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<blockquote data-quote="Felix" data-source="post: 4446805" data-attributes="member: 3929">I very much recommend against this. Remember that wizard is the most expensive profession in the game. Except for the starting spells at 1st level, and the 2 free spells each level gained, it costs 100gp per spell level to enter a spell into your spellbook.Want a new 3rd level spell so you can start scribing scolls of it? Buy a scroll (375gp)Scribe it into your spellbook (300gp)Scribe that scroll! (188gp + 15xp)In order to add a spell to your book so you can scribe it once costs you 863gp. That's money you're not spending on anything else, while the fighter is working towards a better sword, the cleric nearly has a cloak of resistance +1, the rogue can buy vials of poison, etc. Jack the price of scroll components by a factor of 10, and there's no point, or profitability to studying wizardry.This is, of course, if you're enforcing the wizard scribing costs. They may have money for all those scrolls because they're not deducting the cost of putting spells in their spellbook.The retort is that a Boccob's Blessed Book removes that burden of 100gp per spell level. Which costs 12500gp, so you simply put a down payment on 125 spell levels scribed and can scribe for free after that. No low to mid level wizard is going to have the liquid capital for a BBB unless they either find one, or they come upon a hoard of gold; they'll be bleeding their capital developing their spellbook. Any gold they save is gold not being used to increase their spell versatility, which is a wizard's strength.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Felix, post: 4446805, member: 3929"] I very much recommend against this. Remember that wizard is the most expensive profession in the game. Except for the starting spells at 1st level, and the 2 free spells each level gained, it costs 100gp per spell level to enter a spell into your spellbook. Want a new 3rd level spell so you can start scribing scolls of it? Buy a scroll (375gp) Scribe it into your spellbook (300gp) Scribe that scroll! (188gp + 15xp) In order to add a spell to your book so you can scribe it [i]once[/i] costs you 863gp. That's money you're not spending on anything else, while the fighter is working towards a better sword, the cleric nearly has a cloak of resistance +1, the rogue can buy vials of poison, etc. Jack the price of scroll components by a factor of 10, and there's no point, or profitability to studying wizardry. This is, of course, if you're enforcing the wizard scribing costs. They may have money for all those scrolls because they're not deducting the cost of putting spells in their spellbook. The retort is that a Boccob's Blessed Book removes that burden of 100gp per spell level. Which costs 12500gp, so you simply put a down payment on 125 spell levels scribed and can scribe for free after that. No low to mid level wizard is going to have the liquid capital for a BBB unless they either find one, or they come upon a hoard of gold; they'll be bleeding their capital developing their spellbook. Any gold they save is gold not being used to increase their spell versatility, which is a wizard's strength. [/QUOTE]

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