Specialist Wizards and spells added to spellbooks per level

[Patrick "Varg" Meade]

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If you specialize in an arcane school, rather than studying each school equally (as universalists do), you gain an extra spell slot for each level of spell you can cast. You can prepare only spells of your chosen arcane school in these extra slots. In addition, you can prepare an extra cantrip of your chosen school. You also add another arcane spell of your chosen school to your spellbook.

- Page 207 2E CRB "Arcane Schools"

I'd like to check my understanding of the extra spell you get in your book for specialists of a school. Is this a single spell during character creation? Or a single spell at any time? A spell each time you level? Or a spell each time you get a new level of spell? I think what would have been clearer is:

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You also add a 6th 1st level arcane spell, which must be of your chosen school, to your spellbook."

-or-

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You also add a 3rd arcane spell, which must be of your chosen school, to your spellbook each time you level."

-or-

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You also add another arcane spell of your chosen school to your spellbook for each level of spell you can cast."

-or even-

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You may add a single arcane spell of your chosen school to your spellbook , of a spell level you can cast, but this spell may be chosen at any level (you could save this until 17th level to gain an extra 9th level spell)."

In support of one of the middle two options (more than just a single additional spell, whether 1st level or any level), the first sentence on Page 204 states:

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You gain additional spells and spell slots for spells of your school.

So, it should be multiple extra spells, I'm just not sure how many. Does a 20th level Specialist Wizard get 9 or 10 extra spells? Or 20?

[Blave]

You are completely overthinking this.

Check the description of the individual schools. They tell you to add one 1st level spel of your school to your spellbook. That's it. Likewise, the spellbook feature says you get 2 spells per level with no mention if any additional ones for school.

So you get 1 first level spell of your school added to your spellbook when you choose to specialize (I.e. at level 1).

The "multiple" spells in your last quote probably refer to that one spell added to your spell book and the focus power you get from your school since wizard focus powers are cled "School Spells".

[Patrick "Varg" Meade]

Blave wrote:

You are completely overthinking this.

::facepalm:: Not the first time, likely not the last. Thanks Blave.