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<blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 2865964" data-attributes="member: 40176"><p>It's not for no real reason. 3rd edition does an absolutely superb job of organising and simplifying item creation rules to make them more useable and consistent. Part of that was to provide sensible pricing structures for both scrolls and spellbooks.</p><p></p><p>Now, it so happens that, beyond very low levels, it's significantly cheaper to write spells into a spellbook than it is to scribe them as scrolls. If spellbooks were directly castable, no wizard would bother scribing scrolls - they'd just buy loads of spare spellbooks and fill them with the spells they want to cast from scrolls, at a significantly reduced price - and with no XP expenditure.</p><p></p><p>Now, this could be set right by matching up the costs of scrolls and spellbooks, but there are very sound game-balance reasons not to do so. The simple solution, therefore, is <em>not</em> to allow wizards to cast directly from their spellbook.</p><p></p><p>Why does this even bother you? It makes practically no impact on the power of wizards, and contrary to what you may believe, there are good reasons for the change.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Of course not. Scrolls are just parchment, and dirt cheap. It's the special inks that set you back in materials costs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MarkB, post: 2865964, member: 40176"] It's not for no real reason. 3rd edition does an absolutely superb job of organising and simplifying item creation rules to make them more useable and consistent. Part of that was to provide sensible pricing structures for both scrolls and spellbooks. Now, it so happens that, beyond very low levels, it's significantly cheaper to write spells into a spellbook than it is to scribe them as scrolls. If spellbooks were directly castable, no wizard would bother scribing scrolls - they'd just buy loads of spare spellbooks and fill them with the spells they want to cast from scrolls, at a significantly reduced price - and with no XP expenditure. Now, this could be set right by matching up the costs of scrolls and spellbooks, but there are very sound game-balance reasons not to do so. The simple solution, therefore, is [i]not[/i] to allow wizards to cast directly from their spellbook. Why does this even bother you? It makes practically no impact on the power of wizards, and contrary to what you may believe, there are good reasons for the change. Of course not. Scrolls are just parchment, and dirt cheap. It's the special inks that set you back in materials costs. [/QUOTE]
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