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<blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 7359623" data-attributes="member: 6787503">I think we should expect it to work the way the description of the item says it does. The item description says if you're a member of a class that has the spell on its list, you can read the scroll. Otherwise, you can't because it's written in a code you don't understand. I think that's a fairly direct paraphrase. Because magic's involved, exactly how this is happening is pretty open-ended. You could say, for instance, that the code magically unscrambles itself in response to a member of one of the correct classes trying to read it. I'm open to suggestions.And I'll admit to making an assumption. I assume the mystical cipher operates similarly to other cipher-like elements in the game, such as codes created with the Linguist feat, Druidic, and Thieves' Cant. These &quot;secret codes&quot;, in turn, function for the most part as languages. If someone knows the code, cipher, or language, they can receive the information it contains. So I'm assuming that belonging to a spellcasting class necessarily involves having knowledge that allows you to understand one or more mystical ciphers, and that other spellcasters aren't able to break the same code(s) because they don't have the same spells on their spell lists. So I think knowing how to read this or that cipher is something about the character, and that doesn't mean the &quot;how&quot; can't be something magical the character's doing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hriston, post: 7359623, member: 6787503"] I think we should expect it to work the way the description of the item says it does. The item description says if you're a member of a class that has the spell on its list, you can read the scroll. Otherwise, you can't because it's written in a code you don't understand. I think that's a fairly direct paraphrase. Because magic's involved, exactly how this is happening is pretty open-ended. You could say, for instance, that the code magically unscrambles itself in response to a member of one of the correct classes trying to read it. I'm open to suggestions. And I'll admit to making an assumption. I assume the mystical cipher operates similarly to other cipher-like elements in the game, such as codes created with the Linguist feat, Druidic, and Thieves' Cant. These "secret codes", in turn, function for the most part as languages. If someone knows the code, cipher, or language, they can receive the information it contains. So I'm assuming that belonging to a spellcasting class necessarily involves having knowledge that allows you to understand one or more mystical ciphers, and that other spellcasters aren't able to break the same code(s) because they don't have the same spells on their spell lists. So I think knowing how to read this or that cipher is something about the character, and that doesn't mean the "how" can't be something magical the character's doing. [/QUOTE]

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