Where are the spellbook creation rules?

[Cabral]

There was some book, I thought it was Tome & Blood, that had spiffy rules for custom spell books, including special materials. Does anyone remember what product this was?

Also, anyone know of any rules for how many spells a wizard starting at 8th level should have in her spell book?

 

[Nyarlathotep]

Complete Arcane has some rules for custom material spellbooks and grimoires.

As for the 8th lvl caster, I usually do the following:

1st lvl caster: All 0-lvl, 2 + Int Mod 1st-lvl (I think this is right, don't have books handy).
2nd lvl caster: +2 1st lvl spells
3rd lvl caster: +2 2nd (or 1st) lvl spells
4th lvl caster: +2 2nd (or 1st) lvl spells
5th lvl caster: +2 3rd (or 1st/2nd) lvl spells
6th lvl caster: +2 3rd (or 1st/2nd) lvl spells
7th lvl caster: +2 4th (or 1st/2nd/3rd) lvl spells
8th lvl caster: +2 4th (or 1st/2nd/3rd) lvl spells

Additional spells can be purchased at creation from the PCs wealth (costs are scribing costs and either the cost for a scroll of the appropriate spell, or whatever an NPC would charge to copy spells from their book).

 

[Cabral]

I don't have Complete Arcane, but there was another book before it that had the same or similar information, a 3.0 edition book. That's the one i'm trying to find

 

[Cabral]

Aha. managed to find it at last. Magic of Faerun, pg 172. Now I just need to check out your spells suggestion and I'll be set

 

[Cabral]

Spells per level

While it would be nifty if there was a random spell book generation system, after take a look at the rules, I found a little entry in Adding spells to a spell book that should be in the equipment list under Services.

PHB p178:
A wizard will generally allow a character to copy a spell from their spell book for spell 50gp per spell level. This is in addition to the cost of scribing the spell (100 gp per page; 1 page per spell level, minimum of 1).

So, basicly a wizard can buy spells with their funds for:
0th*: 125 gp
1st: 150 gp
2nd: 300 gp
3rd: 450 gp
4th: 600 gp
5th: 750 gp
6th: 900 gp
7th: 1,050 gp
8th: 1,200 gp
9th: 1,350 gp

*assuming something wasn't included in "All 0th level spells" ... which I'll probably replace with 9-12 0th level spells.