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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aberzanzorax" data-source="post: 5420909" data-attributes="member: 64209">Pathfinder spell costs and versatility along with wealth by level.All info from <a href="http://www.d20pfsrd.com" target="_blank">www.d20pfsrd.com</a> mainly from <a href="http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic" target="_blank">http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic</a> *but I couldn't find their "included chart" for spell costs...I pulled that from the actual book. I assume it is open content. If not, I will delete what needs to be deleted. "In most cases, wizards charge a fee for the privilege of copying spells from their spellbooks. This fee is usually equal to half the cost to write the spell into a spellbook." Pathfinder spell costs:Lvl - writing into book alone - final cost including buying from another wizard0 - 5 - 7.51 - 10 - 152 - 40 - 603 - 90 - 1204 - 160 - 2405 - 250 - 3756 - 360 - 5407 - 490 - 7358 - 640 - 9609 - 810 - 1,215  Thought Experiment: How versatile could a "naked wizard be"? That is, assuming buying ONLY spells (no magic items, no mount, no spell components even) and having standard wealth per level, how many spells would the wizard know? Also, it is assumed the highest lvl spells the caster can cast are the ones bought (so at char lvl 3, the caster only buys lvl 2 spells). Zero level spells are ignored, as are "free spells" including those known for free at lvl 1 and the 2 learned at each lvl. Level - Character Wealth - Spells Purchased1 - 70 - 4 lvl 12 - 1,000 - 62 more lvl 13 - 3,000 - 33 lvl 24 - 6,000 - 50 more lvl 25 - 10,500 - 37 lvl 36 - 16,000 - 45 more lvl 37 - 23,500 - 31 lvl 48 - 33,000 - 39 more lvl 49 - 46,000 - 34 lvl 510 - 62,000 - 42 more lvl 511 - 82,000 - 37 lvl 612 - 108,000 - 48 more lvl 613 - 140,000 - 43 lvl 714 - 185,000 - 61 more lvl 7 Annnd I'm stopping there. This chart actually showed me a surprise...that the decreased cost of spells, particularly lower level spells from the SRD to Pathfinder give a wizard a LOT more versatility. It goes somewhat counter to what I had been thinking...that wizard versatility was enforced throught the cost of their spells. But, there it is, there's the math. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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