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Message: <blockquote data-quote="77IM" data-source="post: 6613658" data-attributes="member: 12377">I value scrolls at (spell level x spell level x 50) gp. That undervalues high-level scrolls according to the pricing guidelines, but I am not sure I care, as I'd rather have an easy-to-remember formula than stick to the arbitrary pricing guidelines.So I'd value a spellbook at the same rate. Spells in a book are less useful than scrolls because you can't cast them -- but for the purpose people are buying the spellbook they are more useful than scrolls because they don't vanish after writing, giving the book tremendous resale value. So it's a wash and I'd price it like a bunch of scrolls.Adding up all those spell levels can be a pain, so a quick-and-dirty approximation is to just look at the highest level of spells and do (spell level x spell level x spell level x 100) gp. So a book with 3rd-level spells in it is worth 2,700 gp, and a book with 9th-level spells is 72,900 gp. This assumes that the book also contains about 4 spells per level at lower levels; if the spell book is sparse, cut the value in half or so.Of course, I'd use the Selling a Magic Item rules in the DMG to offload the book. I'm of the opinion that trade in magic items should be allowed, but only as a tricky and adventure-prone process.EDIT: Handy table of pre-calculated values.Max Spell Level : Spellbook Price1st : 50 gp per spell (just add them up, if it's only 1st-level spells)2nd : 800 gp (total; don't count the spells at levels higher than 1st)3rd : 2,700 gp4th : 6,400 gp5th : 12,500 gp6th : 21,600 gp7th : 34,300 gp8th : 51,200 gp9th : 72,900 gp</blockquote>

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