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pedr 07-26-06, 11:37 AM	Don't read this if you've not played it! I played this last weekend with my first level wizard, having not played a wizard in LG before, and I'd like some clarification on the favour which allows you to join the University of Magical Arts as a Visiting Professor. The benefit says that you can purchase any scroll in the DMG that you can normally cast. What does 'normally cast' mean? If it means 'have as a known spell/in your spellbook' then it's not really terribly useful, is it? Since I have scribe scroll, I can obtain scrolls of any spell in my spellbook at half price (admittedly for an XP cost), so the ability to purchase one at full price doesn't help much. It'd only really be useful if it allowed the purchase of scrolls of spells I couldn't yet cast (because I don't have them in my spellbook) which are above the normal gp limit for buying scrolls. Unless I'm missing something very obvious which will reveal how little I know about how wizards work in LG! Before anyone wonders, I know I can't take advantage of the favour at 1st level, and even if the benefit is pretty useless I'll probably still take the position for RP reasons (my wizard wants *power* - after all, she's a halfling and she's fed up of people ignoring her - and contacts at the University seem to be one good way to get some!) Any comments gratefully received!
Arvagor 07-26-06, 11:54 AM	When I played the mod and asked about the favor, I was told (in essence), "any spell on your arcane class spell list, and which is not restricted, limited, or npc-only".
Swiftbrook 07-26-06, 01:26 PM	When I played the mod and asked about the favor, I was told (in essence), "any spell on your arcane class spell list, and which is not restricted, limited, or npc-only". Wouldn't that give your wizard access to every non restricted, limited, or npc-only spell to add to your spellbook? Don't have "Burning Hands", buy a scroll of "Burning Hands" from the guild and use it to write the spell in your spellbook. Seems like an incredible benifit to me. Disclamer I don't play wizards, but I believe you can use a scroll to write the spell in your spellbook instead of using it to cast a spell. Flame me if I'm wrong. -Swiftbrook
darrell_uk 07-26-06, 01:46 PM	The author posted the following to the Living_Grayhawk Yahoo group: "Well, as the guy who WROTE the confusing AR, I can only tell you my intent: The intent was for you to be able to buy a spell that you "could" cast, not that you "can" cast. So... If you can cast third level spells, you can buy a third level scroll. If you can cast 5th level spells you can buy a 5th level scroll. These are all DMG scrolls as I recall so its not a 100% open shopping book, but still, its great for expanding a spell book, or for a sorceror who wants to buy a few scrolls not on the spell list. Hope this helps! Jeffery A. Dobberpuhl"
trollbill 07-26-06, 02:14 PM	The author posted the following to the Living_Grayhawk Yahoo group: "Well, as the guy who WROTE the confusing AR, I can only tell you my intent: The intent was for you to be able to buy a spell that you "could" cast, not that you "can" cast. So... If you can cast third level spells, you can buy a third level scroll. If you can cast 5th level spells you can buy a 5th level scroll. These are all DMG scrolls as I recall so its not a 100% open shopping book, but still, its great for expanding a spell book, or for a sorceror who wants to buy a few scrolls not on the spell list. Hope this helps! Jeffery A. Dobberpuhl" Okay, from this I gather that this AR gives you: Access to scrolls whose value exceeds 750 GP that are on your class spell list and for which you are high enough level to cast.
blood_kite 07-27-06, 01:12 PM	It does look like the favor is supposed to give you access to higher level scroll (5th level spells and above). Which is interesting since the APL range is 2-8. With the OP's Wiz 1 is will be a while before this favor really starts to kick in.