All it says is that the sale price of a spellbook is half the cost of purchasing and inscribing the spells therein.
By purchasing do they mean in scroll form? Or by purchase do they mean the cost to copy out of another wizard's spellbook?
Inscribing costs are understandable, but what about the cost of the book itself? That's worth something right? 15 gp blank.
So, if my wizard found a spellbook with 16 cantrips, 12 first level, and 3 second level spells in it, what is the sale price?
Thx!
Joe
All it says is that the sale price of a spellbook is half the cost of purchasing and inscribing the spells therein.
By purchasing do they mean in scroll form? Or by purchase do they mean the cost to copy out of another wizard's spellbook?
Inscribing costs are understandable, but what about the cost of the book itself? That's worth something right? 15 gp blank.
So, if my wizard found a spellbook with 16 cantrips, 12 first level, and 3 second level spells in it, what is the sale price?
Thx!
Joe
For treasure prices I would say..
12 x 1003 x 200
total = 1800gp's
I wouldn't grant cantrips any value as a Wizard gets a spellbook with all these in for free at 1st level.
According to RAW, each cantrip uses 1 page, so that would add 1600 to the price, which, imo, for treasure, is too much.
All it says is that the sale price of a spellbook is half the cost of purchasing and inscribing the spells therein.
By purchasing do they mean in scroll form? Or by purchase do they mean the cost to copy out of another wizard's spellbook?
Inscribing costs are understandable, but what about the cost of the book itself? That's worth something right? 15 gp blank.
So, if my wizard found a spellbook with 16 cantrips, 12 first level, and 3 second level spells in it, what is the sale price?
Thx!
Joe
For treasure prices I would say..
12 x 100
3 x 200
total = 1800gp'sI wouldn't grant cantrips any value as a Wizard gets a spellbook with all these in for free at 1st level.
According to RAW, each cantrip uses 1 page, so that would add 1600 to the price, which, imo, for treasure, is too much.
From the PrD
Captured spellbooks can be sold for an amount equal to half the cost of purchasing and inscribing the spells within.
I am to lazy to do the math, but there is the formula
So you're determining the price at 100 and 200 gp based on what?
Joe
All it says is that the sale price of a spellbook is half the cost of purchasing and inscribing the spells therein.
By purchasing do they mean in scroll form? Or by purchase do they mean the cost to copy out of another wizard's spellbook?
Inscribing costs are understandable, but what about the cost of the book itself? That's worth something right? 15 gp blank.
So, if my wizard found a spellbook with 16 cantrips, 12 first level, and 3 second level spells in it, what is the sale price?
Thx!
Joe
For treasure prices I would say..
12 x 100
3 x 200
total = 1800gp'sI wouldn't grant cantrips any value as a Wizard gets a spellbook with all these in for free at 1st level.
According to RAW, each cantrip uses 1 page, so that would add 1600 to the price, which, imo, for treasure, is too much.
From the PrD
Captured spellbooks can be sold for an amount equal to half the cost of purchasing and inscribing the spells within.
I am to lazy to do the math, but there is the formula
I know---thats the formula I quoted in the first line of the thread. My question is---cost to purchase based on what? Scroll prices? or the price to copy a spell out of another wizard's spellbook?
So, if my wizard found a spellbook with 16 cantrips, 12 first level, and 3 second level spells in it, what is the sale price?
Thx!
Joe
Inscription costs
16*5 = 8012*10 = 120
3*40 = 120
Total 320 gp
Access to another caster's spellbook costs
16*2.5 = 40
12*5 = 60
3*20 = 60
Total 160 gp
Grand total replacement cost is 480 gp.
So, the spellbook would sell for 240 gp.
Well, you could also add in the 15 gp to the grand total and another 7.5 gp to the resale price.
So you're determining the price at 100 and 200 gp based on what?
Joe
Each page is valued at 100gp's. A 1st level spell uses 1 page, a 2nd level spell uses 2 pages, and so on.
Sell price would be half the total [900gp's]
But I'm using 3.5 costs [should have pointed that out!]
In Pathfinder the costs have been reduced somewhat...
Spell Writing Spell Writing
Level..Cost...Level..Cost
0.......5 gp......5....250 gp
1......10 gp.....6....360 gp
2......40 gp.....7....490 gp
3......90 gp.....8....640 gp
4.....160 gp....9....810 gp
Mistwalker's figures are correct.
For reference the table is in the magic section (not the spells section, the magic section) of the book.
Cool. Thx for the help guys. :)