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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 3598096" data-attributes="member: 7808">The debate about how many spells you can put on a scroll has been around as long as 3.x.  It's really a separate issue from the "wealth generation" issue.As to scrolls being unbalancing: no.  They are cost consuming to buy, and are also time consuming and XP consuming to make.  More than enough to balance them.  Wands and staffs are almost always a better deal when they're available.  The fact that they use their own caster level makes them almost useless for attack spells unless you spend ungodly amounts of cash.  The biggest use that I see for scrolls is so PCs can always have a copy of a utility spell around without wasting a slot on it every day.  Also, wealth of a wizard is never an issue if you pay attention to the cost of scribing spells in a spellbook.  Once you get to a high enough level to have a Boccob's Blessed Book, things become a lot easier.  But around that time your wizard is probably also going to need to worry about keeping multiples copies of their spellbook.  Life still won't be cheap.  No other class requires as much money to be able to perform their most basic class abilities.  Scrolls are absolutely necessary for a sorcerer, due to the low number of spells known.  The extreme number of new spells available to a wizard in the multitude of splatbooks makes it even more important for a sorcerer to keep a library of scrolls to come anywhere near the utility of a wizard.</blockquote>

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