do you reconcile this with the list of spells contained in the book? If it's not a spellbook, how and why does it contain spells that are distinct from rituals? Are they scrolls?
While the book also contains non-magical information, I believe the intention is that it is functionally a spellbook.
Does book have to be a "spellbook" to contain spells though?
I mean, point is, you can't copy spells TO it because its already "full". Sure it has few spells in it, but flavor wise its not really a "spellbook".
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In otherword, its not a spellbook, its tome that has collection of magical psychological treatments with the dream focus <_< Like, at most maybe it has multiple ritualsHow do you reconcile this with the list of spells contained in the book? If it's not a spellbook, how and why does it contain spells that are distinct from rituals? Are they scrolls?
While the book also contains non-magical information, I believe the intention is that it is functionally a spellbook.
Does book have to be a "spellbook" to contain spells though?
I mean, point is, you can't copy spells TO it because its already "full". Sure it has few spells in it, but flavor wise its not really a "spellbook".
I suspect your criteria for the meaning of spellbook are different to mine. I take spellbook to mean any book a prepared caster could prepare spells from. You seem to mean spellbook as such a book with empty pages? So, if a caster fills up one volume of his spelbook, then you no longer consider it a spellbook? Or are you just pointing out it can't have more added to it?
Either way, again, 'contains spells' certainly seems to indicate there are spells recorded in the book. And there isn't much purpose to having spells recorded apart from copying them elsewhere, or preparing from them.