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<blockquote data-quote="Olaf the Stout" data-source="post: 4111271" data-attributes="member: 13703">On page 75 of the Rules Compendium, Chris Perkins talks about parties without scrolls of Revivify (Spell Compendium) being &quot;woefully underequipped&quot;.I thought about that for a few minutes and am wondering how exactly one would use a scroll of Revivify successfully.&nbsp; The Revivify spell has a range of Touch and has to be cast on the recently deceased within 1 round of their death.If you are casting Revivify from a scroll I don't see how you can actually cast the spell in time unless:- you are already standing next to the person who has been killed; or - you already have the scroll in hand before the start of your turnBy my understanding, retrieving a scroll is a Move action and casting a spell from a scroll is a Standard action.&nbsp; You need to be able to cast the spell &quot;within 1 round of the victim's death&quot;.&nbsp; By pulling out the scroll and casting it you've already used up all your actions for the turn.&nbsp; So unless you were already standing next to the person who has been killed (possible, but this won't happen too often) or you have spent the whole combat with the scroll in hand (very unlikely) you simply can't make it in time.Am I missing something here or is Revivify a spell that you basically can't cast successfully from a scroll the vast majority of the time (an item Chris Perkins claims you are silly not to have on hand)?Olaf the Stout</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Olaf the Stout, post: 4111271, member: 13703"] On page 75 of the [I]Rules Compendium[/I], Chris Perkins talks about parties without scrolls of [I]Revivify (Spell Compendium)[/I] being "woefully underequipped". I thought about that for a few minutes and am wondering how exactly one would use a scroll of [I]Revivify[/I] successfully. The [I]Revivify[/I] spell has a range of Touch and has to be cast on the recently deceased within 1 round of their death. If you are casting [I]Revivify[/I] from a scroll I don't see how you can actually cast the spell in time unless: - you are already standing next to the person who has been killed; or - you already have the scroll in hand before the start of your turn By my understanding, retrieving a scroll is a Move action and casting a spell from a scroll is a Standard action. You need to be able to cast the spell "within 1 round of the victim's death". By pulling out the scroll and casting it you've already used up all your actions for the turn. So unless you were already standing next to the person who has been killed (possible, but this won't happen too often) or you have spent the whole combat with the scroll in hand (very unlikely) you simply can't make it in time. Am I missing something here or is [I]Revivify[/I] a spell that you basically can't cast successfully from a scroll the vast majority of the time (an item Chris Perkins claims you are silly not to have on hand)? Olaf the Stout [/QUOTE]

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