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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nyeshet" data-source="post: 3155026" data-attributes="member: 18363">The FR setting has a spell for copying non-magical writings. Perhaps an improved version of this spell (ie: bumped up a level or two) could also copy magical writings? Perhaps having an XP cost to make up for the fact that it could allow for copying spells into a spellbook without costly inks, etc? Or maybe . . .What about that Geomancer special that allows for all spells copied to only require a single page? Perhaps it could be made a feat instead? Perhaps another feat might notably lower the cost of adding spells to a spellbook. Surely it would be a feat most wizards would take, so perhaps it could become a class level ability (perhaps 3rd level for this Geomancer one - which due to limiting the page number should also lower the cost to scribe the spell, 8th for the one that (further) reduces spell scribing costs, 13th level for a further reduction of some type, and 18th level for yet another reduction (maybe requiring only a skill check and a vial of normal ink by this point?). If nothing else it would further encourage non-multiclassing, as those that focused on other aspects of magic than pure arcane lore and scholastic spell gathering / construction would not benefit from the decreased cost of inscribing new spells. Or maybe the Geomancer page-reduction special would be gained at 7th level, the decreased cost per scribing spell at 12th level, and the reduction to a mere skill check and negligible gp cost of a vial of colored ink at 17th level would work better?Or perhaps . . . What about spellbooks themselves? Perhaps the base blank spellbook could be removed and replaced with something a bit more magical? Less prone to damage, more pages, etc? Considering only the Wizard (and perhaps the Archivist) would benefit from such an item, it should receive a discount to its cost. (Now that I consider it, this is perhaps one of the only times I could see allowing a PC the option of using the specified-class discount.)</blockquote>

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