Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Is being able to Scribe all spell levels in Wizard a bug or intended?

In another game that I played, my character was able to study briefly under a much more advanced practitioner; she learned a few formulae (they were alchemists, not wizards, but the same rules applied) that she was able to learn at the time, but the call of adventure and danger brought that down time to an end; her tutor bequeathed her a spare book that contained one formula for each level that she couldn't understand yet (so, 5th through 9th, in her case). It was a fun RP element to let her study and read these advanced formulae in her evenings and, when she reached the appropriate level, to finally be able to codify one into her own formula book as a formula that she now understood and could use. Having higher level spells, either in scrolls or in books, can still be played with in a fun way, and it makes more sense, really, than being able to copy them into your book in your own cipher, but not be able to cast them. To each their own, of course - I'm sure there are plenty of players out there who prefer the way the rules implied this to work before the errata corrected it, and it's perfectly cool for them to run their games that way! When we're talking about the way the rules formally and officially work, though, we have to refer to the most up to date publication, which includes the official errata.

As a curio, if you're interested in a little bit of under-the-hood, the original text was not entirely a mistake, per se, it was just not as clear as it was intended to be, and many of the issues and requests for official rulings that occurred between the first and second printing were part of what led to that errata being made to clarify. The original text spoke about spell slots, under the more simple assumption that, for a single-class wizard, they would only have spell slots for spell levels that they can prepare for anyway... and that for multi-class characters, the reference treating each caster class as a single class caster of the appropriate level for spell-related things should have been clear enough... as we found out, however, that was very clearly not the case: wiggle room was left there and many readers got the wrong impression of the intent, or deliberately argued the technicalities of the hair-split, and at the time they were not wrong for doing so! So, the errata was made to clarify the intent for how the system is meant to work, not to change how it did.