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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 8338086" data-attributes="member: 42856">Some thoughts about potential arguments around this idea (which I like).1. No sane wizard would allow one to get away with his spellbook. That's... true. But creating a backup spellbook takes 1 hour and 10 gp per spell level. Settings where there is a wizard academy would have curricular spellbook, sorted by school, made from the faculty's spellbook (up until a level that is fine for you to have "restricted", I feel the Eberron divide of 1-3 = common magic, 4-6 = strong magic, but you could find it in a world-class academy, 7+ = restricted reading at best, unavailable at worst) is fine. So the alumni would simply come to the school and work from a student copy. The investment would be worthwhile for the academy, either because it's only 5,090 gp to make a copy. If you consider the School Savant feature to apply, they can have the books readied for half as much gold. The benefit for the studients are invaluable and the first one to do that would recruit the best of them... until at some points everyone does this and a nominal fee will be created. You can't commission spells to be copied, since copying involves understanding, experimenting, and converting in your own arcane notation the works of another wizard, so the 50 gp cost wouldn't be lowered, but charging 10% gp on top of that sounds perfectly accceptable.2. When exactly are those adventuring wizards doing magical research?If one wanted to explain away why nobody thought about it before -- because if no school does it, a player wizard should be the first to do it and open his own school as part of a get-rich-quick scheme -- one could say that the "research" leading to two new spells every level already reflects the ability to exchange information with life-long training manager at their alma mater. Wizards don't do "downtime research" and I don't see every wizard reinventing fireball independently when reaching level 5. Instead, they subscribe to Teach Enchantment by Dreaming service (also known as TED talks) where the basics of the spells are explained so they just need a few hours of work to copy it once they have digested the learning.</blockquote>

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