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Reading through the threads I can't seem to find a strait answer on this.

According to page 219 you can sell a spellbook for half the cost of the spell and inscribing it. Is the cost of the spell the scroll cost (as the inscribing costs are clearly listed) or is it just the inscribing cost.

For example:

Would a spell book with:

4 level 3 spells
4 level 2 spells
8 level 1 spells
18 cantrips

Sell for:

Half inscribing costs only or:
360 (3rd levels) + 160 (2nd levels) + 80 (1st levels) + 90 (cantrips)
=
690 / 2 - meaning a 345 gold sell price.

OR

is it

inscribe cost + scroll/spell cost therefore:
1860 (3rd level) + 760 (2nd levels) + 280 (1st level) + 315 (cantrips)
=
3215 / 2 - meaning a 1607.5 gold sell price.

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I just can't honestly figure out the way spellbook price should be determined. In the past I've just set arbitrary costs to spellbooks, but this time we have a wizard so they need to know spells as well as the costs to sell spellbooks.

Thanks for any help.

I think I misread the note in VV, I thought they should be that range prior to the annexing of Varnhold.

Thank you for the information, I just didn't want them to be so large that it made conflicts trivial in the next couple parts. I think I'll take a suggestion earlier in this thread and have some other city attacked.

They were talking about building more settlements.. I'll wait until one of these is built up, but still a bit poorly defended, and have it take the blunt of the attack.

I'll probably need to really look at the fifth AP also, for the mass combat rules. My PCs have been very expansionist and also good at fortifying. Their long term goal is unification of the entire River Kingdoms, so they've tried not to leave to many holes in their defense.