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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Timeboxer" data-source="post: 1656034" data-attributes="member: 21471">I still can't figure this out; apologies if it's been brought up before.Now, as far as I can tell, there are two types of scrolls, arcane or divine, and the artificer can emulate any spell to create any magic item (given the appropriate feats), so she should be able to make arcane and divine scrolls.However, the Eberron Campaign Setting suggests that the artificer has no access to any actual arcane or divine magicks, and so any spell she emulates is, I suppose, untyped.  And I remember someone mentioning somewhere that Keith Baker is of the opinion that artificer scrolls are in fact untyped raw magic, but then this brings in the problem of whether wizards and clerics can cast from them at all...Tied up with all this is the entire "Can wizards scribe artificer scrolls?" question, which this problem is probably reducible to.  Apparently some people have a problem with the idea of artificers making arcane/divine scrolls, because it means that the wizard can have access to any spell he wants just by asking the artificer for it -- thus, presumably, allowing the GMs to limit spell access to wizards.Personally I think this makes perfect sense to me, though, because it's not like the artificer is working with some "third" type of magic, for which we thus need a new variety of scroll.  It seems like they understand magic in different ways but that ultimately the artificer can interact with it however she likes:Wizard: "Say, is there any chance that you could scribe me a scroll of the fireball dweomer?" Artificer: "Oh, you mean the iconic instantiation, propulsion, and detonation of a quantum of elemental fire in a conflagration radiating twenty feet?" Wizard: "...uh, right." So, anyway.  Are artificer scrolls arcane or divine, and if not, can they be arcane or divine?</blockquote>

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