Can anyone explain the purpose of this wonderous item?

[Lord Pendragon]

I don't have a problem with BBB allowing "free" scribing ala Monte Cook. After all, if it didn't provide that, it'd be no more advantageous than a Heward's Handy Haversack to put those bulky spellbooks in. And that's only 2000gp.

Then again, I don't enforce scribing costs as written, so BBB isn't as vital as it is in other campaigns.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Then again, I don't enforce scribing costs as written, so BBB isn't as vital as it is in other campaigns.

I figure, if you're going to whinge about scribing costs, play a sorcerer or join the Arcane Order.

-Hyp.

 

[geezerjoe]

plus the BBB allows for 45 spells of any level ... especially helpful if your DM follows the old 1d6-1 + spell level # of pages per spell scribed into your book ... a few 7th - 9th level spells can eat up some real estage quickly ... heck a few 1st level spells and bad rolls can eat your book up too

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Joe2Old

 

[Hypersmurf]

plus the BBB allows for 45 spells of any level ... especially helpful if your DM follows the old 1d6-1 + spell level # of pages per spell scribed into your book ... a few 7th - 9th level spells can eat up some real estage quickly ... heck a few 1st level spells and bad rolls can eat your book up too

3E uses 2 pages per level.

-Hyp.

 

[Maitre Du Donjon]

3E uses 2 pages per level.

-Hyp.

min 1 page for cantrips

Maitre D

 

[Storm Raven]

I figure, if you're going to whinge about scribing costs, play a sorcerer or join the Arcane Order.

Exactly how does joining the Arcane Order help you htere? It doesn't reduce scribing costs, and you can only call half your caster level from the spell pool on a given day. For an 8th level Wizard (for example), that gives you flexibility with one 4th level spell per day. Whoopee.

 

[Storm Raven]

plus the BBB allows for 45 spells of any level ... especially helpful if your DM follows the old 1d6-1 + spell level # of pages per spell scribed into your book ... a few 7th - 9th level spells can eat up some real estage quickly ... heck a few 1st level spells and bad rolls can eat your book up too

Of course, then you wouldn't be using the 3e scribing rules, so your comment is beside the point.

 

[Storm Raven]

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...

Ah, an interpretation that makes the BBB a more expensive and less versatile replacement for the Handy Haversack or any of the various Bags of Holding. Good idea.

Basically, you have decided that the BBB is an item only a moron would acquire. I'm sure that makes you feel special.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Ah, an interpretation that makes the BBB a more expensive and less versatile replacement for the Handy Haversack or any of the various Bags of Holding. Good idea.

Yup. I see the Book as a prestige and style thing. Like really little cellphones. They don't actually do the job any better than a big clunky cellphone, but they look cool.

I personally feel it fits the 9000gp price tag far better than the scribe-70k-of-spells-for-free interpretation... which makes it an "Only a moron wouldn't have it" item.

-Hyp.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Exactly how does joining the Arcane Order help you htere? It doesn't reduce scribing costs, and you can only call half your caster level from the spell pool on a given day. For an 8th level Wizard (for example), that gives you flexibility with one 4th level spell per day. Whoopee.

But over the course of a month or so, you could cast every 4th level spell in the PHB, with no scribing costs.

-Hyp.