Who do we PM for creating a sub-forum? For future reference, I know it isn't Aftercresant
TheChris(waits/watches/something).
After I started really looking at the costs of my spellbook, I realized... that adding spells to it is really fkn expensive. So then I started looking at ways to cheese that. I started a thread on it
here, which I may turn into a handbook eventually, if I think it's worth it.
So far, it basically boils down to this:
1) Take Collegiate Wizard and then retrain it before the game starts. This will double my number of free spells every level.
2) Take Mercantile Background and buy all of my expensive magic items with it (this frees up more money to spend on spells).
I'll also then retrain this before the game starts.3) Craft all of his mundane gear himself.
4) Instead of buying scrolls for spells above 2nd level, I'll pay another mage to let me copy them. This only costs 50 gp per spell level, per the rules
here.
5) I'll craft myself an Aureon's Spellshard, which is exactly like a Boccob's Blessed Book mechanically, but only costs half as much and holds half as many spell pages. This is from the Eberron Campaign Setting book.
6) Another thing I was going to ask was if I could trade spells that I know for an equal number/level of spells with another wizard? This isn't covered in any book explicitly, but it makes sense since it would benefit both wizards in question. If you allow that, it would effectively double the number of spells I get for free, and cut the cost in half of the others (because I could also trade them with someone).Any problem with any of this stuff, Amechra? It's still going to cost an arm and a leg, but this all together cuts the costs dramatically.
Mercantile Background is technically a FR regional feat, but I could instead take Leadership and have my cohort take it. So it amounts to the same thing, if the feat is allowed. I'm not really interested in taking Leadership, though, but I might actually consider keeping Mercantile Background instead of retraining it, because it's pretty nice to have even after the game starts, I'm thinking.
Edit: OK... thanks to KellKheraptis pointing out the Catalogues of Enlightenment, I can now basically add any spell on any domain list ever to my spellbook for 250 gp and 10 XP, and one feat (Planar Touchstone) (not counting scribing costs, which I'm covering with the spellshard). So I think this problem is solved, and much more easily than I'd imagined.
Edit2: Had to rearrange a few things. See below.
