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<blockquote data-quote="Pauper" data-source="post: 6836670" data-attributes="member: 17607"><p>None of those questions are relevant for determining the 'value' of the book (as opposed to the 'cost' of the book to the original caster). Simply treat every spell as if it has been scribed by the owner of the book for determining the value of the book. In this case, there are 5 first-level spells and 4 second-level spells, for a total of 13 spell levels. The value of the book is therefore 50 gold (for the blank book) plus 650 gold (for the thirteen spell levels) for a total of 700 gold, resulting in 350 gold if the book is sold.</p><p></p><p>If the original owner scribed some of those spells for free when advancing a level in wizard, or scribed some spells for half cost because they were school spells, that's no big deal -- congrats, you used a class ability to get a more valuable item than you normally would have access to!</p><p></p><p>(Edit: If your argument is correct, Byakugan, then you also would arguably penalize a character for using downtime days to craft her own plate mail, because she only 'paid' half cost to create it. That seems unreasonable to me.)</p><p></p><p>The only potential problem this ruling opens up is that is allows wizards to scribe 'backup' books using their downtime and sell them for a profit, since the cost of copying spells into a backup spellbook is less than half of the cost of scribing a new spell into the book. This might explain why filled spellbooks are treated as being no more valuable than empty spellbooks in AL.</p><p></p><p>--</p><p>Pauper</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pauper, post: 6836670, member: 17607"] None of those questions are relevant for determining the 'value' of the book (as opposed to the 'cost' of the book to the original caster). Simply treat every spell as if it has been scribed by the owner of the book for determining the value of the book. In this case, there are 5 first-level spells and 4 second-level spells, for a total of 13 spell levels. The value of the book is therefore 50 gold (for the blank book) plus 650 gold (for the thirteen spell levels) for a total of 700 gold, resulting in 350 gold if the book is sold. If the original owner scribed some of those spells for free when advancing a level in wizard, or scribed some spells for half cost because they were school spells, that's no big deal -- congrats, you used a class ability to get a more valuable item than you normally would have access to! (Edit: If your argument is correct, Byakugan, then you also would arguably penalize a character for using downtime days to craft her own plate mail, because she only 'paid' half cost to create it. That seems unreasonable to me.) The only potential problem this ruling opens up is that is allows wizards to scribe 'backup' books using their downtime and sell them for a profit, since the cost of copying spells into a backup spellbook is less than half of the cost of scribing a new spell into the book. This might explain why filled spellbooks are treated as being no more valuable than empty spellbooks in AL. -- Pauper [/QUOTE]
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