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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dark2112" data-source="post: 1332271" data-attributes="member: 3503">I used this tactic a few times as a player, but usually it was more along the lines of realizing that we had no party cleric, and someone had been turned to stone... Overcasting can be powerful, but in all honesty, a party simply can't afford to do it very often. How many 3rd level parties can tote around more than 1 disintigrate and still have swords to swing at the goblin hordes? And, once you use that single-shot spell, you've just blown most of your party wealth. Sure, you easily eliminate the BBEG, but what about all the minions he had helping him? No easy way to deal with that now... And perhaps you were wrong about him being the BBEG, maybe he's only the decoy, and you've just unveiled the true (and tougher) BBEG...The way my players and I always worked it - if you attempt to cast the spell, whether successful or not, you lose the scroll. Same as if you had blown a concentration check to cast a prepared spell. Scrolls are handy, but I wouldn't be overly concerned about your party getting too many high level scrolls. Plenty of good pieces of advice have been offered on how to prevent that from happening above, and if the PC's get a little evil and try to rob the place, just remember all the magical wards and traps said shop should have to deter such theft, and also remember that the shopkeeper could always divine who did it if they were successful, and send his own hired NPC squads to bring the players to justice.</blockquote>

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