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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 7570229" data-attributes="member: 2629">Let's say you find a spellbook with 3 3rd level spells, 5 second level spells and 10 first level spells.  You take it to a large city and put it up for auction with a fine auction house with connections in the wizard community.High level wizards (11+) look at it and see a lot of spells they know, and if they do not know it, it is likely just a curiosity.  They may make a minimal bid, but ... come on.  Why break the bank for a few additional spells that were not important enough to learn by this point?  Maybe if there is an interesting and unique spell it might be worth an investment, but perhaps they can share it with a few of their friends and split a bid...Medium level wizards (7 to 10) also likely have some some of these spells, so those are meaningless to them.  There may be a few spells new to them... but if they want to use those spells, they need to copy them from this spellbook into their spellbook.  So, beyone buying the book, they have some pretty high costs.  And that competes with their goals of acquiring magic items, building a tower, etc....  Lower level wizards (1 to 6) may find a good number of spells in such a book that would help them develop an array of spells that is impressive for their level... but how much can they afford to spend on it if they also have to pay to copy it into their books?The most likely to purchase such a book would be a wizard in that mod category - just powerful enough to cast all the spells int he book, likely to need some, and with enough resources to spend some coin on it.My current enchanter has discovered 4 spellbooks.  He ended up copying a few spells from each into his spellbook.  There are dozens of spells in these books that he does not know, that he will not bother to copy into his spellbook, and that he would never prepare.  To be honest, the spellbooks did not really add to his abilities.  If he never found a single spell to add to his spelbook, his prepared spells and rituals would be about the same as they are now.  At level 17 you have 38 spells from leveling/advancing.  You can generally prepare 22.  That allows you 16 spells for rituals and 'conditional' spells to sub in for certain conditions (or spells you have 'outgrown').  That is fine.All in all - Spellbooks actually provide little value to another spellcaster.  The value would be highly conditional based upon who is in the customer base, and there are conflicting forces that drive down the price (the more resources you have to spend, the less you need it).</blockquote>

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