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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 2592416" data-attributes="member: 1656">And yet that's overruled by the above passage.  Items require a standard action to activate unless stated otherwise... except when they're duplicating a spell.But note - this does not appear in the item description, and we have a rule further up that says that the casting time of the spell is the activation time of the item, whether it's a scroll, etc, unless the item description specifically states otherwise.The Spell Completion section is not the item description.  It's the activation method description... and we know that the activation time of an item that duplicates a spell is dependent on the casting time of the spell, rather than being the usual standard action.I wasn't referring to a feat, but to the spell Swift Fly from Complete Adventurer.  But for Core, we can just use Feather Fall.So is 'Cast a Spell', but again, we have Feather Fall.Hmm?  I'm not sure how your emphasis changes anything.However, the casting time of a spell - the casting time of Quickened spell is a free action - is the time required to activate the same power in an item, whether it's a scroll, a wand, or a pair of boots, unless the item description specifically states otherwise.So, the time required to activate a Quickened spell in an item is a free action, unless the item description specifically states otherwise.  And it doesn't.Now, this, I have no argument with.  Retrieving your scroll with the free-action activation time is a move action, barring unusual circumstances.The casting time of the spell - 10 minutes - is the time required to activate the same power in an item.  To read a 10 minute spell off a scroll takes 10 minutes.  Unless the item description states otherwise, but it doesn't.-Hyp.</blockquote>

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