Versatile Spontinaity and Buying spellbooks

[BigNorseWolf]

The Pathfinder society primer has a feat to let sorcerers cast spells from a spellbook or a scroll at a penalty. The feat is only really useful if the character has a spellbook though: it burns a scroll if you use a scroll to do it.

Is there any PFS legal way to buy a spellbook?

[Mistwalker]

If your spellcraft is high enough, why couldn't you just buy a blank spell book (UE), and then use spellcarft to write spells into the book?

[BigNorseWolf]

Mistwalker wrote:

If your spellcraft is high enough, why couldn't you just buy a blank spell book (UE), and then use spellcarft to write spells into the book?

Because its wizards can add spells to a spellbook, not any other characters.

[Kyrie Ebonblade]

BigNorseWolf wrote:

Mistwalker wrote:

If your spellcraft is high enough, why couldn't you just buy a blank spell book (UE), and then use spellcarft to write spells into the book?

Because its wizards can add spells to a spellbook, not any other characters.

Magi and Arcanists too.

I figure that you could do it if you're willing to pay the scribing costs.

[Mistwalker]

That is the problem with playing the game for so long, you assume things when they may have been changed or not been that way at all (houserules).

I have always assumed that if you can read magic, cast scrolls of that type of magic (arcane or divine), then you could copy spells into a spellbook, even if you normally couldn't cast those spells.

I am having trouble seeing how this could be abused, as you still have to pay inscription costs to write the spells in your book, and usually pay an access fee as well.

You could have the same effect if you buy a spellbook and ask a PC wizard to write the spells into your book for you (with you paying the inscription costs) - I suspect that most wizards would be agreeable, especially if there were spells in your book that they didn't have.