[quote=@Mortalbean] I would say reading every rule is a good idea, MEMORIZING every rule isn't. The rules that are important will come up a lot and you will either remember them from when you read them the first time or begin to memorize them as you look them up over and over again. This is slow going at first but I find it tends to work well enough. I haven't had a chance to do any specifics however I think that for my character I might try and do something of a pessimistic wizard who gets his best spell-book stolen locking him out of his tower along with making him lose all of his most powerful spells. He rushes off to hunt the thief, grumbling about how things are probably only going to get worse. [/quote] Yeah, that's probably what I meant. Hence why it's always a good idea to have at least one copy of the PHB, DMG and MM around for reference. I agree though, I love thumbing through the guides just reading every little detail like Feats, Traits and all the Monsters. I'm especially bad with Pathfinder as there's the Core Book, then all of the Advanced Guides, the Ultimate Guides, the Adventure Modules and Paths, the Companion Guides...... Why is it when you described your character, I automatically thought of Rincewind from the Discworld? Also stolen spellbook huh? Well the Bastardly Bard also had something stolen from his noble family years ago which they spent most of their fortune (and his inheritance) trying to find. The Bard has since spent a portion of his life trying to find this thing, just so he can see what they thought was so damn important.