Learn a Spell Rules
Magical Traditions and Skills
Each magical tradition has a corresponding skill, as shown on the table below. You must have the trained proficiency rank in a skill to use it to Identify Magic or Learn a Spell. Something without a specific tradition, such as an item with the magical trait, can be identified using any of these skills.
| | Magical Tradition | Corresponding Skill
| Arcane | Arcana
| Divine | Religion
| Occult | Occultism
| Primal | Nature
Requirements You have a spellcasting class feature, and the spell you want to learn is on your magical tradition's spell list.
You can gain access to a new spell of your tradition from someone who knows that spell or from magical writing like a spellbook or scroll. If you can cast spells of multiple traditions, you can Learn a Spell of any of those traditions, but you must use the corresponding skill to do so. For example, if you were a cleric with the bard multiclass archetype, you couldn't use Religion to add an occult spell to your bardic spell repertoire.
To learn the spell, you must do the following:
- Spend 1 hour per spell rank, during which you must remain in conversation with a person who knows the spell or have the magical writing in your possession.
- Have materials with the Price indicated in the Learning a Spell table.
- Attempt a skill check for the skill corresponding to your tradition (DC determined by the GM, often close to the DC on the Learning a Spell Table). Uncommon or rare spells have higher DCs; full guidelines for the GM appear on page 52 of GM Core.
Learning a Spell
| | Spell Rank | Price | Typical DC
| 1st or cantrip | 2 gp | 15
| 2nd | 6 gp | 18
| 3rd | 16 gp | 20
| 4th | 36 gp | 23
| 5th | 70 gp | 26
| 6th | 140 gp | 28
| 7th | 300 gp | 31
| 8th | 650 gp | 34
| 9th | 1,500 gp | 36
| 10th | 7,000 gp | 41
Critical Success You expend half the materials and learn the spell.
Success You expend the materials and learn the spell.
Failure You fail to learn the spell but can try again after you gain a level. The materials aren't expended.
Critical Failure As failure, except you expend half the materials.
Source, license, and attribution
Source: Pathfinder Player Core (remaster-core-2026-08-10)
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