D&D 5E Read/Write Magic

[Urban Nightmare]

So once upon a time in 2nd ED a character (at least in my campaign) needed to know read/write magic (usually as another language like common or elvish) to read scrolls and to copy spells from someone else's spell book.

Now in 5th ED I noticed under the wizard class it just states how long they need to study the spell (in another book) before they can copy it. I haven't spent a lot of time searching but from what I have found there is nothing stopping anyone from reading a scroll and using the magic from it.

Am I mis-remembering things or am I missing something from 5th Ed?

Thanks.

 

[Mouseferatu]

In the section of spell scrolls in the DMG, it mentions that you must have the spell on your character class list in order to cast it from a scroll.

 

[GX.Sigma]

So once upon a time in 2nd ED a character (at least in my campaign) needed to know read/write magic (usually as another language like common or elvish) to read scrolls and to copy spells from someone else's spell book.

Now in 5th ED I noticed under the wizard class it just states how long they need to study the spell (in another book) before they can copy it. I haven't spent a lot of time searching but from what I have found there is nothing stopping anyone from reading a scroll and using the magic from it.

Read/write magic is not a spell in 5e; it's just a thing all wizards can do. Because, really, how would you be a wizard in the first place if you didn't know how to read and write magic?

Note that this is a feature of the Wizard class. Not just anyone can do it.