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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 7360409" data-attributes="member: 6787503">Well, it isn't inconceivable that an apprentice spellcaster has devoted many years of study to acquiring the means of unlocking all the mystic ciphers they may encounter in their career that apply to their class's spell list, so I included it because it's a relatively simple option conceptually and allows for different casting classes sharing some spells but not others. What I don't like about this option, though, is by tying the cipher to the individual spell it creates the odd situation that the spellcaster has learned the cipher without learning the only spell to which it pertains. That and the inordinate number of ciphers it would require to exist. I imagine, however, that a reasonable answer to the question asked by the OP may lie somewhere between this and the second option.This is one of the reasons I started thinking about this issue. After reading the item description and understanding that the same scroll could be read by members of different classes who nevertheless derived the ability to read the scroll from their separate classes, I was left with the mental image of a spell scroll as sort of a Rosetta Stone, containing multiple version of the spell, each one written in the cipher of a different class. I hadn't considered the process involved in creating such an item, but I suppose multi-classed individuals could accomplish it.I'm not sure what you mean here. The way I imagine it, the ciphers were invented or discovered by individuals, and their use has been disseminated through time until we arrive at the present state of affairs. It makes sense to me that spellcasters that have different areas of expertise would have bodies of knowledge that are shared across disciplines, while others are passed down only through specific traditions.<s></s><s></s><s>I'm not convinced that the only way to play this as written is to handwave it "because magic". It is a very playable way of limiting who can utilize the scroll, however, ultimately probably because it's so easy to ignore.</s></blockquote>

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