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Spell Scrolls: How Many Mystic Ciphers Are There?
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<blockquote data-quote="StormbringerAUS" data-source="post: 7360428" data-attributes="member: 6936541"><p>If nothing else this has got a few of us thinking, though I suspect in my case I will just leave it as the 'hand wave'. Though each class having a cipher I may consider,which means a scroll would be only usable by a particular class as this does make sense to me. I even allow something like if the spell is on a characters spell list but the scroll is created by another class then an Arcana or relevant check could be made to use the scroll. This in my mind implies that the cipher for a spell is similar but not the same for each class but if you know the cipher for one you might be able to break it for another.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I didn't make this very clear I even thought that as I was writing it. I guess to me if say Warlock and Wizard shared spells had one cipher and if Sorcerers had another spell which was in common with the other 2 classes it would be a different cipher, meaning from the original post their would be 67 different ciphers. This just didn't make sense to me felt way to 'clunky'. At some stage a Warlock and Wizard had to come up with a cipher usable by those 2 classes alone and then get a Sorcerer in for the next one. Which didn't doesn't seem realistic at all (of course everything else about the game obeys the laws of physics and common sense so why shouldn't this <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ).</p><p></p><p>I like the overall thinking but expect I will just have it running how it does now but will probably discus with my group and see what they think.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="StormbringerAUS, post: 7360428, member: 6936541"] If nothing else this has got a few of us thinking, though I suspect in my case I will just leave it as the 'hand wave'. Though each class having a cipher I may consider,which means a scroll would be only usable by a particular class as this does make sense to me. I even allow something like if the spell is on a characters spell list but the scroll is created by another class then an Arcana or relevant check could be made to use the scroll. This in my mind implies that the cipher for a spell is similar but not the same for each class but if you know the cipher for one you might be able to break it for another. I didn't make this very clear I even thought that as I was writing it. I guess to me if say Warlock and Wizard shared spells had one cipher and if Sorcerers had another spell which was in common with the other 2 classes it would be a different cipher, meaning from the original post their would be 67 different ciphers. This just didn't make sense to me felt way to 'clunky'. At some stage a Warlock and Wizard had to come up with a cipher usable by those 2 classes alone and then get a Sorcerer in for the next one. Which didn't doesn't seem realistic at all (of course everything else about the game obeys the laws of physics and common sense so why shouldn't this :) ). I like the overall thinking but expect I will just have it running how it does now but will probably discus with my group and see what they think. [/QUOTE]
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