Need clarification on the blessed book

[Lord Pendragon]

Hello all!

My wizard recently acquired a Boccob's Blessed Book, but after reading the entry on it in the SRD, I'm in need of a bit of clarification regarding its properties.

Now I do know that it's waterproof, always locked, and accepts up to 45 spells of any level. What I want to know is if it has reduced scribing cost, reduced scribing time, neither, or both. The line that it "freely accepts spells of any level" has me stumped. What exactly does "freely" mean?

Any help would be great. I'm looking for both the actual ruling (if it's been written somewhere, a reference would be great!) and also how DMs have treated it in the past.

Thanks in advance for any input.

 

[AGGEMAM]

I'm surprised that you don't know this is one of the most debated issues here on the board. Well it was 6 months ago. No official ruling has surfaced to my knowledge.

Given the price of the blessed book I would rule that you can scribe spells into it without any costs what-so-ever.

 

[Targos]

I believe the two popular answers for this is:
A) Costs no gold to scribe
B) Costs gold to scribe per page; however, it only costs 100gp because it only requires one page. (The standard for a regular book is 2 pages per spell level and each page takes a day and a 100gp) - I hope thats right, I'm a bit sleep deprived at the moment.

Regarding the time to scribe I'd off the top of my head I'd say one day because it only takes one page. I'm sure theres plenty of posts out there I haven't seen and maybe even a sage ruling. In any event its much better than a regular book even if you do have to pay that 100gp to scribe.

 

[Lord Pendragon]

I'm surprised that you don't know this is one of the most debated issues here on the board. Well it was 6 months ago. No official ruling has surfaced to my knowledge.

I'm surprised myself, AGGEMAM! I've been around for the last year or so regularly, but this particular debate must have slipped by me. Thanks for the advice!

Targos: Thanks for the advice! The page-logic does make sense. I'll give it to my DM and see what he says. I should note that scribing costs have already been waived in the campaign I'm playing. However, scribing time is quite an issue, as we're currently playing in a "save the world" sort of scenario, and it's rare that we get a single day off, let alone a week!