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<blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 408861" data-attributes="member: 99">I'm afraid that I'm going to have to go with &quot;or what&quot;.&nbsp; This isn't your fault, Azazu.&nbsp; It is an artifact of the (IMHO) extremely screwed up situation that is &quot;Wizard's Spellbooks&quot; in 3E.Imagine that you were trying to sell a car for $10,000.&nbsp; But the trick is that nobody can actually drive the car.&nbsp; All they can do is use it as a guide for how to build their own car, which would cost another $10,000.&nbsp; Do you think they would pay you the full amount?A spellbook is only useful to a Wizard for access to the spells that it contains.&nbsp; In other words, a spellbook with 5 first level spells is worth no more than the same 5 first level spells on Scrolls (i.e. 125gp total).&nbsp; In fact, it could be argued that it should be worth less than that considering that you can do something with the scrolls (cast the spell directly from them) that you can't do with the spellbook.For a quick an dirty calculation, use the cost of each spell as though it were a scroll.&nbsp; That formula falls apart for spells 5th level and higher though because the cost to scribe a scroll becomes higher than the cost to scribe it into a spellbook.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rel, post: 408861, member: 99"] I'm afraid that I'm going to have to go with "or what". This isn't your fault, Azazu. It is an artifact of the (IMHO) extremely screwed up situation that is "Wizard's Spellbooks" in 3E. Imagine that you were trying to sell a car for $10,000. But the trick is that nobody can actually drive the car. All they can do is use it as a guide for how to build their own car, which would cost another $10,000. Do you think they would pay you the full amount? A spellbook is only useful to a Wizard for access to the spells that it contains. In other words, a spellbook with 5 first level spells is worth no more than the same 5 first level spells on Scrolls (i.e. 125gp total). In fact, it could be argued that it should be worth less than that considering that you can do something with the scrolls (cast the spell directly from them) that you can't do with the spellbook. For a quick an dirty calculation, use the cost of each spell as though it were a scroll. That formula falls apart for spells 5th level and higher though because the cost to scribe a scroll becomes higher than the cost to scribe it into a spellbook. [/QUOTE]

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