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<blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 68446" data-attributes="member: 707">For a while I didn't understand the scribing cost imposed on a wizard.&nbsp; After all, no other class has to pay for his class abilities.&nbsp; However, I eventually concluded that scribing costs do serve as a very important balance to the wizard class:Item Creation.A wizard who crafts items gets them for half price.&nbsp; By forcing the wizard to pay crazy amounts of money to scribe his spells, it (at least from low to mid-levels,) counters the savings from item creation, making sure that the wizard doesn't have way more money than any other class.&nbsp; Without scribing costs and time, a wizard could very well end up with twice as many magic items as any other class, since he can craft his own for half price.However, that said a wizard who doesn't craft items is taking a hit in the pocketbook that isn't, IMO, warranted.&nbsp; The cost is there to balance the savings in crafting items, not because of power issues, so a wizard who doesn't make use of that savings potential winds up with a penalty and nothing to balance it.As an example of this idea in action:&nbsp; I play a fighter/mage currently, and the DM has eliminated scribing costs altogether.&nbsp; My PC doesn't have any item creation feats save Scribe Scroll and Craft Wand, so he has to pay full price for, say, a Headband of Intellect +2, etc.&nbsp; Plus he still has to buy the scrolls of spells he wants to scribe, which are themselves pretty expensive.&nbsp; The result?&nbsp; His spellbook isn't very impressive at all, but it does have enough spells in it to be fun to use! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lord Pendragon, post: 68446, member: 707"] For a while I didn't understand the scribing cost imposed on a wizard. After all, no other class has to pay for his class abilities. However, I eventually concluded that scribing costs do serve as a very important balance to the wizard class: Item Creation. A wizard who crafts items gets them for half price. By forcing the wizard to pay crazy amounts of money to scribe his spells, it (at least from low to mid-levels,) counters the savings from item creation, making sure that the wizard doesn't have way more money than any other class. Without scribing costs and time, a wizard could very well end up with twice as many magic items as any other class, since he can craft his own for half price. However, that said a wizard who doesn't craft items is taking a hit in the pocketbook that isn't, IMO, warranted. The cost is there to balance the savings in crafting items, not because of power issues, so a wizard who doesn't make use of that savings potential winds up with a penalty and nothing to balance it. As an example of this idea in action: I play a fighter/mage currently, and the DM has eliminated scribing costs altogether. My PC doesn't have any item creation feats save Scribe Scroll and Craft Wand, so he has to pay full price for, say, a [i]Headband of Intellect +2[/i], etc. Plus he still has to buy the scrolls of spells he wants to scribe, which are themselves pretty expensive. The result? His spellbook isn't very impressive at all, but it does have enough spells in it to be fun to use! :D [/QUOTE]

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