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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 6687090" data-attributes="member: 907">"Scroll" is a category of magic item, just like "ring" or "wand." The general category of scrolls has very few restrictions of use: you just need to be literate in some tongue in order to read it.However, there is also a specific magic item, "spell scroll". If "scroll" is like "wand", "spell scroll" is like "wand of lightning bolts" - it's a specific example of a general category, and just like the wand of lightning bolts is more limited in its use than the regular wand category, so are spell scrolls - in order to use a spell scroll you need to have the spell in question on your class list, and if you're too low level you run the risk of messing up.You don't need read magic to understand a spell scroll, you just need to be of the right class. If you want to copy it into your spell book, you need to succeed on an Intelligence (Arcana) check with DC 10+spell level (a restriction on that particular item) and spend 2 hours and 50 gp per spell level (because that's the cost in time and gold to copy a spell into your spell book).If you're copying a spell from another spell book, you don't need to roll Arcana, just spend the time and money. I view this as the difference between getting a ready-made meal (the scroll) and getting a recipe (the spellbook). If you have the meal, you can take it apart and try to figure out how it was made, but you might fail in figuring it out - or, you could just enjoy the meal as it is (cast the spell from the scroll once and then be rid of it). But if you have the recipe, there's no problem in figuring out how the mean is made (how the spell is cast) - it's all right there. You will still have to make the meal yourself if you want to eat it though (cast the spell to get any use out of it).</blockquote>

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