Can anyone explain the purpose of this wonderous item?

[Grapeshot]

Blessed Book
This well-made tome is always of small size, typically no more than 12 inches tall, 8 inches wide, and 1 inch thick. All such books are durable, waterproof, bound with iron overlaid with silver, and locked.
The pages of a Blessed Book freely accept spells scribed upon them, and any such book can contain up to forty-five spells of any level. This book is never found as randomly generated treasure with spells already inscribed in it.
Caster Level: 7th; Prerequisites: Craft Wondrous Item, secret page; Market Price: 9,500 gp; Weight: 1 lb.

Does that mean I can scribe spells with no crafting xp cost or gp cost?

 

[Jolly Giant]

It's basically a money-saver:

Normally a wizard has to use up 200gp per spell-level in magical components when writing a new spell into his spellbook, but the Blessed Book allows him to write down his spells with ordinary ink without any expense.

Hope this helps...

 

[Grapeshot]

Still gotta spend the xp though?

 

[DerianCypher]

you don't expend xp when scribing a spell into a spell book

 

[BiggusGeekus]

edit: what those guys just said

 

[Grapeshot]

Ahh I'm catching on now. Didn't realize it was a spellbook. Instead I was thinking more along the lines of "What happens after you read the spell it disapears?"

Thanks for the info.

 

[Hypersmurf]

... but the Blessed Book allows him to write down his spells with ordinary ink without any expense.

I'm just going to break in here to say "Bah!".

-Hyp.

("Nothing! I got them freely!")

 

[andargor]

I'm just going to break in here to say "Bah!".

I'm just going to break in here to say "Humbug".

Andargor

 

[Cedric]

Boccob's Blessed Books are awesome, especially if your GM is a stickler for the spell scribing, spell books rules...which can be very cost prohibitive.

Cedric

 

[Hypersmurf]

Boccob's Blessed Books are awesome, especially if your GM is a stickler for the spell scribing, spell books rules...which can be very cost prohibitive.

I'm a stickler for the spell scribing, spell books rules... but I don't use the silly "official" interpretation of the BBB text.

Boccob's Blessed Book, IMO, is convenient because it lets you keep lots of spells in a nice cosy little book instead of three or four bulky tomes... not a workaround to let you scribe seventy thousand gp of spells for a cost of nine thousand.

Monte Cook can say differently all he likes... not in my campaign

-Hyp.