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Spellbook Management

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Ulmaxes

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Hi! I have a request for feature support.

Forewarning: If it sounds like I'm being haughty, my apologies, I freaking love this program to no end, I'm just being blunt.

Adding spells to the spellbook is alright at the moment. Building a low level character, then running through with him over time, it's a wonderful system.

However, building wizards/witches/alchemists from mid to high level can be a nightmare on multiple levels. Adding spells is simple enough, but keeping up with their cost is completely up to the user.
Adding all the spells you want can cost some serious dough, so it's not like you can just dismiss it as miscellaneous spending.
Keeping up with each spells' individual market value (as scrolls) makes for a long evening of jumping back and forth from Excel to d20pfsrd/Books/PDFs.
And that doesn't even take into account how you don't get to auto-add these spells, you roll for each one! And even then, you're still cheating a little by just using your "current' modifiers- you didn't go without hardly any spells then suddenly buy a ton of them!

What a headache!

It's a surprisingly complicated process, but that's what can make programs like these so wonderful- taking the more time-consuming parts of the process and using technology to streamline it.

The process would (in its most basic form) need to function as a store for spells; every spell has a base price, scroll wise, and cost to add to the spellbook. You add spells to your "cart" (usual add-item pop up would function fine for this), then "purchase" them. Their total value is subtracted from your wealth, and the items are added to your spellbook.
This basic version wouldn't account for Writing success/failure, but it'd be a step. Honestly I'd be fine ignoring it if the above process was in place.


So that's my thought. As I said, I know it's even harder to program in a new feature like this than it sounds. I am fluent enough in programming to know I don't know anything. The Editor still makes my head hurt.
Thanks, Lone Wolf! You guys rock!

Also, in the mean time, other users, how do YOU keep up with things? Maybe someone out there has a better system/toolkit for powering through the process.
 
I know exactly what you mean, but the downside to this is that only wizards, alchemists and witches need spellbooks.

As this is not a large part of the game and I doubt it would get alot of attention unless someone in the community can help.

They helped with building a new spellbook that tells you how many pages it requires, and how many extra books to fit all the spells in it.

So hope for the community, they are quite awesome
 
Yea implementing some type of system that would add the cost of each spell to a Wizards/Spellcasters spellbook would be great to have. In this way we as a player/GM could better track these things without the tediousness of trying to figure out the cost and time when we could just open Hero Lab and find out through the description of the spell. The same could be said about Magic Items too... telling us the caster level involved for each item would be a good thing :)
 
Would we want it to track just the base cost of scribing the spell, or should it also track the cost of 'renting' someone else's spellbook or buying a scroll as well?
 
ChrisRevocateur said:
Would we want it to track just the base cost of scribing the spell, or should it also track the cost of 'renting' someone else's spellbook or buying a scroll as well?
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Just the cost of buying the actual spell. Buying the scroll is already covered in the magic item list. Renting is not a purchase and in my opinion that is more a house rule then anything else. :)
 
Nikmal said:
Yea implementing some type of system that would add the cost of each spell to a Wizards/Spellcasters spellbook would be great to have. In this way we as a player/GM could better track these things without the tediousness of trying to figure out the cost and time when we could just open Hero Lab and find out through the description of the spell. The same could be said about Magic Items too... telling us the caster level involved for each item would be a good thing :)
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Isn't item CL is already included in HL? I see it shown in the purchase list, did you want it to be in the description somewhere?
 
How would we distinguish between the 2 spells per level you get to scribe for free, as opposed to ones you must pay for?
 
This won't solve all your issues but I did create an addon that is a spellbook you add to your character that then calculates the total number of pages and cost. It can if you want even correctly set the weight of the books based on the number of pages.

You can download it from d20pfsrd PFRPG_ShadowChemosh_Spellbook.user.

After installing the .user file start HL and go to the "Gear" tab. You will find new "Spellbooks" you can add to your character. The notes on each spellbook should explain what they do and how they work.
 
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