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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7941509" data-attributes="member: 6779196"><p>I think the most by-the-book answer would be 25 gp + 10 gp per level per spell written in it.</p><p></p><p>How I arrived at this number: A blank spell book costs 50 gp according to the adventuring gear table, and players are able to sell adventuring gear at half its market value. Crafting an item usually costs half the item’s market value in crafting supplies according to the PHB downtime rules, and copying a spell into a spell book is said to require 50 gp worth of material components and expensive inks per level of the spell. If we consider this to be equivalent to the cost of the supplies to “craft” a spell book, its market value should be 20 gp per level per spell (plus the base 50 gp for the book itself,) and players should be able to sell it for half of that.</p><p></p><p>This is kinda neat because if all the spells in the spell book are new to the wizard, they can copy them all and then sell the book to offset the cost of copying them, leaving them with a net gain of 25 gp, same as if they had just found and sold a blank spellbook. If they already know any of the spells in it, (or if no one in the party is a wizard) those spells are still valuable to them as treasure, with higher level spells being worth more.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 7941509, member: 6779196"] I think the most by-the-book answer would be 25 gp + 10 gp per level per spell written in it. How I arrived at this number: A blank spell book costs 50 gp according to the adventuring gear table, and players are able to sell adventuring gear at half its market value. Crafting an item usually costs half the item’s market value in crafting supplies according to the PHB downtime rules, and copying a spell into a spell book is said to require 50 gp worth of material components and expensive inks per level of the spell. If we consider this to be equivalent to the cost of the supplies to “craft” a spell book, its market value should be 20 gp per level per spell (plus the base 50 gp for the book itself,) and players should be able to sell it for half of that. This is kinda neat because if all the spells in the spell book are new to the wizard, they can copy them all and then sell the book to offset the cost of copying them, leaving them with a net gain of 25 gp, same as if they had just found and sold a blank spellbook. If they already know any of the spells in it, (or if no one in the party is a wizard) those spells are still valuable to them as treasure, with higher level spells being worth more. [/QUOTE]
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