I like the idea of anyone being able to use a scroll, but will spell level play
into this at all?
Eg. If I made a spell scroll of fireball, could a level 1 Fighter cast it?
On 21 Aug 2019, at 01:06, James Atkinson (Redacted sender "atkinsonjames63"
for DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I can go with that, They are one use items and can give us an edge to an
encounter if we are laying in ambush
On Tuesday, 20 August 2019, 23:45:38 BST, Peter Coffey
<peter.coffey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Spell scrolls.
"DMG pg. 200, spell scroll, where it states “If the spell is on your class's
spell list you can use an action to read the scroll and cast its spell
without having to provide any of the spell's component. Otherwise, the scroll
is unintelligible.”
DMG pg. 139, scrolls, it states “Any creature that can understand a written
language can read the arcane script on a scroll and attempt to activate it.”
The Sage Advice Compendium tries to have it both ways by claiming both are
correct, and attempts to differentiate between “scrolls” and “spell scrolls”.
But there aren’t a lot of scrolls which aren’t also spell scrolls. And their
own description of reading a non-spell scroll even includes the text “...and
it allows you to try to activate a spell if you’re literate.” So I find the
compendium “clarification” unsatisfactory."
My personal thinking is: if you can read a scroll then you can cast using a
scroll. Makes them more useful and therefore better treasure in a game where
treasure has been a bit scarce to date.
Thoughts from casters? Does this make you less special?
