Min/Max Boards

Quote from: deadkitten on February 12, 2017, 05:41:52 PM

Is there even a restriction anywhere that you have to be abke to cast the spell in order to scribe it into your spellbook?

Quote from: PHB57

At each new wizard level, she gains two new spells of any spell level or levels that she can cast (based on her new wizard level) for her spellbook. For example, when a wizard attains 5th level, she can cast 3rd-level spells. At this point, she can add two new 3rd-level spells to her spellbook, or one 2nd-level spell and one 3rd-level spell, or any combination of two spells between 1st and 3rd level. At any time, a wizard can also add spells found in other wizards’ spellbooks to her own (see Adding Spells to a Wizard’s Spellbook, page 178).

Quote from: RC160, the updated entry of PHB178

ADDING SPELLS TO A SPELLBOOK
Spellcasters who use spellbooks can add new spells to their spellbooks through several methods.

Gained Spells
Spellcasters who use spellbooks perform spell research between adventures. Each time such a caster attains a new level in the appropriate arcane spellcasting class, that spellcaster gains spells to add to the spellbook according to the class’s description and any restrictions from specialization. Spells so gained must be of spell levels the caster can cast. Spells gained in this way don’t have the time and money costs for spell’s copied or researched (see Writing a New Spell into a Spellbook and Researched Spells).

Copied Spells
Spellcasters who use spellbooks can add a spell to their book whenever they find one on a scroll or in another caster’s spellbook. The spell to be copied must be on the copier’s class spell list. No matter what the spell’s source, it must first be deciphered. Next, the decipherer must spend a day studying the spell. At the end of the day, if the decipherer can learn the spell, he makes a Spellcraft check (DC 15 + spell’s level). If the check succeeds, the spellcaster understands the spell and can copy it into a spellbook (see Writing a New Spell into a Spellbook). The process leaves a spellbook unharmed, but a spell successfully copied from a scroll disappears from that scroll. If the check fails, the spellcaster can’t understand or copy the spell. After such a failure, the decipherer can’t learn or copy that spell again until he gains another rank in Spellcraft. A spell that was being copied from a scroll doesn’t vanish from the scroll in this case. In most cases, wizards charge a fee for the privilege of copying spells from their spellbooks. This fee is usually equal to the spell’s level × 50 gp.

          Hateful Aura (Su): When the spiritualist reaches 7th level, as a swift action, the phantom can emit a 10-foot-radius aura that inflicts pain upon the minds of those who dare damage it or its master. Enemies within the aura that deal damage to the spiritualist or the phantom take an amount of damage equal to the phantom’s Charisma bonus. This is a mind-affecting pain effect. The phantom can use this ability in either ectoplasmic or incorporeal form.
 

Quote from: SorO_Lost on September 16, 2016, 11:31:41 AM

Quote from: RC

When a preexisting core book or supplement differs with the rules herein, Rules Compendium is meant to take precedence. ...
The D&D game assumes a specific order of rules application: General to specific to exception. A general rule is a basic guideline, but a more specific rule takes precedence when applied to the same activity.

Emphasis mine.

Which core book or supplement is the FAQ?

Versatile Spellcaster
( Races of the Dragon, p. 101)

[General]

You can use two lower-level spell slots to cast a spell one level higher.
Prerequisite
Ability to spontaneously cast spells,
Benefit
You can use two spell slots of the same level to cast a spell you know that is one level higher. For example, a sorcerer with this feat can expend two 2nd-level spell slots to cast any 3rd-level spell he knows.

Exploit Vestige (Su): At 2nd level, you learn how to use a bound vestige to boost your arcane spellcasting. With this ability, you can choose to forego gaining one of the vestige's granted abilities in order to gain one additional arcane spell slot per day of any level up to the highest you can cast. Thus, if you bind the vestige Dantalion (see page 28), you could give up the read thoughts ability he grants you in exchange for a bonus spell slot that day.
You decide which ability to give up before you make the binding check, and you can forego only one ability per day in this manner, even if you can bind multiple vestiges. Vestiges react poorly to your use of this ability, so you take a —5 penalty on your binding check. If you make a good pact despite this penalty, you gain a bonus spell slot in exchange for the ability you gave up. If you make a poor pact (that is, you fail your binding check), you do not gain the extra spell slot, and you still give up the designated ability for the day.
When you use this ability and make a good pact, you sever a portion of the bound vestige's awareness of the world that it would normally receive through you. Essentially, your binding amounts to a certain amount of trickery. The vestige being bound expects to be able to experience life through its binder, but when you make a good pact, you partially suppresses the benefit the vestige receives, making it uncomfortable and angry.

Oh, and this one is solid fucking gold.

Dragonkith requires that you pair off with a Dragon. Not a True Dragon, just a dragon. It's not a bad class for the party Fighter or whatever - it adds some defensive whatevers. But the real draw is 9th level.

Yes, that is Share Spells. Between you and your dragon pal. Who could be the party Dragonwrought Kobold Sorcerer.

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Integrated Weaponry: A robot that has one or more
technological weapons (such as a laser rifle or chain gun)
built into its body treats such weapons as natural attacks
and not manufactured weapons attacks, and cannot make
iterative attacks with these weapons. Integrated weaponry
can still be targeted by effects that target manufactured
weapons (such as magic weapon spells or sunder attempts),
but as a general rule it cannot be harvested for use outside
of the robot’s body once the robot is destroyed.
A robot is always proficient with its integrated
weapons. Integrated ranged weapons
don’t provoke attacks of opportunity
when fired in melee combat.

I'd love a laser that counts as a natural weapon, esp in 3.P. There's some ugly stuff you could download that, Feral Weapon Training + flurry being on the lower end of what you can do.

Amulet of might fists for a cheap way to add enhancement bonuses.