So I'm looking at creating a Wizard of moderate level, and I'd like to make sure that I accurately represent the number and nature of his spellbooks. Is anyone aware of any kind of spellbook creation utility or application that will provide a page count based on the spells I identify as known by my character?
I know that several options exist to generate spell cards and simple lists of spells known, but none of them that I've found appear to offer the (very simple) functionality of displaying the number of pages in a spellbook that would be necessary to contain whatever spells are selected.
I would greatly appreciate any assistance that could be offered, as I would like to avoid the need to develop my own (kludgey) solution using a spreadsheet or something similar, in favor of something that would hopefully provide more than just a page count (such as spell names/descriptions).
A spell takes a number of pages equal to it's spell lv, 0 lv spells take half a page I believe. So all you really need to do is some basic multiplication (# of spells known per spell lv x spell lv) and addition to figure out how many pages your spells would take.
For example, say you know 5 spells each for spell lvs 0-5 that would be
5 x 0.5 = 2.5
5 x 1 = 5
5 x 2 = 10
5 x 3 = 15
5 x 4 = 20
5 x 5 = 25
2.5 + 5 + 10 + 15 + 20 + 25 = 77.5 pages used
A spell takes a number of pages equal to it's spell lv, 0 lv spells take half a page I believe. So all you really need to do is some basic multiplication (# of spells known per spell lv x spell lv) and addition to figure out how many pages your spells would take.
Yes, I know this. In fact, cantrips are explicitly called out as taking up one page, but it remains a simple calculation.
I find it tedious, however, to undertake this calculation multiple times and to track the changing page count in the process of developing a character, especially if the character's spell list varies in composition over the process of creation. Knowing something about programming, this feature is something that should be almost trivially easy to implement in any computing application where spell levels are identified in relation to spells. As I have no access to the source code for the various tools that I have been able to find, I have no ability to make this modification on my own, and therefore asked if anyone else was aware of an application that would automate this simple but tedious calculation for me.
I'm not an idiot, I just see no good reason that I should take time to do manually what a fairly complex program could easily do automatically in effectively zero extra time. (Yes, I regard the absence of this functionality as a bad reason to waste time summing the products.) I'm sorry if that was not clear from my initial post.
The other reason I'm interested in this question (aside from the triviality of implementation) is that most spellbooks hold 50 or 100 spells (traveling and standard books) and have associated costs. If my Wizard is going to start play at 8th level, I need to know if the free spells and the spells I pay to copy from other books will require me to purchase one or more extra spellbooks, and if so how many, so that I can properly account for my expenditures based on WBL.
PCGen automatically takes care of page count with it's spellbooks. It'll even let you know when you're out of room.
Thanks very much! I confess, I don't use PCGen, and therefore did not think of it as a potential solution.
Do you happen to know if it also addresses the Words of Power option from Ultimate Magic in a similar fashion?