DnD 3.5 to 5e Spell Conversions: Amanuensis

Amanuensis

Transmutation cantrip

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• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 10 feet
• Components: V, S, M (a quill and a bottle of ink)
• Duration: 1 minute
• Classes: Artificer, Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard

You cause writing from one source to be copied into a book, paper, or parchment. Over the course of one minute, this spell can copy up to 250 words and creates a perfect duplicate of the original. The spell copies only nonmagical text, not illustrations or magical writings (such as the text of a spellbook, a spell scroll or glyph of warding). If the target contains both normal and magical writing only the normal text is copied, leaving a blank space in the copied text where magical writing would be expected. Likewise, if the target contains text and illustration, only the text is copied. Blank paper, parchment or a book must be provided for the spell to write upon. This spell does not translate the copied writing. If you do not understand the original, you have no additional ability to understand the copy.

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One of the spells from my conversions of the entire Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 Spell Compendium into 5e and published in Spells of Antiquity. This one is a particularly interesting mountain of letters I don't care to try pronouncing out loud. This is mostly just a physical CTRL+C/CTRL+V for when you really need to remember exactly what the important book says, but don't want to steal it to do so.