Spellcasting Rules & Restrictions

Magic in this campaign follows the official rules with a few unique world-specific mechanics regarding recovery, coordination, acceleration and spellpoints.

Permitted Spell Lists

• Official Sources Only: All spells from official 5.5 to 5e, published sourcebooks are completely legal and allowed for character building and progression.
• Rare spells for older edition must be obtained through spell books or scrolls

Daily Casting Tracking (Misc Logs Channel)

• To keep the flow of the game clean, players are required to log their daily spell usage.
• Please post your character’s spell slot expenditures, long rest resets, and daily magical preparations directly into the #misc-logs channel.

Circle Magic

• Cooperative Casting: Circle magic is explicitly allowed in the west march. Spellcasters can combine their magical energies.
• Specific mechanical requirements (such as required feat investment, arcana checks, or casting time multipliers) will be determined by the GM based on the attempted spell.
• http://dnd2024.wikidot.com/circle-magic

Time Crystals (Spell Acceleration)

• Speeding Up Magic: Spellcasters may utilize rare Time Crystals to accelerate their magic.
• Consuming a time crystal will allow you to speed up spells that require daily casting. For example skipping thirty days.

Alternate Spell Points Rule(Optional)

To better reflect the fluid, exhausting nature of magic in this world, this campaign uses the Spell Points variant rule instead of traditional spell slots.

https://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell-points

Epic magic

Epic magic is allowed and can be used in tandem with circle magic...

https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Epic_Magic_(10th%2B_Level_Magic)_(5e_Variant_Rule)

Scribing and spell copying

Prerequisites for the Scribe

To scribe a scroll, you must have proficiency in the Arcana skill or with Calligrapher's Supplies and have the spell prepared on each day of the inscription. You must also have at hand any Material components required by the spell; if the spell consumes its Material components, they are consumed only when you complete the scroll. The scroll's spell uses your spell save DC and spell attack bonus.

Time and Cost

Scribing a scroll takes an amount of money based on the level of the spell, as shown in the Spell Scroll Costs table.

If the scribed spell is a cantrip, the version on the scroll works as if the caster were your level.

Copying a Scroll into a Spellbook. A Wizard spell on a Spell Scroll can be copied into a spellbook. When a spell is copied in this way, the copier must succeed on an Intelligence (Arcana) check with a DC equal to 10 plus the spell’s level. On a successful check, the spell is copied. Whether the check succeeds or fails, the Spell Scroll is destroyed.

Spell book rules

The spells that you add to your spellbook as you gain levels reflect the arcane research you conduct on your own, as well as intellectual breakthroughs you have had about the nature of the multiverse. You might find other spells during your adventures. You could discover a spell recorded on a scroll in an evil wizard’s chest, for example, or in a dusty tome in an ancient library.

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 spell level you can prepare and if you can spare the time to decipher and copy it.

Copying that spell into your spellbook involves reproducing the basic form of the spell, then deciphering the unique system of notation used by the wizard who wrote it. You must practice the spell until you understand the sounds or gestures required, then transcribe it into your spellbook using your own notation.

For each level of the spell, the process costs 50 gp. The cost represents material components you expend as you experiment with the spell to master it, as well as the fine inks you need to record it. Once you have spent this time and money, you can prepare the spell just like your other spells. You may reduce the cost via abilities such as order of scribes wizard subclass. All spell copying needs to be recorded in misc-logs.

Replacing the Book: You can copy a spell from your own spellbook into another book—for example, if you want to make a backup copy of your spellbook. This is just like copying a new spell into your spellbook, but faster and easier, since you understand your own notation and already know how to cast the spell. You need spend only 1 hour and 10 gp for each level of the copied spell.

If you lose your spellbook, you can use the same procedure to transcribe the spells that you have prepared into a new spellbook. Filling out the remainder of your spellbook requires you to find new spells to do so, as normal. For this reason, many wizards keep backup spellbooks in a safe place.

The Book’s Appearance: Your spellbook is a unique compilation of spells, with its own decorative flourishes and margin notes. It might be a plain, functional leather volume that you received as a gift from your master, a finely bound gilt-­edged tome you found in an ancient library, or even a loose collection of notes scrounged together after you lost your previous spellbook in a mishap.