Originally Posted by Xel'lotath Tier
@Halycon Styxland

This is a bug. You can copy scrolls up to your spell slot level, but you shouldn't be able to prepare spells higher than your level.

Example: If I'm Cleric 10/Druid 2, I would still have access to lvl 6 slots, but I wouldn't be able to cast any level 6 spell, only upcast. Why would a Sorcerer 11/Wizard 1 be able to cast any wizard level 6 spell when they can't even cast anything above 1? Why can't I learn fireball from leveling up, but I can from a scroll? It doesn't make any sense.

Anyway here are the PHB rules.

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Spells Known and Prepared. You determine what spells you know and can prepare for each class individually, as if you were a single-classed member of that class. If you are a ranger 4/wizard 3, for example, you know three 1st-level ranger spells based on your levels in the ranger class. As 3rd-level wizard, you know three wizard cantrips, and your spellbook contains ten wizard spells, two of which (the two you gained when you reached 3rd level as a wizard) can be 2nd-level spells. If your Intelligence is 16, you can prepare six wizard spells from your spellbook.

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Copying a Spell into the Book. When you find a wizard spell of 1st level or higher, you can add it to your spellbook if it is of a level for which you have spell slots and if you can spare the time to decipher and copy it.

This means that a Sorcerer 11/Wizard 1 can learn up to level 6 spells from scrolls but they won't be able to cast any of them past 1.

This is technically correct maybe - but I figured it would make more sense to simply stop people from learning the spells 1) Because there isn't a point and 2) it's another layer to preventing the exploit.

I mean from a Lore perspective it's just weird as fuck to allow this. You are a Wizard level 1 - but you are carrying around a spellbook with level 6 spells, and you can't cast anything past a level 1 spell.

When we copy spells into our spellbook we are deciphering them in a way that our individual minds understand the magic around spells. it's just bizzarre to think that a Sorcerer who has a totally different way of understanding a spell would even be able to do that for a spell above the Wizard level they were comfortable with.

Last edited by Blackheifer; 02/10/23 11:40 PM.
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