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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cheiromancer" data-source="post: 3043589" data-attributes="member: 141">Well, this is an easy dial to adjust.  You only have to change one rule.  It's trivial compared to going through and changing the spell seed formula to [(spell level x 2) + 4].  Or to further fine tune those spell seeds to reflect the variety of casting times and components of the base spells.According to the DMG, new spells cost 1000 gp/spell level and take 1 week/spell level to research.  The spellcraft check is pretty easy; only 10 + spell level.  I should hope that a 21st level wizard with maxed out spellcraft could make a DC 20 check to learn a 10th level spell.As written it will cost 24,000 gold and 960 xp to learn the USP 24 spell that corresponds to a 10th level spell.  Only 24 days though, as opposed to 70.  If 1 xp = 5 gp (the usual conversion rate) then you've tripled the cost in order to reduce the research time to about 1/3.  And you've even added in the option of doubling the time in order to halve the cost; this makes epic spell research even more similar to standard spell research (50% more expensive at 2/3 the time).I don't know if the spell research rules in the DMG are any good, though.  I've never seen them used.  Folks just buy scrolls instead.  (Is the "copy from a scroll" formula the one you are going to use for tablets?)I suspect that the cost should increase quadratically with the difficulty of the spell. But I doubt this a surprise to you; you know I like to square numbers! How about USP squared times 50?  28 800 gp for a USP 24 spell (20% more than now), but a USP 40 spell will cost 80,000 gp, twice its current cost.  And higher level spells will cost even more; USP 60 is 180,000, for example, three times what the current rule suggests.</blockquote>

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