Can anyone explain the purpose of this wonderous item?

[Vyvyan Basterd]

Another benefit for your 9k gp that I think others are overlooking is the fact that the B^3 has a higher Save bonus than a regular old spellbook (+5 vs. [+0 or +2]?) for the cases when an unfortunate "accident" might occur.

 

[Storm Raven]

It's perfectly reasonable, as DM, to say that an item doesn't exist in your world. Any item you think is overpowered/undercosted should be considered for this. If they hadn't errata'd the price on Boots of Springing and Striding, wouldn't it be okay to simply disallow them?

The problem is that isn't what was said. What was said was "there are two possible interpetations of this item, one of which is essentially a house rule, and on that basis I will ban it from my game". Rather than saying "I will pick an interpretation that fits my home game" he said "there is mroe than one way to think about this, so I'm banning it", which makes no sense.

 

[Storm Raven]

Another benefit for your 9k gp that I think others are overlooking is the fact that the B^3 has a higher Save bonus than a regular old spellbook (+5 vs. [+0 or +2]?) for the cases when an unfortunate "accident" might occur.

A problem that only arises when you roll a "1" on a save. So its a trival benefit at best.

A problem further made less of a factor if you store your books in the qually magical Handy Haversack.

 

[vanguard13]

The Blessed Book is the wizard and bard equivalent of a PDA. You can download and store spells in it without spending extra money or experience learning how to do it. When you are done, it simply deletes itself for reuse.

 

[Skinwalker]

The Blessed Book is the wizard and bard equivalent of a PDA. You can download and store spells in it without spending extra money or experience learning how to do it. When you are done, it simply deletes itself for reuse.

??? I'm really confused by this post.
Bards spontaneously cast arcane spells.
No XP is spent to scribe spells - Are you thinking of scrolls?
Deletes itself for reuse??? Once again, are you thinking of scrolls?

 

[vanguard13]

Wizards could use the Blessed Book as a PDA in terms of putting in new spells without spending money or XP. When they want to change a spell, they simply erase it and put in the new one.
For Bards, I meant more of the scroll idea where they could take existing arcane and divine scrolls and inscribe them into the Blessed Book as a PDA where it becomes a one-time use thing. Once the inscribed spell is cast from the Blessed Book, it is gone and must be replaced with another inscribed scroll. This gives the Bard a portable, organized and convenient magic arsenal where he could simply open a book and cast a spell of one of its pages the same way he would a scroll. Obviously, used this way, the Blessed Book would become valuable to anybody that can read and cast from magic scolls.

 

[LordAO]

I don't think Wizards should have to pay to scribe spells into his spellbook. That is absurd! That makes the Wizard the only character who has to pay a fortune just to use his only class ability - spells. Just having to carry around the damned spellbook is disadvantage enough. A Celric gets every spell on his entire list - for free! Why should a Wizard have to pay money on top of the nuisance of a spellbook?!

Not in my campaign.

 

[Lord Pendragon]

I don't think Wizards should have to pay to scribe spells into his spellbook. That is absurd! That makes the Wizard the only character who has to pay a fortune just to use his only class ability - spells. Just having to carry around the damned spellbook is disadvantage enough. A Celric gets every spell on his entire list - for free! Why should a Wizard have to pay money on top of the nuisance of a spellbook?!

Item creation. If a wizard has the free time to craft magic items, and takes the appropriate feats, he more than makes up for scribing costs in the savings he gets from item creation. The problem is that this breaks down for wizards who choose not to craft items. The metamagic wizard is forced to pay the same exorbitant fees, while gaining nothing back.

 

[Will]

The wizard is also the only class who has an open ended ability to learn spells, LordAO.

If there wasn't a cost, why couldn't a wizard just work through the list and know _every spell_?

 

[Bauglir]

Well, except for the cleric, druid, paladin and ranger who automatically know every spell from their spell list, and pay nothing for it.