Spell acquisition by laboratory research or finding random scrolls in treasure loot is fucking boring.
what if the magic-users had to make deals with dark gods/eldritch beasts in order to gain more spells? Yes, I realize that 5e has made a whole class around this concept, but why couldn't O/AD&D magic-users learn spells from every possible source, including pacts, inborn magical ability, and/or spellbook learning?
In fact, in OD&D it's explicitly stated that tower dwelling Magic-User NPCs will send the player party out on a Quest or Geas for magic items, so why not just extend that to have beings of unfathomable power give quests to magic-users as exchange for teaching new spells? And instead of nicely writing down the spells in a book, the supernatural creatures sear the magical knowledge straight into the magic-users mind, such that they have to write it down or lose it forever, and this method causes the language to be utter gibberish to everyone except its original recipient.
This is a great concept and will be how I approach MU spells from now on.
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