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 ====== Arcane Spells ======
+===== Preparing Spells =====
+A wizard's level limits the number of spells the wizards can prepare and cast.
+A wizard's high Intelligence score might allow the wizard to prepare a few
+extra spells. The wizard can prepare the same spell more than once, but each
+preparation counts as one spell toward the wizard's daily limit.  To do so,
+the wizard must have an Intelligence score of at least 10 plus the spell's
+level.
+**Rest:** To prepare daily spells a wizard must first sleep for 8 hours. The
+wizard does not have to slumber for every minute of the time, but must refrain
+from movement, combat, spellcasting, skill use, conversation, or any other
+fairly demanding physical or mental task during the rest period. If the
+wizard's rest is interrupted, each interruption adds 1 hour to the total
+amount of time the wizard has to rest in order to clear his or her mind, and
+the wizard must have at least 1 hour of rest immediately prior to preparing
+spells. If the wizard does not need to sleep for some reason, the character
+still must have 8 hours of restful calm before preparing any spells.
+**Recent Casting Limit/Rest Interruptions:** When the wizard prepares spells
+for the coming day, all spells the wizard has cast within the last 8 hours
+count against the wizard's daily limit.
+**Preparation Environment:** To prepare any spell, the wizard must have enough
+peace, quiet, and comfort to allow for proper concentration. The wizard's
+surroundings must be free from overt distractions, such as combat nearby or
+other loud noises. Exposure to inclement weather prevents the necessary
+concentration, as does any injury or failed saving throw the character might
+suffer while studying. Wizards also must have access to their spellbooks to
+study from and sufficient light to read them by.
+**One exception:** A wizard can prepare a read magic spell even without a
+spellbook.
+**Spell Preparation Time:** After resting, a wizard must study his or her
+spellbook to prepare any spells that day. If the wizard wants to prepare all
+the wizard's spells, the process takes 1 hour. Preparing some smaller portion
+of the wizard's daily capacity takes a proportionally smaller amount of time,
+but always at least 15 minutes.
+**Spell Selection and Preparation:** Until the character prepares spells from
+the character's spellbook, the only spells a wizard has available to cast are
+the ones that the character already had prepared from the previous day and has
+not yet used. During the study period, a wizard chooses which spells to
+prepare.  If a wizard already has spells prepared (from the previous day) that
+have not been cast, the character can abandon some or all of them to make room
+for new spells.
+When preparing spells for the day, the wizard can leave some spell slots open.
+Later during that day, the wizard can repeat the preparation process as often
+as the character likes, time and circumstances permitting. During these extra
+sessions of preparation, a wizard can fill these unused spell slots. The
+character cannot, however, abandon a previously prepared spell to replace it
+with another one or fill a slot that is empty because the wizard has cast a
+spell in the meantime. That sort of preparation can only be done during the
+first study period after resting. Like the first session of the day, this
+preparation takes at least 15 minutes, and it takes longer if the wizard
+prepares more than one-quarter of the wizard's spells.
+**Prepared Spell Retention:** Once a wizard prepares a spell, it remains in
+the character's mind until the character triggers it (or until the character
+abandons it). Upon casting, the spell is purged from the character's mind.
+Certain other events, such as the effects of magic items or special attacks
+from monsters, can wipe a prepared spell from a character's mind.
+**Death and Prepared Spell Retention:** If the character dies, all spells
+stored in the character's mind are wiped away.
+===== Arcane Magical Writings =====
+To decipher an arcane magical writing (such as a single spell in written form
+in another's spellbook or on a scroll), a character must make a successful
+[[..:skills:Spellcraft]] check (DC 20 + the spell's level). If the skill check
+fails, the character cannot attempt to read that particular spell until the
+next day. A read magic spell automatically deciphers a magical writing without
+a skill check. If the person who created the magical writing is on hand to
+help the reader, success is also automatic.
+Once a character deciphers a particular magical writing, the character does
+not need to decipher it again. Deciphering a magical writing allows the reader
+to identify the spell and gives some idea of its effects (as explained in the
+spell description). If the magical writing was a scroll and the reader can
+cast arcane spells, the character can attempt to use the scroll.
+===== Wizard Spells and Borrowed Spellbooks =====
+A wizard can use a borrowed spellbook to prepare a spell the character already
+knows and has recorded in the character's own spellbook, but preparation
+success is not assured. First, the wizard must decipher the writing in the
+book (see [[#Arcane Magical Writings]], above). Once a spell from another
+spellcaster's book is deciphered, the reader must make a successful
+[[..:skills:Spellcraft]] check (DC 15 + spell's level) to prepare the spell.
+If the check succeeds, the wizard can prepare the spell. The wizard must
+repeat the check to prepare the spell again, no matter how many times the
+character has prepared the spell before. If the check fails, the character
+cannot try to prepare the spell from the same source again until the next day.
+(However, as explained above, the character does not need to repeat a check to
+decipher the writing.)
+===== Adding Spells to a Wizard's Spellbook =====
+Wizards can add new spells to their spellbooks through several methods. If a
+wizard has chosen to specialize in a school of magic, the wizard can learn
+spells only from schools the character can cast.
+**Spells Copied from Another's Spellbook or a Scroll:** A wizard can also add
+spells to the wizard's spellbook whenever the wizard encounters a new spell on
+a magic scroll or in another wizard's spellbook. No matter what the spell's
+source, the character must first decipher the magical writing (see
+[[#Arcane Magical Writings]], above). Next, the wizard must spend a day
+studying the spell. At the end of the day, the character must make a
+[[..:skills:Spellcraft]] check (DC 15 + spell's level). A wizard who has
+specialized in a school of spells gains a +2 bonus to the check if the new
+spell is from the character's specialty school. The character cannot, however,
+learn any spells from the character’s prohibited schools.
+If the check succeeds, the wizard understands the spell and can copy it into
+the character's spellbook (see [[#Writing a New Spell into a Spellbook]],
+below). The process leaves a spellbook that was copied from unharmed, but a
+spell successfully copied from a magic scroll disappears from the scroll.
+If the check fails, the wizard cannot understand the spell and cannot attempt
+to learn it again, even if the character studies it from another source, until
+the character gains another rank in [[..:skills:Spellcraft]]. If the check
+fails, the character cannot copy the spell from another's spellbook, and the
+spell does not vanish from the scroll.
+**Independent Research:** A wizard also can research a spell independently,
+duplicating an existing spell or creating an entirely new one.
+===== Writing a New Spell into a Spellbook =====
+Once a wizard understands a new spell, the wizard can record it into his or
+her spellbook.
+**Time:** The process requires 1 day plus 1 additional day per spell level.
+Zero-level spells require 1 day.
+**Space in the Spellbook:** A spell takes up 2 pages of the spellbook per
+spell level. A 0-level spell takes a single page. A spellbook has 100 pages.
+**Materials and Costs:** Materials for writing the spell cost 100 sp per page.
+Note that a wizard does not have to pay these costs in time or gold for the
+spells gained for free at each new level. The wizard adds these to the
+wizard's spellbook as part of the wizard’s ongoing research.
+===== Replacing and Copying Spellbooks =====
+A wizard can use the procedure for learning a spell to reconstruct a lost
+spellbook. If the character already has a particular spell prepared, the
+character can write it directly into a new book at a cost of 100 sp per page
+(as noted in [[#Writing a New Spell into a Spellbook]]). The process wipes the
+prepared spell from the character's mind, just as casting it would. If the
+character does not have the spell prepared, the character can prepare it from
+a borrowed spellbook and then write it into a new book.
+Duplicating an existing spellbook uses the same procedure as replacing it,
+except that the time requirement and cost per page are halved.
+===== Spellcasters Who Are Not Wizards =====
+Some spellcasters do not have spellbooks and do not prepare spells. Such a
+character's level limits the number of spells the character can cast.
+**Daily Readying of Spells:** Each day these characters need 8 hours of rest
+(just like a wizard), after which they spend 15 minutes concentrating. Without
+such a period of rest the character does not regain the spell slots used up
+the day before.
+**Recent Casting Limit:** As with wizards, any spells cast within the last 8
+hours count against the character's daily limit.
+**Adding Spells to a Sorcerer's Repertoire:** Most spellcasters that do not
+prepare spells like wizards gain new spells each time they attain new
+experience levels and never gain spells any other way.
 ===== 0th Level =====
   * [[.:Detect Magic]]
-  * [[.:Read Magic]]
   * [[.:Light]]
+  * [[.:purify_food_and_drink]]
+  * [[.:Read Magic]]
 ===== 1st Level =====
-  * [[.:Hold Portal]]
+  * [[.:Bane]]
+  * [[.:Bless]]
+  * [[.:Charm Person]]
   * [[.:Comprehend Languages]]
+  * [[.:Cure Light Wounds]]
+  * [[.:Detect Alignment]]
+  * [[.:Hold Portal]]
+  * [[.:Inflict Light Wounds]]
+  * [[.:Magic Missile]]
   * [[.:Protection from Alignment]]
-  * [[.:Charm Person]]
+  * [[.:Shield]]
-  * [[.:Sleep]]
   * [[.:Silent Image]]
+  * [[.:Sleep]]
+  * [[.:Summon Monster#summon_monster_i|Summon Monster I]]
+  * [[.:Ventriloquism]]
 ===== 2nd Level =====
-  * [[.:See Invisibility]]
-  * [[.:Levitate]]
-  * [[.:Minor Image]]
-  * [[.:Locate Object]]
-  * [[.:Invisibility]]
   * [[.:Arcane Lock]]
+  * [[.:Bull's Strength]]
+  * [[.:Continual Flame]]
+  * [[.:Cure Moderate Wounds]]
+  * [[.:Darkness]]
   * [[.:Detect Alignment]]
   * [[.:Detect Thoughts]]
-  * [[.:Continual Flame]]
+  * [[.:Find Traps]]
+  * [[.:Hold Person]]
+  * [[.:Inflict Moderate Wounds]]
+  * [[.:Invisibility]]
   * [[.:Knock]]
+  * [[.:Levitate]]
+  * [[.:Locate Object]]
+  * [[.:Magic Mouth]]
+  * [[.:Minor Image]]
+  * [[.:Mirror Image]]
+  * [[.:Pyrotechnics]]
+  * [[.:See Invisibility]]
+  * [[.:Silence]]
+  * [[.:Speak with Animals]]
+  * [[.:Summon Monster#summon_monster_ii|Summon Monster II]]
+  * [[.:Web]]
 ===== 3rd Level =====
-  * [[.:Fly]]
+  * [[.:bestow curse]]
-  * [[.:Hold Person]]
-  * [[.:Dispel Magic]]
   * [[.:clairaudience_clairvoyance]]
+  * [[.:cure serious wounds]]
+  * [[.:Dispel Magic]]
+  * [[.:Explosive Runes]]
   * [[.:Fireball]]
+  * [[.:Fly]]
+  * [[.:Haste]]
+  * [[.:Hold Person]]
+  * [[.:inflict serious wounds]]
+  * [[.:Invisibility Sphere]]
   * [[.:Lightning Bolt]]
   * [[.:Magic Circle]]
-  * [[.:Invisibility Sphere]]
+  * [[.:Prayer]]
+  * [[.:Protection from Normal Missiles]]
+  * [[.:remove curse]]
+  * [[.:remove disease]]
+  * [[.:Rope Trick]]
   * [[.:Slow]]
-  * [[.:Haste]]
+  * [[.:Speak with Dead]]
-  * [[.:Protection from Normal Missiles]]
+  * [[.:Suggestion]]
+  * [[.:Summon Monster#summon_monster_iii|Summon Monster III]]
   * [[.:Water Breathing]]