Sorcerer spell repertoire

[Lord Fyre]

The Raven Black wrote:

"If you have a spellbook, Learning a Spell lets you add the spell to your spellbook; if you prepare spells from a list, it's added to your list; if you have a spell repertoire, you can select it when you add or swap spells."

That is still a might confusing. Does this mean that they cannot use the "Learn a Spell" action to add spells (… in addition to the spells gained from leveling) to their repertoire?

[Ascalaphus]

Yeah, so to understand what that really means (for spontaneous casters):

- As a sorcerer of level X you can know only Y spells of level Z at a time. That's the price you pay for being spontaneous.

- You can select those spells from common spells.

Using this "Learn A Spell" activity, for spontaneous casters, adds the spell to the collection from which you may select when you have another opening to fill in your repertoire.

So this is something you would do if you ran into an uncommon spell during the adventure, then you'd Learn That Spell and if you got a success then when you level up and can pick a new spell to add to your repertoire, you're now able to choose the uncommon spell.

[Loreguard]

Ascalaphus wrote:

Yeah, so to understand what that really means (for spontaneous casters):

- As a sorcerer of level X you can know only Y spells of level Z at a time. That's the price you pay for being spontaneous.

- You can select those spells from common spells.

Using this "Learn A Spell" activity, for spontaneous casters, adds the spell to the collection from which you may select when you have another opening to fill in your repertoire.

So this is something you would do if you ran into an uncommon spell during the adventure, then you'd Learn That Spell and if you got a success then when you level up and can pick a new spell to add to your repertoire, you're now able to choose the uncommon spell.

I like to describe it as Learn a Spell adds to their Spells Known. Which is self evident for prepared casters, (they add it to the prepared list, and can prepare it in slots).

But for spontaneous, it is basically similar, it expands the list of spells that they can place into their repertoire. The repertoire is harder to change, thus less flexible, but the daily casting of the specific spells is more flexible if you have more than one.

The admitted downside of this use of terminology is that Spells Known was the old list of spells for a sorcerer which in Second Edition is now basically known as the Repertoire. I guess to avoid the collision with the old terminology, you could say Learned Spells instead of Known Spells.