re: wizard adding spells to spell book


Rules Questions

Silver Crusade

I apologize if this has been asked before.

My wizard has a blessed book. What now are my costs for adding spells to my spell book?

Thank you


Access to the spells, so level*level*5.

Grand Lodge

Or if you find them in an adventure or from a fellow wizard, free!

Silver Crusade

The Blessed Book takes away any scribing cost. So, if you are getting a spell from an NPC wizard, you only have to pay the cost to access the NPC's book. This information is in the Magic Chapter of the CRB, in the Arcane Magical Writings Section:

Adding Spells to a Wizard's Spellbook:

Wizards can add new spells to their spellbooks through several methods. A wizard can only learn new spells that belong to the wizard spell lists.

Spells Gained at a New Level: Wizards perform a certain amount of spell research between adventures. Each time a character attains a new wizard level, he gains two spells of his choice to add to his spellbook. The two free spells must be of spell levels he can cast.

Spells Copied from Another's Spellbook or a Scroll: A wizard can also add a spell to his book whenever he encounters one on a magic scroll or in another wizard's spellbook. No matter what the spell's source, the wizard must first decipher the magical writing (see Arcane Magical Writings). Next, he must spend 1 hour studying the spell. At the end of the hour, he must make a Spellcraft check (DC 15 + spell's level). A wizard who has specialized in a school of spells gains a +2 bonus on the Spellcraft check if the new spell is from his specialty school. If the check succeeds, the wizard understands the spell and can copy it into his spellbook (see Writing a New Spell into a Spellbook). The process leaves a spellbook that was copied from unharmed, but a spell successfully copied from a magic scroll disappears from the parchment.

If the check fails, the wizard cannot understand or copy the spell. He cannot attempt to learn or copy that spell again until one week has passed. If the spell was from a scroll, a failed Spellcraft check does not cause the spell to vanish.

In most cases, wizards charge a fee for the privilege of copying spells from their spellbooks. This fee is usually equal to half the cost to write the spell into a spellbook (see Writing a New Spell into a Spellbook). Rare and unique spells might cost significantly more.

Independent Research: A wizard can also research a spell independently, duplicating an existing spell or creating an entirely new one. The cost to research a new spell, and the time required, are left up to GM discretion, but it should probably take at least 1 week and cost at least 1,000 gp per level of the spell to be researched. This should also require a number of Spellcraft and Knowledge (arcana) checks.

The cost to write a spell is normally spell level*spell level*10. Half of that is the access cost, which is the figure that Mike provided above.

As FLite stated, if you are adventuring with another wizard and agree to share access with one another, that fee need not be required, and so the access cost can be free. Same with finding a spellbook in a scenario. And since the scribing cost is free with the Blessed Book, there can be no cost at all.

Silver Crusade

Thank you

The Exchange

Remember the page limit...1,000 pages runs out faster than you think!

And did you sell your old book? What price did you fogure it at?

one page per spell level, zeros are one page also and mine is at about 300 pages now...

Grand Lodge

A blessed spell book works out to be 12.5 gp per page.

spells cost 10 gold per level per page.

You should not be scribing level 1 spells or cantrips in a blessed book.

For that matter, since you probably won't buy more than one, you should probably not scribe too many level 2 spells, you should save it for 3 and 4 where it really pays off.

Shadow Lodge

Tweedle-Dum wrote:

Remember the page limit...1,000 pages runs out faster than you think!

And did you sell your old book? What price did you fogure it at?

one page per spell level, zeros are one page also and mine is at about 300 pages now...

My 12th lvl Magus who has a blessed book with ALL magus spells in it, is just over half full with 518 pages filled. Of course a wizard has access to a lot more spells and spell levels, but still.

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