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Hi out there,
Who can help me with learning spells? How does a mage/druid/paladin, all those characters with spellcasting abilities, get this magic in his spellbook? Any advise is welcome.

Priests (Druids/Clerics) have spells automatically put into their Priest Book.

Mage's need to buy or find scrolls and scribe them into their spell book.

A mage cannot learn Priests spells, and, in turn, a Priest cannot learn mage spells.

Two spell types: Wizard spells and Priest spells.

Regarding Priest Spells:
--Clerics/Druids can cast 1st level Priest spells, starting at experience level 1. Rangers/Paladins can cast 1st level Priest spells, but only after attaining experience levels 8/9.
--As you advance in experience level, you can cast more spells per spell level, and can access higher spells levels.
--Each class listed above can only cast certain Priest spells. For example, Druids and Rangers tend to cast Priest spells related to nature.

Regarding Wizard Spells:
--Mages (and Bards) can cast 1st level Wizard spells, starting at experience level 1 (2).
--As you advance in experience level, you can cast more spells per spell level, and can access higher spells levels.
--Unlike Priest spells, Wizard spells are not automatically attained when you advance in level. Find or buy a Wizard spell scroll. Then right-click the scroll (in Inventory), and click Copy. Success (based in Intelligence) adds the scroll to the character's spell book. This also uses up the scroll.
--Some mages are 'specialist' mages. They can cast an extra spell per spell level, but cannot copy certain types of spells. For example, a Necromancer cannot copy Illusion-type spells.

Regarding all the above:
To be able to cast spells you have access to, you must first 'memorize' the spells. Select your spells in the Wizard and Priest Spell screens, then Rest.

Venture into the wilderness, and practice casting on a squirrel (and fear not the rabbit).
I'm serious, know your spells! This ain't Diablo...

Venture into the wilderness, and practice casting on a squirrel (and fear not the rabbit).

You practice spells by casting them on innocent wildlife!! But what about the animals? Think what the animal rights people would say...

Just to add to this list:

Sorceror - chooses spells when levelling up and cannot use spell scrolls to record them in the spell book.

Bard- Like the Paladin is to divine spells, the bard is to arcane spells.

If you dual-class a character into a spell-caster, you will need to add the icon to the bar at the bottom of the screen. I think you can right-click a button there and get options to add/remove buttons. It should explain this somewhere in the manual. Most of this applies more if you are using the BGTutu mod.

Ravanger, please remember that this is the Baldur's Gate forum,
No sorcerors here, and no changing the quickbar.

Sorry Stilgar. I know it's not strictly BGI but...

You DO get these features if you install BGTutu (you just need BGII as well). The quickbar and classes from BGII are then added to BGI.

AFAIK the guy didn't mention TUTU or BG2 in his question

Thanks for the help. And yes, I am only playing BGI, no fancy stuff added (although ToSC will be next).