Do you need to pay for your own spells?

[Senko]

I think the answer is yes but hoping its no and I'm missing something. Lets say a wizard builds up a number of spells and then gets ahold of a blessed book do you need to pay the cost to scribe your spells into it or is writing them in free as you've already paid the spell cost to scribe them into your normal book?

[willuwontu]

A Blessed book is free to scribe into.

If the wizard was copying the spells into a normal spellbook, they'd have to pay the costs for it.

[Melkiador]

Yeah. Blessed book is pretty amazing. I try to get 2 of them on my spellbook users.

Quote:

Duplicating an existing spellbook uses the same procedure as replacing it, but the task is much easier. The time requirement and cost per spell are halved.

So if it wasn’t into a blessed book, you’d still pay less. And either way, it takes less time.

[Azothath]

Senko wrote:

I think the answer is yes but hoping its no and I'm missing something. Lets say a wizard builds up a number of spells and then gets ahold of a blessed book do you need to pay the cost to scribe your spells into it or is writing them in free as you've already paid the spell cost to scribe them into your normal book?

it is in the Blessed Book description.

Once the spells have been scribed once, then rescribing them is "copying" and half the cost. Each scribing(description) is individual to the Wizard. So copying/scribing into a Blessed Book only takes time and a check to learn the spell if it is not known. The magic item covers the material costs.
In a practical manner it is not a bad idea to retain a physical copy of a caster's spells. It is more cost efficient to learn a spell and scribe it into a Blessed Book then make a copy.

On the title - a wizard must pay for his spells gaining only two spells a level for free. I follow the original description and allow those two spells to be scribed into his book for free. NPC access is half the scribe cost (as in the CRB)(and a Blessed Book does not cover that cost).

[Senko]

Bad example then I just used it as that's when most wizard swap books. So normal ones aren't as bad as I thought costing only half the usual amount.

[OmniMage]

Back in DND 3.5, adding a spell to a spell book costed 100 gp per page. Each spell level took up 1 page. A blessed book was a major discount over the normal method since the price was reduced to 12.5 gp per page (a number determined by dividing the price of the book by the number of pages). In Pathfinder, its only more cost effective if you are copying a 2nd level spell or higher, as the prices for copying spells is much lower.

I thought it would be useful to know it was a cost saving item back in the original rules. So if you wanted to make it true for all spells in Pathfinder, you might want to reduce the cost of the book to 10k (for copying level 1 spells at cost) or even 5k (for copying cantrips at cost).

If you wanted to go back even further to DND 3.0, then spells took up 2 pages per spell level (cantrips took up only 1), each page costed 100 gp, and the blessed book could accept 45 spells of any level and costed 9500 gp.