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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Christian" data-source="post: 3044622" data-attributes="member: 381">I'm sorry, I still don't get this. The fact that it costs 100 GP per page to scribe the spells, doesn't make the spellbook worth 100 GP per page. After all, another wizard can't prepare the spells from that spellbook--she needs to first scribe them into her spellbook. At 100 GP per page ... That makes a page of a zero-level spell value to another wizard equal, at most, the value of a scroll of a zero-level spell, 12.5 GP, and probably less. (Since the scroll could also be used to cast the spell once.) All of those thugs will get a nasty surprise trying to sell those spellbooks for thousands of gold pieces when they get fifty, "Meh, I already have all those spells in my book," followed by one, "Hey, there's one zero-level spell I don't have--I'll give you 5 GP for that page."They people you want to rob are the ones selling the ink & materials to the wizards. Those guys are the ones with the tens of thousands of GP worth of stuff, and with a market of rich wizards waiting to buy it. Although, those wizards may not be happy to do business with the guy that gacked their regular supplier & took his stuff, now that I think about it, so this may not be a very good long-term career choice.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /></blockquote>