Magic Item for DnD 3,5: BlackSmith's SpellBook

BlackSmith's SpellBook

made by Seppä Erkki, aka BlackSmith, heureka 2003/08/06, updated 2004/07/12

After going trough numerous of spellbooks in his early stages of magic, Happy Icewind discovered the wonders of Bocco's Blessed Spellbook. At first he was thrilled about the marvelous piece of art until he found out that the book was faverite food for a certain type of ants.
He bought another set of these small wonders and in great effort replaced his numerous spellbooks. While his powers kept growing his need for multiple books also keept growing until he was constantly carrying around two to tree books and still not having all of his spells around specially when others "borrowed" his spellbooks while never returning them.
One day while he was studying his precious books, having them spread all over the ground, an ambush stroke him in form of a fireball.
After loosing all of his spells, again, he decided to give a try to make a spellbook wihtout the flaws he had encoutered this far.

The book itself is made of stone that changes its colour according to its users aligment, beeing 12" high, 6" wide and only 2" thick. Black as night for Evil, Silver as old hair or beard for neutral and Snow White for good aligment owners.
Also its surface pattern changes according to its owners aligment having a solid, reflecting face like it would be polished if the owner is Lawful, soft and warm looking but still beeing firm for Neutral owners and for Chaotic owners the face looks like storm water trapped inside the stone thus you can almost feel the chaos trashing trough.

First of all the main power of the book is to store huge amount of spells, that are sorted according to the owners desire, in to pages made of skin from the inside of a Purple Worms mouth thus others browsing trough the book have difficulties to find the right spell while the books owner finds the right spell by simply opening the book. Note that Lawful Neutral owner might like the spells in descending order of uses and the book would present them in this order thus it would be equally hard for any other than the books owner itself to find the right spell.

The Book accepts spells scribed normaly up to a total of 100 of spell levels, and the amount can be increased by a simple ritual.
Also, the Book is very durable and has multilayered traps against anyone unauthorized that tries to use the book and some nice edges for it rightful user.
The book does not shine magic while observed with Detect Magic but it is treated as a magic item when counting the number of magical auras in an area Its auras strenght is equal to the highest spell it contains thus it is impossible to Pin Point the book but it is certain that something magical is in the area.

to add a new spell, the owner has to have the spell in memory or in a scroll in his hand, then he increases the page amount needed by sacrifacing 20 experience points per page added to the book. As many pages as the owner is adding, she must also do equal amount of Hit Point damage to herself and let her blood spill on the first page. The blood soaks in to the page and the spell disappears from the memory or from the scroll. After the blood (& Experience points) is payed, the new spell appears into the book writen by blood. Any spell added this way cannot be erased from the book short of destroying the whole book but the other spells copied to it normally, can be erased.
The book itself is completely watertight, but if the pages would somehow get wet, the text would be blured but not lost thus the time for spell preaparation would be doubled. If the book is left open for one day in good weather it dries out and the pages change back to normal.
The book is resistant to various forms of damage having 12 points (per round) of resistance against each element and having a hardness of 5 with 15 Hit Points. The pages are really made of Purple Worms skin that is taken from its mucous membrane thus it is really fine and smooth. The pages are still a bit poisonous thus they kill all vermins and moths outright before they.
Each time the spellbook is touched or handeled, except by the owner or person bearing the owners personal sigil or rune, the person handeling the spellbook feels that the book somehow "wakes up" in his touch and if not a succesfull Will save against DC 16 is made he is affected by Backlash (MoF79) but othervise he is unharmed.
Perso under effect of Backlash can detect the book normaly thus Pin Pointing its location. Note that person can be under unlimited number of Backlash.
The book constantly levitates, if not carried by person, but it can support only its own weight plus 5lb. If it is left alone and not carefully observed in strong wind, it might be carried away.
When the book is browsed, a spell is studied or copied from it by anyone, except the owner or person bearing the owners personal sigil or rune, the person is hit by Enervation but the person only thinks that this loss comes from draining handeling of too strong spells.
If a spell is studied, prepared or copied from the book and the books handeler is one step away from the owners aligment or the same, he is surounded by Otiluke's Resilient Spehere for the time of spell preaparing or copying plus additional 11 minutes. The owner of the book or person bearing the owners personal sigil or rune can dismisses this effect by simply touching the sphere.
If a spell is studied, prepared or copied from the book and the handeler is more than one step away from the books owner he is forced to make Fortitude save with DC of 19 or be turned to stone per spell Flesh to Stone.

Caster Level: 11th
Prerequisites: Craft wondrous items; Backlash, Enervation, Flesh to Stone, Levitation, Protection from Elements, Otiluke's Resilient Spehere, mucous membrane from Purple Worm.
Market Price: 38,500 gp
Weight: None (5 lb if the levitation ability is supressed)

If the book iscreated without the two last abilities, the price comes down a bit but then it is wise to keep one or even two spare spellbooks.

Caster Level: 7th
Prerequisites: Craft wondrous items; Backlash, Levitation, Protection from Elements, mucous membrane from Purple Worm.
Market Price: 19,000gp
Weight: none (5 lb if the levitation ability is supressed)