Clarification: magic item usage

[Moebius]

I'm re-reading on magic items and who can use them, and have a few questions. Who can use what items?

page 175 in the DMG talks about using items.

Spell Completion - scrolls. A wizard could use a scroll of fireballs, but a cleric could not. Correct?

Spell Trigger - wand or staff. Same as above. You must have the spell somewhere on your spell list to use, even if you can't cast it.

Command Word. Anyone. As long as they know the word, it's cool.

Use activated. Anyone.

Now, for those "anyone" items, it's fine as long as there's no race, level, etc requirements. Correct?

And someone with use magic device (a bard, let's say), can use ANY of these, including scrolls that have spells NOT on his list (say, Magic Missle), pending he's got enough ranks and charisma with a good roll?

Is this about right? Am i missing anything? Thanks in advance

Moebius

 

[Grayswandir]

That all looks correct offhand. Mind you that for that scroll, your wizard may need to make a Spellcraft check if the scroll contains a spell of higher level than he can cast. Note that very very few items actually require the user to be of a specific race or class, so it's unlikely you'll ever run into that particular problem, but yes a good UMD roll can bypass it.

 

[aimster]

That all looks correct offhand. Mind you that for that scroll, your wizard may need to make a Spellcraft check if the scroll contains a spell of higher level than he can cast. Note that very very few items actually require the user to be of a specific race or class, so it's unlikely you'll ever run into that particular problem, but yes a good UMD roll can bypass it.

That's really a level check not a spellcraft check

 

[Hypersmurf]

Spell Trigger - wand or staff. Same as above. You must have the spell somewhere on your spell list to use, even if you can't cast it.

Right. Note that spells from banned schools are not on a specialist wizard's spell list.

-Hyp.