I'm trying to write useful spellbooks (magic missile, polymorph,
cancellation, teleport§...), but don't have that many spare spellbooks: I tried
first to get them with polymorph, but bad idea: when reading it, it was
"too faint". Reading the wiki, it looks like when a spellbook gets
blank, there may be a way to reset its read counter?
But tbh, I didn't really understand how...
Otherwise, every spellbook read 3 times can be thrown away?

Thanks for your help/ideas!
ID

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On 14.01.2023 12:14, Isidore Ducasse wrote:

I'm trying to write useful spellbooks (magic missile, polymorph, cancellation, teleport§...), but don't have that many spare spellbooks: I tried
first to get them with polymorph, but bad idea: when reading it, it was
"too faint". Reading the wiki, it looks like when a spellbook gets
blank, there may be a way to reset its read counter?
But tbh, I didn't really understand how...

My understanding is; polymorphing blank spellbooks won't work (as
you experienced), but writing blank spellbooks anew is fine.

Otherwise, every spellbook read 3 times can be thrown away?

Unless this is new it was always possible for me to read spellbooks
many more times (in NH-343 and Slashem); occasionally they vanish,
though, and probability for that *might* increase with the number
of re-read attempts.

Janis

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Right! I've just tried on a spellbook that has been read 3 times, then
blanked, then written, and the read counter is reset! Cool...

Thank you!

On 2023-01-14, Janis Papanagnou <[email protected]> wrote:

On 14.01.2023 12:14, Isidore Ducasse wrote:

I'm trying to write useful spellbooks (magic missile, polymorph,
cancellation, teleport§...), but don't have that many spare spellbooks:
first to get them with polymorph, but bad idea: when reading it, it was
"too faint". Reading the wiki, it looks like when a spellbook gets
blank, there may be a way to reset its read counter?
But tbh, I didn't really understand how...

My understanding is; polymorphing blank spellbooks won't work (as
you experienced), but writing blank spellbooks anew is fine.

Otherwise, every spellbook read 3 times can be thrown away?

Unless this is new it was always possible for me to read spellbooks
many more times (in NH-343 and Slashem); occasionally they vanish,
though, and probability for that *might* increase with the number
of re-read attempts.

Janis

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