Buying spells from NPCs

[DavidC]

Having taken a level of Wizard for my future Arcane Archer I'm wondering how buying new spells works.

I was told you can buy access to any spell from an NPC for 50% of the cost to write the spell. Is this true? Does that mean I can pay 15 gp to try and learn any first level spell then make the DC 15 Spellcraft roll to try to scribe it?  

What if I find a scroll during an adventure? Can I try to scribe it at the end of the adventure? 

[Chris Nehren]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:08:16 -0700, DavidC wrote:
> Having taken a level of Wizard for my future Arcane Archer I'm wondering
> how buying new spells works.
>
> I was told you can buy access to any spell from an NPC for 50% of the cost
> to write the spell. Is this true? Does that mean I can pay 15 gp to try and
> learn any first level spell then make the DC 15 Spellcraft roll to try to
> scribe it?

Here, "access" means "the NPC will cast it for you". This is
distinctly different from having access to a scroll.

> What if I find a scroll during an adventure? Can I try to scribe it at the
> end of the adventure?

You can scribe scrolls, yes, if they're not used during the
adventure. That'd probably have to be a decision for the whole
table to make, as it's a shared resource and once you scribe it,
it's gone.

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Chris Nehren

[Dreier]

What you are looking for is in the CRB p. 219:

In most cases, wizards charge a fee for the privilege of

copying spells from their spellbooks. This fee is usually

equal to half the cost to write the spell into a spellbook (see

Writing a New Spell into a Spellbook). Rare and unique

spells might cost significantly more.

So yes you can gain access and copy spells from an NPC's spellbook and add them to your own for half the scribing cost.

[Joe Jungers]

Found a scroll?  Transcribe it for the scribing cost ([spell level]^2)x10  [ie 1 = 10, 2 = 40, 3 = 90, etc]

Got another wizard w/ a spellbook who's willing to share?  Same as finding a scroll.

Back at the lodge?  Go to the archives, pay the access fee [the 50% cost] & scribe to your heart's [or purse's] content.

  [1 = 15, 2nd = 60, 3rd = 135, etc]

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[Marty Weil]

Yes, a PC Wizard can purchase access to any spell (up to 6th level) from an NPC Wizard for half the cost to scribe it. For a first level spell that would be 5 gp access, and 10 gp to attempt to scribe it. Scribing a spell has a DC equal to 1`5 plus the spell level, so a first level spell has a DC of 16. Note that you can take 10 on this check, so most Wizards will seldom have difficulty scribing a spell of a level they can already cast.

During a scenario, if you find a scroll of a spell on your spell list, you can attempt to decipher it (either a DC 20 Spellcraft check, using Read Magic, or having the caster who already has the spell) fr free and scribe it, at the same DC as normal, into your spellbook. Note that you won't have to pay for the access/scroll, but that, as normal, the scroll will be blank after scribing.

Similar rules cover other spellbook casters, like Magus, and only slight differences affect a Witch teaching a scroll spell to her familiar.

The above is covered in the PFS FAQ on the Paizo web site.