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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cybertalus" data-source="post: 1371017" data-attributes="member: 4400">I would say yes to spellbooks.  Despite the costs associated with creating them, spellbooks don't seem to have any innate magical properties of their own.  They're just very expensive mundane books full of the instructions a trained caster needs in order to cast spells.  Though one problem initially might be that every wizard has their own spell notation, so if Bigby's spellbooks are churned off the printing press, Evard, Tenser, Khelben, and Raistlin aren't going to be able to prepare spells out of them until they've copied the spells into their own spellbooks using their own notations.  If printing spellbooks on a printing press became common what you would probably see happen is that spellbook notation would become standardized over time and wizards would be able to then prepare spells from off the shelf spellbooks.You might want to ask, however, if wizards would allow their spellbooks to be mass produced, and if there would be enough of a market to justify anyone wanting to mass produce them in any case.I would say no to this for a couple of different reasons.  For one thing this ability is somewhere between the power of 9th level spells and an uber-artifact.  Wish is the only spell I can find in the core rules which can create permanent magic items.  Even a Wish spell can't create a single scroll of Wish, something a printing press capable of mass producing scrolls could presumably churn out by the hundreds or thousands.  Additionally the "flavor" just seems wrong.  Magic is powerful, but mysterious.  It isn't just science with different rules.  Magic can do very powerful things, but each magical effect is a unique expression of a single living (or occasionally undead) creature's ability to use magic.  Magic should never be able to be mass produced.d20 Modern allows for spellbooks on PDAs, although it doesn't deal with faxing scrolls (a neat idea though, especially for attack spells-- read the fax, get hit with a Magic Missile), it does have a few spells that deal specifically with modern technology, such as a spell to power electronics when the batteries are dead.While I don't know what the d20 Future will hold, I just want to state right now that I am vehemently opposed to any form of spellcasting robots, computers, or artificial intelligences.</blockquote>

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