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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Patryn of Elvenshae" data-source="post: 2344073" data-attributes="member: 23094">I think the information you're looking for can be found here:In short:1.  Yes, you can make a scroll of Empowered Fireball.2.  Anyone who can cast the Fireball spell has the ability to cast it Empowered off of a scroll.  It's still a Fireball spell.  [EDIT: Note that, generally speaking, metamagic feats increase the spell's level, and thereby increase the Caster Level of the scroll.  Thus, while a 5th-level wizard could pick up and cast a "base" Fireball scroll without problem (CL5, 5d6 damage), he'd need to make a caster level check to cast a "base" Empowered Fireball (CL 9, 9d6*1.5 damage).]3.  Wizards can copy spells from scrolls into their spellbooks.The rules text on the sorceror gaining spells is meant to allow DMs to include new spells.  For instance, the only place in your world that anyone can find Abenezer's Inflation is in Abenezer's spellbook, which was, unfortunately, buried a million years ago.  However, if your sorceror has a chance to study Abenezer's work, he can elect to make A's Inflation one of his spells known the next time he's got an open slot.4.  No.  You may learn the base spell, but unless you know the metamagic feat yourself, you can't metamagic a spell.In other words, when reading the spell scroll, the wizard will see, "Huh.  Here's the formula for a potent Fireball, but it's got all this weird stuff mixed throughout it.  I think it'll intensify the flames so evoked, but I'm not really sure how."</blockquote>

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