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Message: <blockquote data-quote="5ekyu" data-source="post: 7570442" data-attributes="member: 6919838">As far as I can tell, we agree - perhaps only disagreeing on whether *wizards cannot select this PHB wizard spell as a free spell and must find it* is a house rule or setting element.The other factors are definitely setting factors/defines and setup examples of opportunity costs/buys.But, I would point out that the same scarcity (of either high level casters or high level spells) keeps moving this into very ratified elite buyer specialty thing - at a level where gold is almost certainly not the currency in vogue - which moves it way out of the OP scope which seemed more targeted at more common cases than finding a spellbook with 8th and 9th level- spells in a world with less than a dozen folks who could scribe them. In my game, I do introduce a few spells here and there that are not "available on lists" and have to be found or taught. That would make spellbooks with those a definite commodity- but still an elite purchase.  I will tend to have 1 custom spell in a set of spellbooks "acquired" at tier-2 and one more for each tier higher - based on caster level of the former owner. But that's just my campaign.</blockquote>