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I do really want Dread Aspect. That single spell is a battle-winner in the hands of someone who can draw a lot of attention and look very dangerous, and look, here's Mathilde with a Torc of Fire and a complete willingness to charge the enemy lines. If she does that with Dread Aspect and the Torc active against most enemies we're likely to face, particularly skaven where one fleeing rat can cascade into many fleeing rats, then the enemy lines break and if she has people with her (we've been burned by that before) they can decisively penetrate the enemy lines to huge tactical effect.
It's not clear to me if Spells of Grey Magic allows for requesting instruction on a specific spell/spells, but I don't see why it wouldn't. There simply aren't enough apprentices to be teaching all of those classes at all times so the curriculum must be tailored to the students. If @BoneyM would be so kind as to clarify that and it does, I'll probably edit the plan to specify that as highest priority followed by Doppleganger, Invisibility, and Cloak Activity. Even if we consider it too unreliable to use often due to miscast chance, using it once at the right moment- or enchanting an item with it- has the potential to be utterly decisive. The DCs and result of a failed roll should be much lower taking it as a class than learning on our own from a book.
@BoneyM, if you could also rule on whether we can take the same class twice (with the assumption that we mean to learn about different areas of the topic covered) that would be appreciated. if we can just take the Spells of Grey Magic class twice we might be able to pick up 4+ spells again even without a crit, which would be pretty great and guarantee something useful even if we don't get Dread Aspect.
We can indeed do it while on campaign. However, doing it before the campaign means that we'll be better off during the campaign, and further can build on our experiences there by internalizing again so that we end up with higher stats overall.
Aside from that, Stirland is important but we also voted that it's not the most important. We voted to go adventure, so that means that Mathilde should be investing in Mathilde first, second, and often, with other concerns being tertiary.
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