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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DalkonCledwin" data-source="post: 5984937" data-attributes="member: 6680145">I meant 5 9th level spells. And I have yet to meet a spellcaster who hasn't filled up half or more of a mundane spellbook with nothing but 9th or 8th level spells. They are kind of exclusive to the other spells in the level ranges.Also, if I wanted to go along and say that "Keep it Simple" really were the motto of LPF, then you guys would be giving <a href="http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/wondrous-items/wondrous-items/a-b/book-blessed" target="_blank">these books</a> as free gifts to all spellcasters that utilize spellbooks capable of casting level 4 or higher spells. But I doubt that is going to happen.Also, the core rule book says that the process is the same to learn the spell. But copying the spell from the source material is vastly different. The reason that copying the spell from a scroll costs more is because scrolls require a great deal more time and effort to construct (taking at least 2 hours to make as opposed to a spellbooks minimum of 1 hour of study). Additionally you also have the fact that when a merchant sells a scroll that they have to sell it at a certain price if they wish to make a profit (that being the base price as indicated in the scribe scroll feat). Copying a spell from a friends spellbook has no set charge associated with it other than the cost of Ink. Requiring an individual to pay for Ink that costs the same amount as the Mark Up on a Scroll is Incredulous. I mean I have heard of some brands of high quality Ink in our own world that costs upwards a few hundred dollars. But nothing approaching the scale of 4,000+ Gold Pieces.Now I think it is fair to explain something here. A Gold Piece as described in Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 is 1/50th of a Pound of Pure Gold. 4,000 Gold Pieces is the approximate equivalent of 80 pounds of pure gold. That would be the equivalent of 2,060,774.4 US Dollars. I don't know about you, but that is a rediculously insane price for ink that no one in their right mind would pay for. Not even Voldemort.To put things into perspective, that 150 GP Starting Wealth is roughly the equivalent of 77,279.04 US Dollars. To think how much stuff we could actually buy with 150 GP in the real world when compared to the scrap that we start with in Pathfinder.</blockquote>

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