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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lucius Foxhound" data-source="post: 533796" data-attributes="member: 6593">Re: Selling SpellbooksI think you're missing something important, though.  Scrolls are much more valuable than scribed spells. Here's why:1. Any components needed for the spell (even valuable ones) are included in a scroll.2. Arcane scrolls can be cast by any arcane Wizard with a read magic spell.  You have to learn what's in a spell book. So technically, until you learn it, a scribed spell is useless.3. Scrolls can be still copied into a spellbook just like a scribed spell. So really, a scribed spell should be LESS than a scroll.  As such, thinking about my Wizard and the spells he needs, the system I've come up with is that scribed spells are worth 1/2 their scrolled value. Let's say my Wizard wants to get a disintegrate spell.  He can go out and buy a scroll for 1,650 gp.   With that scroll in hand, he can either a) keep it around a read it whenever he wants or b) go our and spend 700 gp to scribe it in his book.  So I'd say a page from a spellbook with disintergrate on it (actually 7 pages) would cost 825 gp.  After all, it's only got one use and I still have to spend an additional 700 gp to scribe it into a spellbook.</blockquote>