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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 7855018" data-attributes="member: 6801228">I did read it. Are you telling me that if a PC was to hire themselves out as a messenger between cities they wouldn't get paid the same as any other messenger? In fact, I can prove that those values do apply to PCs. Look under "Skilled Hireling", it says 2 gp a day. Now turn to page 187, where under "Practicing a Profession" it says that if you are a member of an organization, like a Guild, you can afford to maintain a "Comfortable lifestyle". Checking back on lifestyle costs that is... 2 gold a day. The exact same as a skilled hireling, which makes sense for someone who is guild affiliated. If you are not part of an organization, you make 1 gold a day, which makes sense for a traveling figure with no credibility. So, I see no reason why we should say that the people in the street ask for someone's "Non-Player Character Card" before deciding how much money to pay them for a service.So, scrolls can only be cast if someone has the spell in the scroll on their spell list. Scrolls are only useful for the class they belong to, or thieves. Next, since a spellbook can be scribed to copy into your personal retinue, and they allow you to cast rituals indefinetly, unlike a scroll which can only be used once, it would be reasonable to assume they are worth at least the same amount. Even if that were not true, we do know a base value for a spellbook, because the cost of making one is laid out in the wizard class. 50 gp per level of spell. So, an Archmage has 4 first, 3 second, 3 third, 3 fourth, 3 fifth, and 1 each of sixt thru ninth. (50*4)+(100*3)+(150*3)+(200*3)+(250*3)+300+350+400+450 = 3,800 gold at a bare minimum. Most things in DnD economics cost twice as much to buy as they do to make, so I'd say the average price of that spellbook would be 7,600 gold. And, since you need to respend the cost in making copies of your own book in case it is destroyed, buying a book would likely be tempting to wizards who do not want to spend the hours scribing, even if it was full of spells they already had.</blockquote>

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