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<blockquote data-quote="Cloudgatherer" data-source="post: 252661" data-attributes="member: 66">I don't see a problem here whatsoever.The price to fill up a &quot;normal&quot; spellbook is 100 GP a page times 100 pages, so that is 10,000 GP.BBB costs 9500 GP.&nbsp; It is a magic item, it does not help (directly) in combat, it has an increased spell holding capacity and can accept spell on its pages without monetary cost.&nbsp; These are all decent magic item abilities.However, any wizard of sufficient level (subjective) will likely have a backup spellbook (or three).&nbsp; Unless he has a few BBB, he'll need to keep &quot;regular&quot; copies of his spells in a spellbook somewhere else.Besides all this, where exactly is said wizard going to *find* 45 9th level spells?&nbsp; More realistically, I would guess the avg spell level to be around 4th or 5th, as there are more low level spells than there are higher ones.My last point has to deal with scribing itself.&nbsp; When I was playing, it was kind of a downer for me to spend a couple thousand of GP scribing spells while the rest of the party bought &quot;stuff&quot;.Fighter:&nbsp; &quot;Look Mr. Wizard, I bought myself a new masterwork sword, a horse, a waterclock, and a small cottage in the woods!&quot;Wizard:&nbsp; &quot;Yeah, um, I can now cast a few more spells....but only if I prepare them that day....&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cloudgatherer, post: 252661, member: 66"] I don't see a problem here whatsoever. The price to fill up a "normal" spellbook is 100 GP a page times 100 pages, so that is 10,000 GP. BBB costs 9500 GP. It is a magic item, it does not help (directly) in combat, it has an increased spell holding capacity and can accept spell on its pages without monetary cost. These are all decent magic item abilities. However, any wizard of sufficient level (subjective) will likely have a backup spellbook (or three). Unless he has a few BBB, he'll need to keep "regular" copies of his spells in a spellbook somewhere else. Besides all this, where exactly is said wizard going to *find* 45 9th level spells? More realistically, I would guess the avg spell level to be around 4th or 5th, as there are more low level spells than there are higher ones. My last point has to deal with scribing itself. When I was playing, it was kind of a downer for me to spend a couple thousand of GP scribing spells while the rest of the party bought "stuff". Fighter: "Look Mr. Wizard, I bought myself a new masterwork sword, a horse, a waterclock, and a small cottage in the woods!" Wizard: "Yeah, um, I can now cast a few more spells....but only if I prepare them that day...." [/QUOTE]

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