Does a Wizard's Spellbook Count Towards Standard Wealth?

[nittanytbone]

It should count against character wealth. You'd charge the fighter for his +1 longsword or those potions of Enlarge Person he has in his backpack, right?

 

[Felix]

If I am keeping the costs of 100gp a page, I ban Boccob's blessed book. It's too cost efficent.

Unless you have the (common) house rule of disallowing any one item at character generation to be worth more than 1/3 of your starting wealth.

I don't have my books on me, but wouldn't that limit it to wizards starting at at least 8th level, and spells 4th level and higher?

And at ~10,000gp a pop, a wizard has to scribe quite a few spells into it to take advantage of the free scribing costs. 10,000gp is the equivalent of the scribing costs of four 5th level, ten 4th level, five 3rd level, 8 2nd level, and nine 1st level spells. This is a prodigious number of spells.

At low levels, the initial fixed cost of the BBB isn't worth it.

At high levels, however, it's plum necessary. But at that point, you'd think Wizards as a whole would figure a way around their class' biggest flammable money-sink.