Help me with number of spells per day per scroll

[Bouncer]

Hi!

How many spells may you write on a scroll per day?

Reading PHB gives me the impression that only ONE spell with a base price of max 1000 GP may be written on a scroll PER DAY.

Reading DMG however confuses me as it says that MULTIPLE spells may be written on a scroll. Does it mean that MULTIPLE spells may be written PER DAY on a scroll as long as their total base price is a maximum of 1000 GP?

The second ruling means that 40 level 1 spells may be written on a scroll per day.It seems kind of unbalanced!

Please give me a reference if possible. My group will be dead if I use the second ruling on this subject. My NPC's will tear them apart with superior scrolls.

Thank you for your help
Bouncer

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

There isn't a clear answer. The DM will have to decide which way to go.

One thing though, when you scribe a scroll, you need to have the spell memorized, and lose it when it is scribed, so you can't put 40 magic missiles on a single scroll (if you decide that you can put more than one spell on one scroll), unless you were actually capable of memorizing (or casting, for sorcerers) 40 magic missile spells per day.

Letting a character scribe multiple spells on a scroll isn't unbalancing, since you have to abide by the "1 day per 1000gp value" rule.

AR

 

[CalrinAlshaw]

The way my DM handles it, is like this.

You can write 1 spell per day on scrolls.
If the spell is over 1000gp (base price), then it takes more than 1 day.
You can fit multiple spells on a single scroll, each spell though is seperate.

Calrin Alshaw

 

[MerakSpielman]

This is the way I ruled in when this came up in my campaign:

A scroll is considered a single magic item.

You can fit up to three spells on a scroll. I arbitrarily decided that all the spells on a scroll have to be of the same level. There is no rule that I know of to support these judgements, but I believe the magic item tables in the DMG never have more than 3 spells on a scroll.

If a scroll has multiple spells on it, it costs the same as making the scrolls separately (in gold and xp).

The scroll, regardless of how many spells are on it, takes 1 day per 1000gp (rounding up to the nearest thousand) of the crafting price to scribe.


Using this setup, no more than three spells can be scribed to scrolls in one day, but its more generous than allowing only a single spell per day.

 

[Centaur]

...There is no rule that I know of to support these judgements, but I believe the magic item tables in the DMG never have more than 3 spells on a scroll...

Actualy according to page 204 of the 3.0 DMG, the larger scrolls can have 1D6 spells on them.

Other than that minor point, I agree with the rest of how you run it.

 

[Hypersmurf]

You can fit up to three spells on a scroll. I arbitrarily decided that all the spells on a scroll have to be of the same level. There is no rule that I know of to support these judgements, but I believe the magic item tables in the DMG never have more than 3 spells on a scroll.

Table: NUMBER OF SPELLS ON A SCROLL

Scroll Type Number of Spells
Minor scroll 1d3 spells
Medium scroll 1d4 spells
Major scroll 1d6 spells

-Hyp.

 

[MerakSpielman]

All right, I don't see that it would screw up anything too bad to allow 6 spells on a scroll. Finally you can burn xp at a decent rate when crafting them.