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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TiCaudata" data-source="post: 3649985" data-attributes="member: 40077">nope I don't see.  We never level up until there is a story break ANYWAY, so there would be time to get new spells.  Hmm, that time when we first beat the first branch of the cult is a counter example.  Can you pre-copy spells into your book?  I seem to think that the practice is not prohibited.  If you can, you should be able to have at least one new spell one level higher than you are ready to go when you level up.  By writing it down before hand, the time lag is removed for the rare cases where you need to kill the baddie the next day.I think we are agreeing on alot of the rest.  I agree that once you have deciphered a text with the spellcraft thing you should be able to have access to the spells in a book that you completely control.  I think the RAW rule was trying to keep a situation where there are a couple wizards in a party, and they just put different spells in their books thereby having twice as many spells as they "should".Additional notes:  No, they are worth 50 gp a page, the same as after you copy what spells you want and sell it.  It makes COMPLETE sense that something you physically wrote would take less time to read and study than something someone else did.  Reading my handwriting should be proof enough for that, and I'm not even using a "for my eyes only" magical script.Who says you have to rest etc etc?  A dedicated person pursuing knowledge would totally be willing to spend 16 at least.  However, I think that worthley's idea might be sound, but that the base time should be at least 8 hours.  It makessense that a level one character should take a similar amount of effort to scribe a lvl 1 spell as a lvl 17 wizard would take to write a 9th lvl spell.  Spells of a lower level should take less time, higher levels (if possible) should take more.  One hour per level of spell lower would probably make sense.  For higher level spells I think the scale should be more severe.</blockquote>

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