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

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

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 <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> 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
>