Cost of a Spellbook

[hangarflying]

Is there a way to quickly determine the cost of a spellbook? If not, how difficult would it be to add a note, perhaps on the "Wizard" tab, along the left side (near the Caster Level, Concentration, etc notes)?

[Aaron]

There's not a way to do this at present. The first thing that comes to mind for difficulty is differentiating between spells that you get for free (from level advancement or to start) and those you scribe in yourself. Unless you're looking to just calculate the cost of them all irregardless of what you paid.

[hangarflying]

I'm looking at it from the perspective of selling captured spellbooks. So I guess with that in mind, it would be the total cost of the spellbook, including the value of the "free" spells.

[thedarkelf007]

You also have the issue of not associating spells with spellbooks in the first place.

It is very easy from 10th level to have more spells that fit into a conventional spellbook.

So the ability to tie spells to spellbooks would be great

[Sendric]

Originally Posted by thedarkelf007

So the ability to tie spells to spellbooks would be great

I second that!

[ChrisRevocateur]

+1000 to this entire thread.

[Aaron]

You can already add Custom Gear and set it's name, weight and price. Could you not use this to track your spellbooks?

Implementing this as well as I suspect you guys would like would involve making each added spellbook gear thing an entity which could independantly choose the spells in it, then you'd either have to re-add the same spells to your book on each class with a spellbook, or we'd have to figure out some way to transmit spells from the gear versions to the class versions (which I am not even sure is possible).

Bottom line is, to do this well would require a lot of complex work, for relatively little functionality gain.

[Sendric]

I think the idea is to be able to track how many pages are being used in the spellbook (and by extension, how many are left). At least, that's how I took it. It might not be that hard. I'll look into this tomorrow (though if someone feels like beating me to it, feel free).

[Aaron]

If all you guys wanted was to get the # of pages needed, that wouldn't be too hard to do.

[ShadowChemosh]

Originally Posted by Aaron

If all you guys wanted was to get the # of pages needed, that wouldn't be too hard to do.

Yea pretty easy actually. Here is something I just put together in about 30 minutes. Its a Spellbook gear item that when you select Wizard or Magus it calcs the total cost of the spells and the number of pages required.

Its a good start I think to get the needed info and have it auto calculate for a player or DM with a NPC.

Attached to this post is the .user file. Just add it to your HeroLab\Data\Pathfinder folder and start HL. Then on the "Gear" tab add "Spellbook" and select the class you wish to calc.
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