Yes, you can cast spells without your spellbook. And yes, your list of prepared spells will stay prepared until you prepare a new list. In the Preparing and Casting spells section, only preparing a new list of spells actually requires your spellbook.
Can wizards learn spells from books?
Spells can only be learned from written sources When you find a wizard spell of 1st level or higher, you can add it to your spellbook if it is of a spell level you can prepare and if you can spare the time to decipher and copy it.
Is it possible to learn spells?
Anyone can learn magic, but this doesn’t happen without some failures. Even Harry Potter had a bumpy road to mastering his spells! Pupils being able to deal with failure and accept criticism through learning magic helps them build the resilience needed to learn something new.
What can a wizard do without a spellbook?
In the Preparing and Casting spells section, only preparing a new list of spells actually requires your spellbook. Casting just requires spell slots and a prepared list of spells, and regaining spell slots just requires a long rest. You can’t cast spells as rituals. You can’t use your Arcane Recovery feature.
Can a wizard cast a ritual without preparing a spell?
Further down the same page, you can cast rituals without preparing them, but even there, we have: You can cast a wizard spell as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag and you have the spell in your spellbook. So, you can’t copy non-Wizard spells into your spellbook, and even if you could, there’s just no way to cast them.
Do you need a book to prepare a spell?
Wizards also must have access to their spellbooks to study from and sufficient light to read them by. There is one major exception: A wizard can prepare a read magic spell even without a spellbook. Spell Preparation Time: After resting, a wizard must study her spellbook to prepare any spells that day.
Can you learn spells that are not on your class List?
When you find a wizard spell of 1st level or higher, you can add it to your spellbook if it is of a level for which you have spell slots and if you can spare the time to decipher and copy it. Emphasis mine. Only spells on the Wizard list can be learned in this way.
