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Message: <blockquote data-quote="painandgreed" data-source="post: 1977984" data-attributes="member: 24969">If anything, I think spells costs are too expensive. For a non-adventurer, 10 GP times spell caster level for a 1st level spell is a huge amount of money. While adventurers might be able to afford them, even nobles would have issues with paying these rates, particularly for the work it required to cast. A cleric who charged by the book would not get any takers from the local community and probably be run out of town for charging prices nobody could afford while people's family and realatives died off when they could have been saved.IMC, each community has a cleric or in urban settings belongs to a church. Each family tithes 10% of their earnings to their church and in return get free healing. The prices int he book are for non-church members who have come into town and seek to drain off the resources from the community that actually supports the cleric. Of course, I allow PCs to belong to a particular church if they promise to tithe 10% of their earnings and in return get free clerical spells within reason, as a 1st level church member may not rate a Raise but a 10th level who brings in thousands of gold every month for tithes would. The church might even send people out to recover the body.Wizards are another case as they are not typically supported by the community (again IMC). The price as listed is for the independantly wealthy wizards who don't want to be disturbed unless it is worth their while. For the less affluent spell caster who survives by hanging out a shingle and casting detects, read magics, and mends, the price is more like a tenth of listed. However, the price goes back up the second they get the hint of anything dangerous. A lot of this is RP as unknown adventurers bringing things out of the blue are sure to get charged book prices because who knows what they have and what it might do, while known members of the community with safer items would rate the lower charges. Once I feel that NPC has developed a rampart with the adventurers and a measure of trust, not to mention if they're spending lots of money on higher level spells, they probably won't sweat the costs of a few 0th and 1st level spells at all.</blockquote>

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