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<blockquote data-quote="Byakugan" data-source="post: 6832734" data-attributes="member: 6816292"><p>Also, since each spell added to a spellbook costs 50gp per level, it's categorically not true that an empty spellbook has the same 'value' as a filled one -- the spellbook in the equipment list is explicitly blank ("a leather-bound tome with 100 blank vellum pages").</p><p></p><p>This is furthur from the truth than what I claimed. If you are playing an AL wizard, it is highly likely that the majority of your spells were added to your spellbook -completely free-. On top of that, spells in your specialization school cost less to scribe. Retroactively calculating how much a wizard -would have had to spend- to make their spellbook is impossible to calculate in most cases. </p><p></p><p>I was being generous saying filled spellbooks are only worth the value of a spellbook. They actually have no specific value at all, and can only even be kept by wizards because AL made a specific rule to allow them to. This is an exception to the usual rule that mundane items are either destroyed or liquidated automatically. A spellbook that is not claimed by a wizard creates precisely 0 gold to each party member. There has been talk about adding a rule into AL to cover this, however it hasn't happened yet. For example, the admins said it was legal to cast Fabricate to make a copy of a spellbook, but there is no value for them. DMs might hate that, or even stop it altogether, but that is probably considered house rules. </p><p></p><p>Everyone's mileage may vary, but through 40 sessions in season 1, including 3 Expeditions, my wizard never encountered a single wizard scroll or spellbook until he got Azbara Jos' spellbook from chapter 6.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Byakugan, post: 6832734, member: 6816292"] Also, since each spell added to a spellbook costs 50gp per level, it's categorically not true that an empty spellbook has the same 'value' as a filled one -- the spellbook in the equipment list is explicitly blank ("a leather-bound tome with 100 blank vellum pages"). This is furthur from the truth than what I claimed. If you are playing an AL wizard, it is highly likely that the majority of your spells were added to your spellbook -completely free-. On top of that, spells in your specialization school cost less to scribe. Retroactively calculating how much a wizard -would have had to spend- to make their spellbook is impossible to calculate in most cases. I was being generous saying filled spellbooks are only worth the value of a spellbook. They actually have no specific value at all, and can only even be kept by wizards because AL made a specific rule to allow them to. This is an exception to the usual rule that mundane items are either destroyed or liquidated automatically. A spellbook that is not claimed by a wizard creates precisely 0 gold to each party member. There has been talk about adding a rule into AL to cover this, however it hasn't happened yet. For example, the admins said it was legal to cast Fabricate to make a copy of a spellbook, but there is no value for them. DMs might hate that, or even stop it altogether, but that is probably considered house rules. Everyone's mileage may vary, but through 40 sessions in season 1, including 3 Expeditions, my wizard never encountered a single wizard scroll or spellbook until he got Azbara Jos' spellbook from chapter 6. [/QUOTE]
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