Number of spells on a scroll debate...ended

[Stalker0]

As far as I know, the question of whether you can put multiple spells on a scroll has never been conclusively answered. Well, I just noticed on pg. 204 of the DMG a table for determing the number of spells on a scroll.

I guess that ends the debate

Of course, if this has been noticed before, please kindly disregard

 

[Petrosian]

i always thought the debate was about whether you could put several spells on a scroll and count their total towards the per day gp limit versus whether you still had to count each spell on a scroll as the one a day thing.

IE the dabate always seemed to me to be whether you could make a scrol of three CLW spells in one day or if it took 3.

The answer i saw from skip at oe time said something like "since you could taer/cut a single scroll with 3 clw spells into 3 individual scrolls, they are for all intents and purposes 3 scrolls and thus three days."

that was a long time ago.

 

[Maitre Du Donjon]

Please, pleeeeeeeeeeeeease lets not start this again

Petrosian is right (about the source of the debate. I will not comment any further, since, like I said, I don't want this to start up again, not that it ever became unpleasant, but its basically the same thing every 2 weeks or so)

Maitre D

 

[rhammer2]

I have always played that each scrolled spell is a separate creation. It doesn't matter whether you put each one on a separate scroll or use a long scroll and put on multiple spells, creation time is the same (minimum of 1 day per spell).

i always thought the debate was about whether you could put several spells on a scroll and count their total towards the per day gp limit versus whether you still had to count each spell on a scroll as the one a day thing.

IE the dabate always seemed to me to be whether you could make a scrol of three CLW spells in one day or if it took 3.

The answer i saw from skip at oe time said something like "since you could taer/cut a single scroll with 3 clw spells into 3 individual scrolls, they are for all intents and purposes 3 scrolls and thus three days."

that was a long time ago.

 

[AuraSeer]

I have always played that each scrolled spell is a separate creation. It doesn't matter whether you put each one on a separate scroll or use a long scroll and put on multiple spells, creation time is the same (minimum of 1 day per spell).

Yeah, that's one of the interpretations. The other way to rule is that the one-day minimum applies per scroll, not per spell.

The DMG does not clearly state which is correct. Hence the confusion. Hence the gazillion pages of pointless debate on the subject.

 

[dcollins]

Of course, if this has been noticed before, please kindly disregard

This has been pointed out in every debate on this subject ever held to date.

 

[kreynolds]

I think such a bold statement requires proof.

 

[Antikinesis]

Actually, there is an unsettled debate about the number of spells permissable on a single scroll. IIRC, the DMG treasure chart allows for up to 6 spells on a findable scroll. I don't recall there being any cap on the numbers of spells that can be scribed on a scroll (other than the limits imposed by available resources and/or time).

Unfortunately, the name of this thread notwithstanding, the debate rages on.

-AK

 

[dcollins]

I think such a bold statement requires proof.

It would certainly be easier for someone to find a single counterexample and prove me wrong.

 

[kreynolds]

It would certainly be easier for someone to find a single counterexample and prove me wrong.

Perhaps just as easy as it was to snip the smilies out of my post? Anyways, you can count me out...it's a real mess back there!