Legendary Item. Requires attunement by a wizard.
This peculiar spellbook holds the writings of many wizards across the ages, but it keeps each wizard’s work isolated behind a mind-bending magical cipher that vexes even the most powerful minds.
Arcane Grimoire, +3. While you are holding this book, you can use it as a spellcasting focus for your wizard spells, and you gain a +3 bonus to the spell attack rolls and saving throw DCs of those spells.
You can use this book as a spellbook. In addition, when you use your Arcane Recovery feature, you can increase the number of spell slot levels you regain by 1.
Infinite Pages. Despite its unassuming dimensions, this book never runs out of space. By rifling through it, you can always find what you’re looking for, whether that is a page you wrote in before, a new blank page, or a page containing another wizard’s writings.
You can search for a page based on a general description. If a page matching that description exists, you will find it. For example, searching for “an omelette recipe from a wizard who loved, loved, loved orange soda” might lead you to a page of culinary notes left by the wizard Kel.
Deciphering a Page. If you have the book open to a page containing another wizard’s writings, you may attempt to decipher its contents. To do so, roll an ability check using your Intelligence. If the page contains a spell, the DC of the check is 15 + the level of the spell. Otherwise, the DC is 20. This process takes a number of minutes equal to the DC of the check.
If you successfully decipher a page, it becomes readable to you and is permanently added to your section of the book. If the page contains a spell, it is added to the list of spells you know.
If you fail to decipher the contents of the page, you immediately suffer the following effects:
- You gain one level of exhaustion.
- You are unable to cast spells other than cantrips until you finish a long rest.