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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]]
  * [[.:Light]]
  * [[.:purify_food_and_drink]]
  * [[.:Read Magic]]

===== 1st Level =====
  * [[.:Bane]]
  * [[.:Bless]]
  * [[.:Charm Person]]
  * [[.:Comprehend Languages]]
  * [[.:Cure Light Wounds]]
  * [[.:Detect Alignment]]
  * [[.:Hold Portal]]
  * [[.:Inflict Light Wounds]]
  * [[.:Magic Missile]]
  * [[.:Protection from Alignment]]
  * [[.:Shield]]
  * [[.:Silent Image]]
  * [[.:Sleep]]
  * [[.:Summon Monster#summon_monster_i|Summon Monster I]]
  * [[.:Ventriloquism]]

===== 2nd Level =====
  * [[.:Arcane Lock]]
  * [[.:Bull's Strength]] 
  * [[.:Continual Flame]]
  * [[.:Cure Moderate Wounds]]
  * [[.:Darkness]]
  * [[.:Detect Alignment]]
  * [[.:Detect Thoughts]]
  * [[.: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 =====
  * [[.:bestow curse]]
  * [[.:clairaudience_clairvoyance]]
  * [[.:cure serious wounds]]
  * [[.:Dispel Magic]]
  * [[.:Explosive Runes]]
  * [[.:Fireball]]
  * [[.:Fly]]
  * [[.:Haste]]
  * [[.:Hold Person]]
  * [[.:inflict serious wounds]]
  * [[.:Invisibility Sphere]]
  * [[.:Lightning Bolt]]
  * [[.:Magic Circle]]
  * [[.:Prayer]]
  * [[.:Protection from Normal Missiles]]
  * [[.:remove curse]]
  * [[.:remove disease]]
  * [[.:Rope Trick]]
  * [[.:Slow]]
  * [[.:Speak with Dead]]
  * [[.:Suggestion]]
  * [[.:Summon Monster#summon_monster_iii|Summon Monster III]]
  * [[.:Water Breathing]]