Spellbooks for Multiclass Arcane Casters

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There’s an original post about this here PF2 Spellbook for a Magus/Wizard but I noticed it was in the General Forum and I think this forum is probably more appropriate for raising this issue.

To summarize, currently if you are an arcane prepared spellcaster and you take a dedication for another arcane prepared spellcaster you end up with 2 separate spellbooks. However, you should have one shared spellbook for all your arcane spells:

“If you have a spellbook from multiple sources (such as being a magus with the Wizard Dedication feat), you can use the same spellbook for all your spells.”

Right now I have a Magus with the Wizard Dedication and I have to dupe all my Magus spells into my Wizard spellbook and vise versa if I want to be able to prepare any of my arcane spells in any of my spell slots.

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Thanks for mentioning the issue here as well. We’re exploring how best to solve this without causing issues for existing characters. :slight_smile:

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It’s been a few months and was just wondering if there’s an traction here. I had to spend a good bit of time last game “resyncing” my spellbooks.

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Still on the list! I appreciate you following up. :blue_heart:

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Thanks for replying! I have to say Demiplane’s staff is great. I really appreciate you guys taking the time to reply to every post that shows up here.

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Just curious if there’s been any movement on this. I know your devs are probably hard pressed with the Roll20 integrations, but hoping this makes it into Demiplane soon.

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Thanks for speaking back up about this. I’ll make sure that it gets seen by someone and looked into again.

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I’m not sure about this being the best place to add this or not, but there are additional issues related to this topic I wanted to raise.

  • As the original poster commented - Magus and Wizard classes with spell books can share the same spell book
  • As currently implemented, I created a Magus/Wizard Archetype, and got 2 separate spell books, however the Magus studious spells were added to the Wizard spell book, and the Magus Hybrid studies were added to the Magus spell book. This wouldn’t be an issue if the spell book were combined correctly, but as of now they are linked incorrectly so cannot memorize them in the correct slots.
  • Adding spells to spell book, as a button per free spell available via initial spells known and level up spells. When clicking on one of these slots there is an option to buy this spell, allowing one to buy a spell (i.e. using Learn a Spell). However, if one has selected all their free (initial+level up) spells the option to add a new spell by coin is no longer available. This making it impossible to add new spells, unless one deletes one of their free spells, then buys the new ones, then adds back in the free spell.

Edit: I did find that once I added all the specific free slot ones a generic add spells option became available that allowed adding of more spells as I expected. So this does work, but it is sort of confusing how it was implemented to me. The issue for me was that I was trying to pick the 5 free cantrips, then add the purchased ones, but could not because I hadn’t picked the rank 1 spells yet.

  • When buying new spells to add to spell book the coin amount is not adjustable. When using Learn a Spell, a critical success halves the resources used, so this value must be able to be set to half the default value. Especially when one has the feat Magical Shorthand, where every success counts as a critical and thus costs half for all spells added to the book.
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Thanks for the detailed description of the issues at hand, that really helps. I’ve added part of this to the existing ticket and gone ahead and made a new feature request asking that we make the cost of spells adjustable to take into account the fact that you can crit for half cost.

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