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Ok, a spellbook with all 0 level CORE spells and 7 1st level spells in it.
I came up with 312.5 gp.
My math: 0 level spells cost 8.75gp each to purchase and scribe into the book.
1st level spells cost 17.5gp each to purchase and scribe into the book.
The blank book is 15gp itself.
So 20 0-level x 8.75=175gp
7 1st-level x 7 = 122.5gp
and 15 for the book.....
Am I correct on this? Usually someone else handles this in our group but I am stepping into the treasure tracking duty and want to get it right.
Hey, Fakey! Good to see you.
I found this in the PRD about 3/4 of the way down the page. It's the cost to write spells into a wizard's book.
Spell Level Writing Cost
0 5 gp
1 10 gp
2 40 gp
3 90 gp
4 160 gp
5 250 gp
6 360 gp
7 490 gp
8 640 gp
9 810 gp
I'm not sure about resale price at all.
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Spells Copied from Another's Spellbook or a Scroll:... 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)...
Selling a Spellbook
Captured spellbooks can be sold for an amount equal to half the cost of purchasing and inscribing the spells within.
According to the text above, the "market price" for spells in a spellbook is 1.5 x cost to write the spell and the "sale price" is half that:
0: 7.5 gp -> 3.75 gp
1st: 15 gp -> 7.5 gp
2nd: 60 gp -> 30 gp
3rd: 135 gp -> 67.5 gp
4th: 240 gp -> 120 gp
5th: 325 gp -> 162.5 gp
6th: 540 gp -> 270 gp
7th: 735 gp -> 367.5 gp
8th: 960 gp -> 480 gp
9th: 1215 gp -> 607.5 gp
A spellbook with 20 0-level spells and 7 1st-level spells would sell for: 7.5 gp (spell book) + (20 x 3.75) + (7 x 7.5) = 7.5 + 75 + 52.5 = 135 gp.
Thanks, Dragonchess Player!
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Spells Copied from Another's Spellbook or a Scroll:... 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)...
Selling a Spellbook
Captured spellbooks can be sold for an amount equal to half the cost of purchasing and inscribing the spells within.According to the text above, the "market price" for spells in a spellbook is 1.5 x cost to write the spell and the "sale price" is half that:
0: 7.5 gp -> 3.75 gp
1st: 15 gp -> 7.5 gp
2nd: 60 gp -> 30 gp
3rd: 135 gp -> 67.5 gp
4th: 240 gp -> 120 gp
5th: 325 gp -> 162.5 gp
6th: 540 gp -> 270 gp
7th: 735 gp -> 367.5 gp
8th: 960 gp -> 480 gp
9th: 1215 gp -> 607.5 gpA spellbook with 20 0-level spells and 7 1st-level spells would sell for: 7.5 gp (spell book) + (20 x 3.75) + (7 x 7.5) = 7.5 + 75 + 52.5 = 135 gp.
That doesn't figure in any cost to purchase the spells. A scroll of a 0 level spell is 12.5gp, and higher level scrolls are more. So wouldn't the "captured spellbooks can be sold for half the cost of purchasing and inscribing the spells within" include the cost of purchasing the spells and not just the cost of writing it in?
Not at all Fake Healer, first because you can simply pay someone to let you look at their book (which costs half the fee of scribing, as per the same section that list of prices is in).
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Not at all Fake Healer, first because you can simply pay someone to let you look at their book (which costs half the fee of scribing, as per the same section that list of prices is in).
Even then you are paying to use their book and you still to write them in yours so a 0 level would cost 3.75(using someone's spellbook) + 3.75(half the cost to write it into yours)= 7.5gp ....
right?EDIT- and most casters in my group usually buy scrolls to scribe into their books, which cost a bit more but you can get whatever you are looking for instead of whatever Merlin thought was important to him.
Dragonchess Player's chart already did the math for you, Fake Healer. Including the cost for acquisition of a spell (that being, half the cost of scribing it).
A 0-level spell costs 5gp to scribe into your book (per therealthom's chart), plus 2.5gp "copy fee" for using another wizard's book. That comes to 7.5gp total. If you were to sell the book later, the spell would be worth half that (or 3.75gp).
Also, I don't see why scrolls would be any easier to come across than scrolls. If your GM decides every scroll you want is available at a location, he could just as easily decide there are spellbooks to copy them out of. After all, those scrolls have to come from somewhere, right?