Is it possible to spoof an IP address to an exact number?

What is the addition in the re-released version of Avengers: Endgame?

How did Einstein know the speed of light was constant?

Why does the Batman "crack his knuckles" in "Batman: Arkham Origins"?

How do both sides know the MTU

Do intermediate subdomains need to exist?

Is there an easy way to index by a binary vector / mask?

Should I warn my boss I might take sick leave

Platform Event Design when Subscribers are Apex Triggers

Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run more quickly?

How come having a Deathly Hallow is not a big deal?

Why is the saxophone not common in classical repertoire?

What is meaning of 4 letter abbreviations in Roman names like Titus Flavius T. f. T. n. Sabinus?

Explain how 'Sharing the burden' puzzle from Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask should be solved

Why would a propeller have blades of different lengths?

How can I define a very large matrix efficiently?

Creating patterns

How to calculate a conditional PDF in mathematica?

How should I present a resort brochure in my general fiction?

What do you call the angle of the direction of an airplane?

Is it bad to suddenly introduce another element to your fantasy world a good ways into the story?

What is this arch-and-tower near a road?

Park the computer

How frequently do Russian people still refer to others by their patronymic (отчество)?

Does a multiclassed wizard start with a spellbook?

How to gain utility powers from multiple other classesCan a spellbook contain cantrips?Can an Arcane Trickster Rogue learn all of the wizard spells from the low levels it has slots for?Is a long rest required between uses of Arcane Recovery?Can a multiclass alchemist/wizard learn alchemist formulae as a wizard?Can a kenku wizard use Expert Forgery when copying a spell scroll into their spellbook?Can a Wizard “reverse-engineer” a magic item to copy the spell into his spellbook?What's the in-universe reasoning behind sorcerers needing material components?How would it imbalance gameplay to allow a multiclassed wizard/sorcerer to copy wizard spells in a spellbook for which one has spell slots?Using a found spellbook as a Sorcerer-Wizard multiclass

.everyoneloves__top-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__mid-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__bot-mid-leaderboard:empty{ margin-bottom:0;
}

10

$begingroup$

If I multiclass into Wizard, do I automatically begin with a spellbook?

I'm looking for support within the written rules. Designer intent is a consideration, but their intent should be well supported in order to be accepted. If using intent, please review the tweet's logic within the rules to support it.

dnd-5e wizard multi-classing equipment

share|improve this question

edited 8 hours ago

NautArch

asked 8 hours ago

NautArchNautArch

71.4k1414 gold badges275275 silver badges476476 bronze badges

$endgroup$

add a comment | 

10

$begingroup$

If I multiclass into Wizard, do I automatically begin with a spellbook?

I'm looking for support within the written rules. Designer intent is a consideration, but their intent should be well supported in order to be accepted. If using intent, please review the tweet's logic within the rules to support it.

dnd-5e wizard multi-classing equipment

share|improve this question

edited 8 hours ago

NautArch

asked 8 hours ago

NautArchNautArch

71.4k1414 gold badges275275 silver badges476476 bronze badges

$endgroup$

add a comment | 

$begingroup$

If I multiclass into Wizard, do I automatically begin with a spellbook?

I'm looking for support within the written rules. Designer intent is a consideration, but their intent should be well supported in order to be accepted. If using intent, please review the tweet's logic within the rules to support it.

dnd-5e wizard multi-classing equipment

share|improve this question

edited 8 hours ago

NautArch

asked 8 hours ago

NautArchNautArch

71.4k1414 gold badges275275 silver badges476476 bronze badges

$endgroup$

share|improve this question

edited 8 hours ago

NautArch

asked 8 hours ago

NautArchNautArch

71.4k1414 gold badges275275 silver badges476476 bronze badges

share|improve this question

edited 8 hours ago

NautArch

asked 8 hours ago

NautArchNautArch

71.4k1414 gold badges275275 silver badges476476 bronze badges

asked 8 hours ago

NautArchNautArch

71.4k1414 gold badges275275 silver badges476476 bronze badges

asked 8 hours ago

NautArchNautArch

71.4k1414 gold badges275275 silver badges476476 bronze badges

2 Answers
2

active

oldest

votes

18

$begingroup$

Yes, you are granted a spellbook by your spellcasting.

Spellcasting (PHB 114):

As a student of arcane magic, you have a spellbook containing spells
that show the first glimmerings of your true power.

So you have a spellbook, disregarding how you got it.

Class Features (PHB 164):

When you gain a new level in a class, you get its features for that
level.

Spellcasting is a class feature that has some additonal rules tied to it.

Spellcasting (PHB 164):

Your capacity for spellcasting depends partly on your combined levels
in all your spellcasting classes and partly on your individual levels
in those classes.

As the additional rules do not state that you lose any spellbook granted, you have one.

---

So what about the spellbook that is listed under equipment?

Well that is also a separate issue (which most GM's dutifully ignore).

Your spellbook is part of the spellcasting class feature, which is a separate instance from your starting equipment. Your starting equipment is not a class feature granted by multiclassing PHB errata V2.0 page 2

You don’t, however, receive the class’s starting equipment,

So what is your new spellbook that you get due to your spellcasting feature?

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.

Well it could be lots of things, Rubiksmoose phrases it nicely:

you can use almost anything as a spellbook even things like metal
sheets and carved rocks in a bag.

share|improve this answer

edited 8 hours ago

answered 8 hours ago

AkixkisuAkixkisu

6,86222 gold badges2222 silver badges6565 bronze badges

$endgroup$

• 
  
  
  

  
  3
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  $begingroup$
  D&D Beyond seems to follow this interpretation. Creating a character and multiclassing into wizard does not give you a spellbook equipment but still allows you to use the spellbook features character test here. This is naturally just because someone programmed it like that (perhaps even unintentionally) but I still found it interesting.
  $endgroup$
  – Sdjz
  8 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

3

$begingroup$

Yes.

According to Jeremy Crawford on Twitter, the spellbook is a feature of the class, and is therefore gained upon taking a level in Wizard. How you explain it in-game is between the DM and the player to work out.

share|improve this answer

edited 8 hours ago

NautArch

71.4k1414 gold badges275275 silver badges476476 bronze badges

answered 8 hours ago

cpcodescpcodes

2,74633 silver badges2323 bronze badges

$endgroup$

• 
  
  
  

  
  4
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  $begingroup$
  Can you support this outside of purely JC. He gives some insight into his mind, but the tweets aren't official rules/rulings. I'd prefer answers to be focused more on the written rules.
  $endgroup$
  – NautArch
  8 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  2
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  $begingroup$
  As Crawford's tweets are no longer considered official rulings, this answer will probably benefit from quoting/investigating the specific rules and how they support the conclusion in a bit more detail.
  $endgroup$
  – Carcer
  8 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  4
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  $begingroup$
  Also note that sageadvice.eu is NOT Sage Advice from WoTC. It's just a guy who consolidated designer tweets.
  $endgroup$
  – NautArch
  8 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  $begingroup$
  This answer can be improved by citing the PHB text for the wizard's Spellcasting feature ("you have a spellbook...")
  $endgroup$
  – MikeQ
  8 hours ago
  
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  $begingroup$
  I'm also not asking how to narrate it, just whether or not it's possible.
  $endgroup$
  – NautArch
  8 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

 | 
show 1 more comment

Your Answer

StackExchange.ready(function() {
var channelOptions = {
tags: "".split(" "),
id: "122"
};
initTagRenderer("".split(" "), "".split(" "), channelOptions);

StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function() {
// Have to fire editor after snippets, if snippets enabled
if (StackExchange.settings.snippets.snippetsEnabled) {
StackExchange.using("snippets", function() {
createEditor();
});
}
else {
createEditor();
}
});

function createEditor() {
StackExchange.prepareEditor({
heartbeatType: 'answer',
autoActivateHeartbeat: false,
convertImagesToLinks: false,
noModals: true,
showLowRepImageUploadWarning: true,
reputationToPostImages: null,
bindNavPrevention: true,
postfix: "",
imageUploader: {
brandingHtml: "Powered by u003ca class="icon-imgur-white" href="https://imgur.com/"u003eu003c/au003e",
contentPolicyHtml: "User contributions licensed under u003ca href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"u003ecc by-sa 3.0 with attribution requiredu003c/au003e u003ca href="https://stackoverflow.com/legal/content-policy"u003e(content policy)u003c/au003e",
allowUrls: true
},
noCode: true, onDemand: true,
discardSelector: ".discard-answer"
,immediatelyShowMarkdownHelp:true
});


}
});

draft saved

draft discarded

Sign up or log in

StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});

Sign up using Google

Sign up using Facebook

Sign up using Email and Password

Post as a guest

Name

Email

Required, but never shown

StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2frpg.stackexchange.com%2fquestions%2f150970%2fdoes-a-multiclassed-wizard-start-with-a-spellbook%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);

Post as a guest

Name

Email

Required, but never shown

18

$begingroup$

Yes, you are granted a spellbook by your spellcasting.

Spellcasting (PHB 114):

As a student of arcane magic, you have a spellbook containing spells
that show the first glimmerings of your true power.

So you have a spellbook, disregarding how you got it.

Class Features (PHB 164):

When you gain a new level in a class, you get its features for that
level.

Spellcasting is a class feature that has some additonal rules tied to it.

Spellcasting (PHB 164):

Your capacity for spellcasting depends partly on your combined levels
in all your spellcasting classes and partly on your individual levels
in those classes.

As the additional rules do not state that you lose any spellbook granted, you have one.

---

So what about the spellbook that is listed under equipment?

Well that is also a separate issue (which most GM's dutifully ignore).

Your spellbook is part of the spellcasting class feature, which is a separate instance from your starting equipment. Your starting equipment is not a class feature granted by multiclassing PHB errata V2.0 page 2

You don’t, however, receive the class’s starting equipment,

So what is your new spellbook that you get due to your spellcasting feature?

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.

Well it could be lots of things, Rubiksmoose phrases it nicely:

you can use almost anything as a spellbook even things like metal
sheets and carved rocks in a bag.

share|improve this answer

edited 8 hours ago

answered 8 hours ago

AkixkisuAkixkisu

6,86222 gold badges2222 silver badges6565 bronze badges

$endgroup$

• 
  
  
  

  
  3
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  $begingroup$
  D&D Beyond seems to follow this interpretation. Creating a character and multiclassing into wizard does not give you a spellbook equipment but still allows you to use the spellbook features character test here. This is naturally just because someone programmed it like that (perhaps even unintentionally) but I still found it interesting.
  $endgroup$
  – Sdjz
  8 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

18

$begingroup$

Yes, you are granted a spellbook by your spellcasting.

Spellcasting (PHB 114):

As a student of arcane magic, you have a spellbook containing spells
that show the first glimmerings of your true power.

So you have a spellbook, disregarding how you got it.

Class Features (PHB 164):

When you gain a new level in a class, you get its features for that
level.

Spellcasting is a class feature that has some additonal rules tied to it.

Spellcasting (PHB 164):

Your capacity for spellcasting depends partly on your combined levels
in all your spellcasting classes and partly on your individual levels
in those classes.

As the additional rules do not state that you lose any spellbook granted, you have one.

---

So what about the spellbook that is listed under equipment?

Well that is also a separate issue (which most GM's dutifully ignore).

Your spellbook is part of the spellcasting class feature, which is a separate instance from your starting equipment. Your starting equipment is not a class feature granted by multiclassing PHB errata V2.0 page 2

You don’t, however, receive the class’s starting equipment,

So what is your new spellbook that you get due to your spellcasting feature?

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.

Well it could be lots of things, Rubiksmoose phrases it nicely:

you can use almost anything as a spellbook even things like metal
sheets and carved rocks in a bag.

share|improve this answer

edited 8 hours ago

answered 8 hours ago

AkixkisuAkixkisu

6,86222 gold badges2222 silver badges6565 bronze badges

$endgroup$

• 
  
  
  

  
  3
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  $begingroup$
  D&D Beyond seems to follow this interpretation. Creating a character and multiclassing into wizard does not give you a spellbook equipment but still allows you to use the spellbook features character test here. This is naturally just because someone programmed it like that (perhaps even unintentionally) but I still found it interesting.
  $endgroup$
  – Sdjz
  8 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

$begingroup$

Yes, you are granted a spellbook by your spellcasting.

Spellcasting (PHB 114):

As a student of arcane magic, you have a spellbook containing spells
that show the first glimmerings of your true power.

So you have a spellbook, disregarding how you got it.

Class Features (PHB 164):

When you gain a new level in a class, you get its features for that
level.

Spellcasting is a class feature that has some additonal rules tied to it.

Spellcasting (PHB 164):

Your capacity for spellcasting depends partly on your combined levels
in all your spellcasting classes and partly on your individual levels
in those classes.

As the additional rules do not state that you lose any spellbook granted, you have one.

---

So what about the spellbook that is listed under equipment?

Well that is also a separate issue (which most GM's dutifully ignore).

Your spellbook is part of the spellcasting class feature, which is a separate instance from your starting equipment. Your starting equipment is not a class feature granted by multiclassing PHB errata V2.0 page 2

You don’t, however, receive the class’s starting equipment,

So what is your new spellbook that you get due to your spellcasting feature?

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.

Well it could be lots of things, Rubiksmoose phrases it nicely:

you can use almost anything as a spellbook even things like metal
sheets and carved rocks in a bag.

share|improve this answer

edited 8 hours ago

answered 8 hours ago

AkixkisuAkixkisu

6,86222 gold badges2222 silver badges6565 bronze badges

$endgroup$

share|improve this answer

edited 8 hours ago

answered 8 hours ago

AkixkisuAkixkisu

6,86222 gold badges2222 silver badges6565 bronze badges

answered 8 hours ago

AkixkisuAkixkisu

6,86222 gold badges2222 silver badges6565 bronze badges

answered 8 hours ago

AkixkisuAkixkisu

6,86222 gold badges2222 silver badges6565 bronze badges

3

$begingroup$

Yes.

According to Jeremy Crawford on Twitter, the spellbook is a feature of the class, and is therefore gained upon taking a level in Wizard. How you explain it in-game is between the DM and the player to work out.

share|improve this answer

edited 8 hours ago

NautArch

71.4k1414 gold badges275275 silver badges476476 bronze badges

answered 8 hours ago

cpcodescpcodes

2,74633 silver badges2323 bronze badges

$endgroup$

• 
  
  
  

  
  4
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  $begingroup$
  Can you support this outside of purely JC. He gives some insight into his mind, but the tweets aren't official rules/rulings. I'd prefer answers to be focused more on the written rules.
  $endgroup$
  – NautArch
  8 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  2
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  $begingroup$
  As Crawford's tweets are no longer considered official rulings, this answer will probably benefit from quoting/investigating the specific rules and how they support the conclusion in a bit more detail.
  $endgroup$
  – Carcer
  8 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  4
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  $begingroup$
  Also note that sageadvice.eu is NOT Sage Advice from WoTC. It's just a guy who consolidated designer tweets.
  $endgroup$
  – NautArch
  8 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  $begingroup$
  This answer can be improved by citing the PHB text for the wizard's Spellcasting feature ("you have a spellbook...")
  $endgroup$
  – MikeQ
  8 hours ago
  
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  $begingroup$
  I'm also not asking how to narrate it, just whether or not it's possible.
  $endgroup$
  – NautArch
  8 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

 | 
show 1 more comment

3

$begingroup$

Yes.

According to Jeremy Crawford on Twitter, the spellbook is a feature of the class, and is therefore gained upon taking a level in Wizard. How you explain it in-game is between the DM and the player to work out.

share|improve this answer

edited 8 hours ago

NautArch

71.4k1414 gold badges275275 silver badges476476 bronze badges

answered 8 hours ago

cpcodescpcodes

2,74633 silver badges2323 bronze badges

$endgroup$

• 
  
  
  

  
  4
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  $begingroup$
  Can you support this outside of purely JC. He gives some insight into his mind, but the tweets aren't official rules/rulings. I'd prefer answers to be focused more on the written rules.
  $endgroup$
  – NautArch
  8 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  2
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  $begingroup$
  As Crawford's tweets are no longer considered official rulings, this answer will probably benefit from quoting/investigating the specific rules and how they support the conclusion in a bit more detail.
  $endgroup$
  – Carcer
  8 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  4
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  $begingroup$
  Also note that sageadvice.eu is NOT Sage Advice from WoTC. It's just a guy who consolidated designer tweets.
  $endgroup$
  – NautArch
  8 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  $begingroup$
  This answer can be improved by citing the PHB text for the wizard's Spellcasting feature ("you have a spellbook...")
  $endgroup$
  – MikeQ
  8 hours ago
  
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  $begingroup$
  I'm also not asking how to narrate it, just whether or not it's possible.
  $endgroup$
  – NautArch
  8 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

 | 
show 1 more comment

$begingroup$

Yes.

According to Jeremy Crawford on Twitter, the spellbook is a feature of the class, and is therefore gained upon taking a level in Wizard. How you explain it in-game is between the DM and the player to work out.

share|improve this answer

edited 8 hours ago

NautArch

71.4k1414 gold badges275275 silver badges476476 bronze badges

answered 8 hours ago

cpcodescpcodes

2,74633 silver badges2323 bronze badges

$endgroup$

share|improve this answer

edited 8 hours ago

NautArch

71.4k1414 gold badges275275 silver badges476476 bronze badges

answered 8 hours ago

cpcodescpcodes

2,74633 silver badges2323 bronze badges

edited 8 hours ago

NautArch

71.4k1414 gold badges275275 silver badges476476 bronze badges

edited 8 hours ago

NautArch

71.4k1414 gold badges275275 silver badges476476 bronze badges

answered 8 hours ago

cpcodescpcodes

2,74633 silver badges2323 bronze badges

answered 8 hours ago

cpcodescpcodes

2,74633 silver badges2323 bronze badges