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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 268079" data-attributes="member: 2011">Are you smoking something again kr? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I know the difference between reading one of your posts (which I didn't btw) and vaguely remembering a calculation from a year plus ago.Note the sentence: "the cost to put all arcane spells from the PHB into spell books"The spells from the PHB, not from all books. The numbers were off a little due to me mis-remembering, but this is what it is:Spell Level - Number of Spells - Number of Pages0 - 16 - 161 - 42 - 842 - 41 - 1643 - 37 - 2224 - 38 - 3045 - 39 - 3906 - 35 - 4207 - 28 - 3928 - 26 - 4169 - 22 - 3962804 pages @ 100 GP per page = 280,400 GP = 29 booksThis is not researching the spells like James asked, merely copying them into spell books.As for your NPC’s 30 spell books being a meager portion, it might be if you consider all D20 sources, even then it would probably be more than 25%. But, if you just consider WotC sources, the PHB (and hence your NPC if his spell books are full) have a majority of the WotC spell pages generally available.Tome & Blood0 - 01 - 11 - 07 - 142 - 13 - 523 - 07 - 424 - 11 - 885 - 04 - 406 - 03 - 367 - 03 - 428 - 02 - 329 - 02 - 36383 pages @ 100 GP per page = 38,300 GP = 4 booksMagic of Faerun (including those of FRCS)0 - 04 - 41 - 17 - 342 - 22 - 883 - 19 - 1144 - 16 - 1285 - 12 - 1206 - 11 - 1327 - 10 - 1408 - 09 - 1449 - 07 - 1261030 pages @ 100 GP per page = 103,000 GP = 11 booksEpic Level Handbook10 - 47 - 940940 pages @ 100 GP per page = 94,000 GP = 10 books (remember, this is only the copying cost, not the development cost)Manual of the Planes1 - 01 - 22 - 01 - 43 - 05 - 304 - 06 - 485 - 02 - 206 - 02 - 247 - 02 - 288 - 01 - 16172 pages @ 100 GP per page = 17,200 GP = 2 booksSo, if you look at the vast majority of WotC material (excluding Dragon magazine, of which most spells are eventually recycled into other material), the PHB at 28+ books consists of about 54% of the spell pages, even after skewing the data with the ELH spells (ignoring them since they will not be used in most campaigns results in the PHB having about 64% of the spell pages).This percentage will drop over time and I probably missed a few arcane spells here and there, but 30 spell books is not exactly a meager portion of any collection of 3E D20 spells, even one that includes all 3E spells from all sources (internet, other D20 products, etc.). It's a good sized percentage.</blockquote>

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