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<blockquote data-quote="5ekyu" data-source="post: 7570116" data-attributes="member: 6919838">Because the purchaser saves nothing but time in purchasing a spellbook, it's an opportunity thing, nothing more. A wizard can choose any spell, two, free when they level and still has to pay to scribe any spell in the spellbook you sell them. So, unless it's got some spell they cannot get free later or that they really need now, it's just convenience purchase. So its value is gonna be more like a collectable item, very subjective, unless some organizing body chooses to try and set a baseline price - by themselves purchasing spellbooks based on that cost structure.Such might be done by a mage guild in a high fantasy high civilized campaign. I would likely base it on the expected wealth chart per level of character - maybe 10%. But then, for individual spells and wizards, maybe a rental plan is better - price by the hour. Maybe at banquet meal prices?But the mechanics in 5e fo not match the notion of &quot;rare and expensive&quot; for typical wizard spellbooks **because** the automatic spells are free and the spellbook ones cost. If the automatic ones cost ABC and the spellbook copied ones cost say half as much, then you would have a setup that says &quot;spellbooks have value.&quot; But for RAW, outside of opportunity sales to specific needs &quot;I want this spell now even more than I want the gold to scribe it&quot; other folks' spellbooks are less valuable than a blank spellbook.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="5ekyu, post: 7570116, member: 6919838"] Because the purchaser saves nothing but time in purchasing a spellbook, it's an opportunity thing, nothing more. A wizard can choose any spell, two, free when they level and still has to pay to scribe any spell in the spellbook you sell them. So, unless it's got some spell they cannot get free later or that they really need now, it's just convenience purchase. So its value is gonna be more like a collectable item, very subjective, unless some organizing body chooses to try and set a baseline price - by themselves purchasing spellbooks based on that cost structure. Such might be done by a mage guild in a high fantasy high civilized campaign. I would likely base it on the expected wealth chart per level of character - maybe 10%. But then, for individual spells and wizards, maybe a rental plan is better - price by the hour. Maybe at banquet meal prices? But the mechanics in 5e fo not match the notion of "rare and expensive" for typical wizard spellbooks **because** the automatic spells are free and the spellbook ones cost. If the automatic ones cost ABC and the spellbook copied ones cost say half as much, then you would have a setup that says "spellbooks have value." But for RAW, outside of opportunity sales to specific needs "I want this spell now even more than I want the gold to scribe it" other folks' spellbooks are less valuable than a blank spellbook. [/QUOTE]

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