New Magic Spells

[Steven Jones]

If any of you run a fantasy campaign, how are new spells found in your
campaign? I don't mean the OOC procedures for players (or the GM) creating
spells. I mean, how do characters in the setting do so? Are new spells
invented or discovered? I first began wondering this when I started reading
Harry Potter. I imagined wizards sitting around randomly muttering
gibberish and waving their wands around trying to make stuff happen.

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Post by Steven Jones
If any of you run a fantasy campaign, how are new spells found in your
campaign?  I don't mean the OOC procedures for players (or the GM) creating
spells.  I mean, how do characters in the setting do so?  Are new spells
invented or discovered?  I first began wondering this when I started reading
Harry Potter.  I imagined wizards sitting around randomly muttering
gibberish and waving their wands around trying to make stuff happen.

1.) Old wizards puttering in out-of-the-way huts doing experiments.
When they discover a spell, they may be willing to trade.
2.) Ruins of Old Civilizations
3.) Contact with Extra-Planar Beings
4.) Foreign mages.