D&D 3E/3.5 3.5 Bbb

[Bauglir]

"Boccob's Blessed Book: A wizard can fill the 1000 pages of BBB with spells without paying the 25 gp/page material cost. Price 12,500 gp"

No more freely accepting! \o/

Also I can't help but notice that a full BBB pays for itself, meaning it's a nobrainer to get one

 

[Skaros]

According to Olgad's compiled 3.5 revisions, its 100 GP per page normally:

j. Costs for wizards scribing spells to spell books:
Time: The process takes 24 hours, regardless of the spell's level.
Space in the Spellbook: A spell takes up one page of the spellbook per spell level, so a 2nd-level spell takes two pages, a 5th-level spell takes five pages, and so forth. Even a 0-level spell (cantrip) takes one page. A spellbook has one hundred pages.
Materials and Costs: Materials for writing the spell (special quills, inks, and other supplies) cost 100gp per page.
Note that a wizard does not have to pay these costs in time or gold for the spells she gains for free at each new level. She simply adds these to her spellbook as part of her ongoing research

Further, I wonder if the 1000 page thing isn't a typo....That's 1000 first level spells....or 500 second level. Heck, its 111 ninth level spells!

Perhaps its a typo, and the correct value is '100'. In that case if you used all 100 pages, you'd have scribed 10,000 GP of spells for free, which wouldn't pay for the book unless you made it yourself (half cost).

If it really is 1000, then, well, you'd have to scribe 125 spell levels before you start saving money by having the book (if you paid full price).

Hmm.

Skaros

 

[jodyjohnson]

At 1 page per spell level copying every spell in the 3.0 list would take 1386 pages (give or take).

The free 2 spells per level books (starting spellbook+ - ends up being about 230+ pages of spells @ 20th for free with levelling) plus a BBB would be close to being all you'd ever need for just Core spells.

The descrepancy between the 25g/page and 100g/page is disturbing.

 

[Skaros]

At 1 page per spell level copying every spell in the 3.0 list would take 1386 pages (give or take).

The free 2 spells per level books (starting spellbook+ - ends up being about 230+ pages of spells @ 20th for free with levelling) plus a BBB would be close to being all you'd ever need for just Core spells.

The descrepancy between the 25g/page and 100g/page is disturbing.

I think the 25g/page was just something someone summarizing inserted from memory. Olgar's thread specifically says 100 gp/page.

Skaros

 

[Pax]

"Boccob's Blessed Book: A wizard can fill the 1000 pages of BBB with spells without paying the 25 gp/page material cost. Price 12,500 gp"

No more freely accepting! \o/

Also I can't help but notice that a full BBB pays for itself, meaning it's a nobrainer to get one

Actually, at 1,000 pages, and 25gp/page (is that what they reduced scribing costs to, officially? Got a reference?), that's 25,000gp worth of spells.

That would make the BBB a 50%-off effect for scribing spells; I still don't like that; it's marginally better than the broken 3.0 version, but it's still an utter no-brainer; failing to take a BBB, once you can afford it, is still a matter of being DUMB, and not a matter of choosing a different style, approach, etc.

A thin book with a thousand pages, more durable than most, is itself of value. I see no reason why the thing should be FREE to scribe into ... none whatsoever.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Re: Re: 3.5 Bbb

Actually, at 1,000 pages, and 25gp/page (is that what they reduced scribing costs to, officially? Got a reference?), that's 25,000gp worth of spells.

And it sounds like the official figure might still be 100 per page.

-Hyp.

 

[Technik4]

BBB - 12,500 gp - 1,000 pages of spells for free
Reg.- 100,000 gp - 1,000 pages of spells (requires 10 spell books)

Hmmm...

No sir, I don't like it.

Technik

 

[Caliban]

Perhaps only 25 gp out of the 100 gp per page cost is for materials?

Or perhaps it's yet another typo.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Or perhaps it's yet another typo.

Don't worry, they'll fix it in the rev...

... oh.

-Hyp.

 

[jodyjohnson]

There are some no brainers I can live with.

After all getting a magic weapon is a no brainer for a Fighter.