Cost to learning all wizard spells in Pathfinder

[dascarletm]

Hello everybody!

I was wondering if someone has calculated the cost to learning/scribing every spell on the pfsrd for each spell level.

This is assuming you start with 20 int and don't get any extra spells known besides the starting allotment and your 2/level.

I could go calculate it out, but if someone has done the work it would be nice to just use that.

Thanks!

[Psyren]

Assuming starting spell book and all remaining spellbooks being Blessed Books (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/wondrous-items/wondrous-items/a-b/book-blessed) (i.e. more pages each and no scribing costs) it would roughly be:

(Storage Costs) + (Scroll Costs) + (Scribing Costs)

Which becomes:

(Cost of all Blessed Books minus Starting Book) + (Cost of all 9th-level scrolls minus free 9th-level spells from leveling) + (Cost of all 8th-level scrolls minus free 8th-level spells from leveling) + (Cost of all 7th-level scrolls minus free 97h-level spells from leveling)...(Cost of all 1st-level scrolls minus free 1st-level spells from leveling).

- 100 is the total number of spell levels (pages in other words) that the wizard gets in their starting book. You will need BB storage space for the rest - the number of BBs you need to store {all wizard spells -100} will be the storage costs.
- The total number of scrolls a 20 Int Wizard won't have to buy is:

28x cantrips
10x 1st-level (3 starting + 5 Int + 2 more from reaching level 2)
4x 2nd-level (levels 3 and 4)
4x 3rd-level (levels 5 and 6)
4x 4th-level (levels 7 and 8)
4x 5th-level (levels 9 and 10)
4x 6th-level (levels 11 and 12)
4x 7th-level (levels 13 and 14)
4x 8th-level (levels 15 and 16)
8x 9th-level (levels 17, 18, 19 and 20.)
= 74 scrolls of varying costs

Subtract those 74 from the remaining scrolls the wizard will have to buy and you have scroll costs.

Above assumes that your free spells are always the highest spell level available, and that you fill your starting spellbook as much as possible (including all cantrips) before turning to Blessed Books.

[Jeraa]

You can also copy spells from another wizards spellbook. Cost is half the price the spell would normally cost to scribe, so from 5 gp for a 1st level spell to 405gp for a 9th level one. That can cut the cost significantly.

Granted, that does require you to find a wizard with the spell you need, but you also aren't guaranteed to find a scroll of the spell you need either.

[marphod]

(The answer to this question is highly dependent on which sources you are using.

The functional discount from Psyren is accurate, though.)

[Jeraa]

The cost also depends on just what spells you take for free as you level up. If a spell has an expensive component, the price of that must be included in a scroll.

For example, Wish has a 25,000gp material component, added to the cost 3,825gp scroll. A wish scroll therefor costs 28,825 gp. Getting the spell from another wizard only costs 405gp. Researching it yourself costs 9000 gp. Take it as one of your free spells and it costs 0 gp.