What happens when a disjunction hits a blessed book?

[Votan]

So what effect would the spell have on a normal spellbook, given there is nothing specifically magical about the pages in either a blessed book or a normal spellbook, or the spells in either (just the process of writing spells into it)?

Okay, the normal spellbook would be completely unaffected as nothing I am aware of makes it susceptable to either dispel magic or disjunction effects (nor is there any reason to strongly suspect that it would be). The default way to interpret the Blessed Book involves both magical scribing (lower cost) as well as display (1000 pages in one inch). You lose the ability to scribe for less and I'd be pretty skeptical that you'd be able to read the resulting pages as the disply function is gone too.

A very generous approach would be to hav the spellbook transform into a non-magical 1000 page book and be quite cumbersome. I think this is against the most logical interpretation of the magical elements involved. However, since RAW is vague on the point, I'd not argue that anybody with this view was actually incorrect.

 

[Hypersmurf]

So you feel 1000 pages can nonmagicly fit in that one inch thick book?

Well, the novel next to me has five hundred pages of standard newsprinty-type paperback paper, and takes up an inch and a quarter.

If it were tissue or rice paper, I don't have any trouble believing they could get it half that thickness, or even thinner. You just need to find paper with a thickness of .002 inches.

-Hyp.

 

[Lela]

Of course. It is a destroyed magic item. No need to get complicated about it. Makes Disjunction a good spell to toss at annoying archmagi!

Who ever thought Disjunction wasn't?

Or do you mean from the DM's perspective?

 

[mr_outsidevoice]

simple mean and direct

Book is empty. all spells lost

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

So you feel 1000 pages can nonmagicly fit in that one inch thick book?

If it's made of that super thin bible/dictionary paper, certainly.