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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 7219595" data-attributes="member: 907">I'll also add that one of the more important uses of scrolls in 3e is no longer as important in 5e, because of changes in the magic system.See, in 3e, pretty much every condition you could impose on PCs had its own spell to fix it. Remove fear, remove paralysis, lesser restoration, remove blindness/deafness, remove curse, remove disease, neutralize poison, restoration, break enchantment, stone to flesh, greater restoration. Unless you knew you were getting into a situation where one of these would be particularly relevant (e.g. remove paralysis if fighting ghouls, or neutralize poison versus yuan-ti), the chance of getting to actually cast one of these was pretty low, so you didn't want to use up precious spell slots with them. On the other hand, you could be pretty screwed if you didn't have the right one available on short notice. So, what the cleric did was spend some time with the wizard to build up some scrolls of these spells, which could then be used as needed.In 5e, two things have changed that makes that aspect of scroll-usage less important. One is that the number of condition-relief spells are significantly lowered - almost everything on the above list can be handled with lesser and greater restoration, particularly everything that requires immediate attention. The other is that spell preparation is separated from spells cast per day. So if you prepare lesser restoration and don't run into anything that requires removing poisons etc., you can use that spell slot on hold person instead.As an aside, that's why playing an Oracle as a main healer in Pathfinder sucked - with limited spells known, there's no way I could justify getting all the condition-relief spells. It was awesome at low levels when I completely broke color spray though...</blockquote>

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