Cool. Definitely workable, thanks. I’ll have to figure out what to do so he can spam healing without those feats – the fact that people in this party can heal themselves is not really relevant to the choices Blisss would make as he grew up – but the flexibility with magic items should cover it.
As to scrolls and learning from them flexibly – I’ve got an idea to try on you: Rather than listing an exhaustive list… which would be advantageous to do but much too exhausting!... I’ll have a short starter list, and the assumption that Blisss has collected a scroll of all the common spells at one time or another over the past thousands of years he’s been watching, dreaming, and helping those around him. What are the common spells? Maybe whatever is in d20SRD, or D&DWiki. Or some other source(s), whatever. Then there are the uncommon and rare spells, ones the players know are in other sources but Blisss may not have run across; he’d have a percentile chance to have one of those, or maybe has to make a DC on Knowledge Arcana that gets more difficult with the Spell Level. So it’s pretty simple: He has a core list, and whenever he wants to learn something not on the core list, he checks his spell library and it’s there… or not.
As backstory that gives him a great incentive to go to the library, go adventuring, hang out with dangerous people: because it gives him access to new spellbooks and spell experiences. If he does find a spellbook he can check it for new things, or simply if someone hits him with a spell he’s never experienced, he has a chance of writing it down and adding a new scroll to his library. What he values in his hoard are new ways to be helpful, so practically any spell is of interest – if it’s helpful, good; if it’s harmful, good to be ready to counterspell it.
I’m thinking about taking him in the direction of magic defender, someone who knows how to nullify harmful magical stuff to keep his friends safe. Definitely in character!!
What do you think of the scroll library idea to save copy/pasting a ridiculously long list? And the mechanism? Suggestions?