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How many wizard spells exist?
« on: February 05, 2012, 06:53:09 AM »
Across all official material, campaign specific and dragon included.  I'm trying to figure out how many blessed books would be required to have arbitrary access to every spell. 

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Re: How many wizard spells exist?
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2012, 10:43:42 AM »
Get a Tome of Ancient Lore, 1 Blessed Book and use secret page to reuse the pages of the BB.  So... 34000ish gold. 

This is not just every Wizard spell but every Arcane spell ever, that includes Arcane versions of every Divine spell.
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Re: How many wizard spells exist?
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2012, 12:27:30 PM »
I'm working on a spell compendium of my own, and there's probably a good 1000+ wizard spells
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Re: How many wizard spells exist?
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2012, 11:28:40 PM »
I'm trying to avoid the secret page trick, however the tome will be a good way to get access to all of the spells.  I also realized that I would need to know how many spells there are for each level.  Would 10 blessed books would be enough?
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Re: How many wizard spells exist?
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2012, 01:31:56 AM »
a 2 level dip in geometer lets you fit a spell of any level on 1 page

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Re: How many wizard spells exist?
« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2012, 05:54:50 AM »
Good idea, then I could probably get away with 2.
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Re: How many wizard spells exist?
« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2012, 04:02:38 PM »
Looking at http://dnd.freeminded.org/tables/DnD3.5Index-Spells-Summaries.pdf .  It calls itself a "complete list", but since it's dated April 2005, it may not be.  A list of sources can be found at the end of the pdf.  I counted by hand, so the count may be off because of that too.  Still, it should get you in the right ballpark.

level 0 - 33 spells - 33 pages
level 1 - 82 spells - 82 pages
level 2 - 96 spells - 192 pages
level 3 - 95 spells - 285 pages
level 4 - 93 spells - 372 pages
level 5 - 88 spells - 440 pages
level 6 - 80 spells - 480 pages
level 7 - 59 spells - 413 pages
level 8 - 57 spells - 456 pages
level 9 - 45 spells - 405 pages
epic - not listed

total number of spells = 728
total number of pages = 3158

so it looks like you're looking at 4 blessed books, with plenty of room leftover for spells not included in the list.

I just checked - it does not include sanctified spells, though the pdf lists those spells and some others it skipped near the end of the pdf (but not by level, so I can't easily include them).

Edit: just to clear, these are wizard/sorceror spells only, not all arcane spells.
« Last Edit: February 06, 2012, 04:07:46 PM by kitep »

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Re: How many wizard spells exist?
« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2012, 11:07:41 PM »
Oh wow, thanks a bunch!  These will help a lot.
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