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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 7855143" data-attributes="member: 93670">The fact that wotc forgot to include such a simple thing as guidelines for copying from spellbooks of other wizards &amp; selling a spellbook found when such things existed in prior editions is intensely germane to the question of&nbsp; <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/ua-spell-versatility-a-deeper-dive.668407/page-15#post-7854995" target="_blank">&quot;I wonder how much an Archmage's spellbook sells for on the open market.&quot;</a>&nbsp; because WotC has at no point in the entirety of 5e given even a vague guideline for that answer.&nbsp; It's also relevant to assessing if your attempt to generate something to answer by calculating sale price by the cost of scribing every spell in that spellbook or trying to sell a scroll version of every spell in that spellbook <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/ua-spell-versatility-a-deeper-dive.668407/post-7855000" target="_blank">here</a> was even on the same planet as a reasonable answer [SPOILER=&quot;(It's not)&quot;](it's not)[/SPOILER].&nbsp; Don't forget, the reason why the cost of doing these things is relevant is because people have suggested simply doing them as a way of dismissing the fact that WotC has made spellbooks bizarrely rare in 5e (lmop has a side quest about one &amp; a necromancer but no spellbook for example). Meanwhile we are talking about something that absolves sorcerer from the need to find spellbooks, spend money, or be limited to anything but class spell list whilegaining the ability to change a spell during a long rest.I don't know what version of d&amp;d you could cast a spell directly from a spellbook you found as if it were a scroll, perhaps 4e? but it's certainly not the case in 5e &amp; doesn't seem to be the case from my memory or quick searching for &quot;from a spellbook&quot; in the 3.5 phb.&nbsp; It certainly doesn't seem to be related to how you prepared spells from a spellbook into spell slots back then.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 7855143, member: 93670"] The fact that wotc forgot to include such a simple thing as guidelines for copying from spellbooks of other wizards & selling a spellbook found when such things existed in prior editions is intensely germane to the question of [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/ua-spell-versatility-a-deeper-dive.668407/page-15#post-7854995']"I wonder how much an Archmage's spellbook sells for on the open market."[/URL] because WotC has at no point in the entirety of 5e given even a vague guideline for that answer. It's also relevant to assessing if your attempt to generate [I]something[/I] to answer by calculating sale price by the cost of scribing every spell in that spellbook or trying to sell a scroll version of every spell in that spellbook [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/ua-spell-versatility-a-deeper-dive.668407/post-7855000']here[/URL] was even on the same planet as a reasonable answer [SPOILER="(It's not)"](it's not)[/SPOILER]. Don't forget, the reason why the cost of doing these things is relevant is because people have suggested simply doing them as a way of dismissing the fact that WotC has made spellbooks bizarrely rare in 5e [I](lmop has a side quest about one & a necromancer but no spellbook for example)[/I]. Meanwhile we are talking about something that absolves sorcerer from the need to find spellbooks, spend money, or be limited to anything but class spell list whilegaining the ability to change a spell during a long rest. I don't know what version of d&d you could cast a spell directly from a spellbook you found as if it were a scroll, perhaps 4e? but it's certainly not the case in 5e & doesn't seem to be the case from my memory or quick searching for "from a spellbook" in the 3.5 phb. It certainly doesn't seem to be related to how you prepared spells from a spellbook into spell slots back then. [/QUOTE]

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