Spells, Spell Books & Scrolls etc
The subject of learning, transcribing and copying spells seems to come up regularly so rather than keep answering individual inquiries I will spell everything out here (see what I did there?). If you have further questions feel free to mail me but I will only answer once, here. Once it is here it is Canon for this game.
My approach has always been to treat Spell Books as essentially a book of scrolls. So if you found a spell book belonging to another M-U you have the option to use spells from their book like scrolls, so each time you use one, it disappears from their book. Or you can write their spells (with Write spell) into your book. There can only be one 'instance' of a spell. As a result, this means if one of you were to copy a spell from another players spell book then the spell is actually moved from one book to another book, which obviously you don't want to do. The only way around this is that one of you would need to be high enough level to make a 'scroll' and give it to the other player (7th level) as per the DMG.
I am fully aware that you guys did not get a good set of spells when you created your characters however the party now has a number of Magic-Users and two extra spell books so in actual fact you now have much greater access to a 'library' of spells than the vast majority of Magic-Users, especially at 1st level, would ever have. The issues now seem to center around portability or individual access, all these issues can be resolved by earning enough treasure to pay for what you want/need.
This message was last edited by the GM at 06:28, Wed 01 Sept 2021.