A player wants to use mundane ink and paper to copy down the incantations and formula for their spells so that in the case they lose their book, they have more than their prepared spells they can then spend the 10 gold and time per to retranscribe into the new book with proper ink and parchment.
IE, they want to make a useless book that's more of just a notepad with their spells in it to reference later to write into a proper spell book in the case they lose theirs.
There is nothing in the rules that allow this, but I don't think it would be a problem to copy your spell book this way, though obviously the copy would simply be a mundane book. It would be readable by anyone, and unusable as a spell casting focus. The player would still have to spend the same amount of time copying the spells, though you could say the gold cost was greatly reduced (maybe 1gp per spell level instead of 10). Kind of up to the DM if this would be allowed, but I would allow it since in the end, it would actually cost the wizard more gold to replace the book if it was lost, since they would have to transcribe the cheaper copy into a full magical spellbook later.
in my opinion, if the campaign is set up so that gold is scarce, then I’d allow it. The rules of the game aren’t really set up for such a game and some players like doing that. Maintaining a backup spell book would be financially prohibitive.
It really comes down to the campaign style and the GM’s approach to economics.
I would allow it only for "academic" purposes. The spell(s) on said scroll or spell book could never be copied back to a spell book or a real spell scroll and used in anyway. it would be basically a detailed list of the spells he/she had, nothing more. Doing it any other way defeats the point of the spellbook and the cost associated with scribing spells in it. So no, I would not allow it to be used as your player wants, but using it as a list of what he/she needs to buy/acquire... yeah thats fine.
This seems like the player trying to take an end-run around the rules for copying spells/making a backup spellbook. Personally, If I was a GM, I wouldn't allow this; if they want to make a backup for their spellbook, they have to actually make a backup for their spellbook.
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A player wants to use mundane ink and paper to copy down the incantations and formula for their spells so that in the case they lose their book, they have more than their prepared spells they can then spend the 10 gold and time per to retranscribe into the new book with proper ink and parchment.
IE, they want to make a useless book that's more of just a notepad with their spells in it to reference later to write into a proper spell book in the case they lose theirs.
There is nothing in the rules that allow this, but I don't think it would be a problem to copy your spell book this way, though obviously the copy would simply be a mundane book. It would be readable by anyone, and unusable as a spell casting focus. The player would still have to spend the same amount of time copying the spells, though you could say the gold cost was greatly reduced (maybe 1gp per spell level instead of 10). Kind of up to the DM if this would be allowed, but I would allow it since in the end, it would actually cost the wizard more gold to replace the book if it was lost, since they would have to transcribe the cheaper copy into a full magical spellbook later.
Seems like a GM call.
in my opinion, if the campaign is set up so that gold is scarce, then I’d allow it. The rules of the game aren’t really set up for such a game and some players like doing that. Maintaining a backup spell book would be financially prohibitive.
It really comes down to the campaign style and the GM’s approach to economics.
I would allow it only for "academic" purposes. The spell(s) on said scroll or spell book could never be copied back to a spell book or a real spell scroll and used in anyway. it would be basically a detailed list of the spells he/she had, nothing more. Doing it any other way defeats the point of the spellbook and the cost associated with scribing spells in it. So no, I would not allow it to be used as your player wants, but using it as a list of what he/she needs to buy/acquire... yeah thats fine.
This seems like the player trying to take an end-run around the rules for copying spells/making a backup spellbook. Personally, If I was a GM, I wouldn't allow this; if they want to make a backup for their spellbook, they have to actually make a backup for their spellbook.