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<blockquote data-quote="frankthedm" data-source="post: 3600170" data-attributes="member: 1164"><p>1. Scrolls with too may spells are very long.</p><p>2. Scrolls are easy targets. </p><p>3. Scrolls do not shrink when part of them are used up. The DM is free to say destroying even a blank part of a scroll ruins the entire scroll. In fact he should say as such so no one tries slicing up a multipage scroll into it’s component spells-scrolls.</p><p>4. If the DM wants to make scrolls harder to use in combat, he is free to say the caster has to have BOTH his hands to use the scroll; One hand to hold the scroll, the other hand to make the somatic gestures for the spell.</p><p>5. I say any part of a scroll dragging on the ground should be treated as an unattended object.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><em>An area about 8 ½ inches wide and 11 inches long is sufficient to hold one spell. The sheet is reinforced at the top and bottom with strips of leather slightly longer than the sheet is wide.</em></span><em> A scroll holding more than one spell has the same width (about 8 ½ inches) but is an <strong>extra foot </strong> or so long for <u>each</u> extra spell.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="frankthedm, post: 3600170, member: 1164"] 1. Scrolls with too may spells are very long. 2. Scrolls are easy targets. 3. Scrolls do not shrink when part of them are used up. The DM is free to say destroying even a blank part of a scroll ruins the entire scroll. In fact he should say as such so no one tries slicing up a multipage scroll into it’s component spells-scrolls. 4. If the DM wants to make scrolls harder to use in combat, he is free to say the caster has to have BOTH his hands to use the scroll; One hand to hold the scroll, the other hand to make the somatic gestures for the spell. 5. I say any part of a scroll dragging on the ground should be treated as an unattended object. [SIZE=1][I]An area about 8 ½ inches wide and 11 inches long is sufficient to hold one spell. The sheet is reinforced at the top and bottom with strips of leather slightly longer than the sheet is wide.[/I][/SIZE][I] A scroll holding more than one spell has the same width (about 8 ½ inches) but is an [B]extra foot [/B] or so long for [U]each[/U] extra spell.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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