So last session my character died and so i had to bring in my backup charaecter gilmore. So gilmore is an arcanist and ive taken the scribe scroll feat. How much would it cost to scribe scrolls of each level amd how much could i sell the scrolls for?
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It costs half the purchase price to scribe a scroll. A scroll sells for half its purchase price. There's not really any profit to be made.
More info can be found here but the basics are that the price of a scroll is equal to the level of the spell × the creator’s caster level × 25 gp, so for a Wizard the purchase price are the values listed below, and the crafting and sell values are half that.
0 12.5 gp
1st 25 gp
2nd 150 gp
3rd 375 gp
4th 700 gp
5th 1,125 gp
6th 1,650 gp
7th 2,275 gp
8th 3,000 gp
9th 3,825 gp
Considering that the game wants you to go on adventures, it makes sense that "sitting in your workshop crafting things to sell" is not even remotely lucrative.
It costs half the purchase price to scribe a scroll. A scroll sells for half its purchase price. There's not really any profit to be made.
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To understand why this is, this would be the RL equivalent of buying yarn from the store, knitting a blanket and then selling that blanket at a pawn shop. Sure you can do it, but at best you'll only break even and after awhile pawn shops are going to stop buying your blankets since they still have the last couple you sold them.
The rules, do allow you to make money crafting, but they don't use the normal crafting rules. The downtime rules let you make a profession or spellcraft check and you earn money based on that check. You can improve that check by actually building your own store and running it via the building rules. Even then, they basically assume that your 500gp scroll sits in the window for weeks before someone comes along and buys it.
The cost to craft a scroll is half its market value. The price you can sell scrolls at is half its market value. Crafting magic items in this game doesn't yield much money.
The market value for scrolls is (spell level * caster level * 25 gp).
Please read the magic items chapter. The questions you are asking makes it feel like you didn't bother to read it.
Read p. 490 & p. 552 i was using google and couldnt find it
The cost to craft a scroll is half its market value. The price you can sell scrolls at is half its market value. Crafting magic items in this game doesn't yield much money.
The market value for scrolls is (spell level * caster level * 25 gp).
Please read the magic items chapter. The questions you are asking makes it feel like you didn't bother to read it.
Read p. 490 & p. 552 i was using google and couldnt find it
you can find that information here
I got what i needed thanks
The crafting cost of a scroll is 25 * SpellLevel * CasterLevel + MaterialComponents.
The price of a scroll is 50 * SpellLevel * CasterLevel + MaterialComponents.
Selling a scroll gets 1/2 (50 * SpellLevel * CasterLevel + MaterialComponents).
Therefore, if you sell a scroll you crafted with costly material components will loose monet.
That said, there are a few traits that allow you to save 5% on crafting. This lets you spend 95 gp to craft a scroll you sell for 100 gaining 5 gp profit.
/cevah
If you are using the downtime rules, you could use generated magic capital to pay for the crafting cost. It’d take longer and still not be very productive, but you could make a pretty good nonadventuring living.
The crafting cost of a scroll is 25 * SpellLevel * CasterLevel + MaterialComponents.
The price of a scroll is 50 * SpellLevel * CasterLevel + MaterialComponents.
Selling a scroll gets 1/2 (50 * SpellLevel * CasterLevel + MaterialComponents).Therefore, if you sell a scroll you crafted with costly material components will loose monet.
That said, there are a few traits that allow you to save 5% on crafting. This lets you spend 95 gp to craft a scroll you sell for 100 gaining 5 gp profit.
/cevah
Take the leadership feat and open up a Scribe Scroll sweatshop to maximize profits :D :D :D