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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snoring Rock" data-source="post: 6687454" data-attributes="member: 78325">After having read everything I can find on scrolls/spell scrolls and then taking time to ponder the meaning; now I have another question.  I looked and found only one “scroll”.  It is the protection scroll that just anyone can attempt to use if they can read.  So if you miss your INT check, then you consult the scroll mishap table and roll for those results.  Gee, all that work on a mishap table over one scroll anyone can read?Spell scrolls can only be used by those who have that particular spell on their spell list to cast.  Seems fair enough me.  The rules also state that if it is not on your list, then is appears as gibberish.  I take that to mean that you cannot attempt it.  There is no mention of a check.If I find a spell scroll I like and I want to copy it to my spell book, I can do so but I must make an INT check or risk losing the spell.  It says nothing there about consulting the mishap table. That seems fair, but again, that table seems out of place for one scroll.  I wonder if the rules were meant to be combined somehow and it just never got done.  Did the design team mean to have more types of scrolls?  Why on earth would there be such a thing as a special protection scroll, made for anyone to read?   Looking back at all of this, I think this was not exactly what was intended.  Either the original intention was to have more scrolls, not just protection, or the thought process was lost somewhere.   Also the language used throughout was “arcane”. What happened to divine spell scrolls?  I assume they exist but they just were not mentioned.  I wonder if in the vein of simplification, two different trains of thought never got connected.  Of course, as has been suggested in this thread, you could allow anyone to attempt to read any scroll.  I would probably limit it to other casters.  I don't know.  That lone "scroll" hanging out there is bothersome to me.  Just that one type of protection scroll?  Has anyone seen any explanation on the WotC forums?</blockquote>

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