It would also be hard to police an "all-in" policy. How will the other members know if someone is holding out?
I suspect that free copying from contribution of spells will be enough incentive for "faculty" to keep contributing spells to the library. Perhaps not enough to get people to contribute every spell they find, but enough to keep the library growing, I hope. That's the goal of the guild, after all—to build a library and research facilities, for the primary use of those who contributed (and a secondary use of serving the public).
Maybe we could tweak the rule for "faculty" slightly to allow some to be all-in and others not: those who pledge to contribute all spells they learn to the library can copy all spells from the library for free (spellbook page limits would prevent them from carrying the entire library around on adventures). They might also get two votes instead of one. I'm not sure the tweak is really necessary, though.
It took me a while to figure out what you're saying here. But I think you're saying the problem is that when an MU hits 5th level, he probably won't have a 3rd level spell yet that he can contribute unless he researches it. An MU could also get spells from adventuring or (for a limited number of spells) purchase from other sources, but I get your point. I can take that out.Marullus wrote:To be honest, that DOES bother me. Nobody has spells of the next higher level. This basically requires successful research first, the library second, and that's not necessary.If you don't like the "buy-in" for students to access spells of a certain level (i.e., to copy 3rd-level spells, you need to contribute a spell of at least 3rd level), I'm not devoted to it. But without that "buy-in," there's not much difference between "students" and non-members. Then again, maybe there doesn't need to be?
It does make me wonder how SMAUG can be made into a research university—i.e., by incentivizing research into new spells.