[3.5] A spell a day keeps the costs away

[Jack_Simth]

Hey all,

I was browsing the magic item compendium, and noted a gem for Wizards: The Tome of Ancient Lore. The notable part here is that if you meet the requirements, you can prepare a spell you don't know.

Combined with a gem in adding spells to a spellbook (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicOverview/arcaneSpells.htm#addingSpellstoaWizardsSpellbook):
A wizard can use the procedure for learning a spell to reconstruct a lost spellbook. If she already has a particular spell prepared, she can write it directly into a new book at a cost of 100 gp per page (as noted in Writing a New Spell into a Spellbook, above). The process wipes the prepared spell from her mind, just as casting it would. If she does not have the spell prepared, she can prepare it from a borrowed spellbook and then write it into a new book.
and standard Blessed Books (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicItems/wondrousItems.htm#blessedBook), does this actually mean a Wizard can pretty much learn every Wizard spell ever for dirt cheap (a feat, 5,500 gp for the item - Craftable for 2,750 gp and 220 xp - and however many 12.5k Blessed Books for the spells you'll fill into it) at a rate of 1 per day (1 per 2 days, average, for your highest level spells)?

[Slide]

Looks like it'll work, as long as you can find one of those Tomes. Since they're relics, the following applies:

"These items are rarer than other magic items; usually no more than a half-dozen copies of each relic exist."

Unlike most items where you can be reasonably sure of getting one merely by planeshifting to Union, this one might be a bit harder to find.

[Jack_Simth]

Looks like it'll work, as long as you can find one of those Tomes. Since they're relics, the following applies:

"These items are rarer than other magic items; usually no more than a half-dozen copies of each relic exist."

Unlike most items where you can be reasonably sure of getting one merely by planeshifting to Union, this one might be a bit harder to find.

Note, however, that it also happens to be craftable.

[Slipperychicken]

So the idea is to dodge the copy cost? I like it. The tome does mean that it would take you at least 2 and a half years to fill a Blessed Book with new spells though. You could craft more tomes to fill your spellbook faster (since each one has a 50% failure chance for a highest-level spell).

Now just tack on a level of Geometer so each spell is just one page, lowering the scribing cost to just 12.5gp per spell (as opposed to 12.5*spell level), plus the Tome of Ancient Lore's cost as overhead.