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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 9495345" data-attributes="member: 7030563">Chapter 7, Treasure.  underlined is mine, bold is WOTC:Using a Scroll. Scrolls are consumable items. Unleashing the magic in a scroll requires the user to read the scroll. When its magic has been invoked, the scroll can’t be used again. Its words fade, or it crumbles into dust.Any creature that can understand a written language can read a scroll and attempt to activate it unless its description notes otherwise.So according to the DMG a scroll is clearly both activated and used.Also spells cast from items are described under the section labeled "Activating a Magic Item":Activating a Magic ItemIt usually takes a Magic action to activate a magic item. The item’s user might also need to do something special. The description of each item category or individual item details how an item is activated. Certain items use the following rules for their activation.<h4>Command Word ....</h4><h4>Consumable Items ....</h4><h4>Spells Cast from Items</h4>Some magic items allow the user to cast a spell from the item. The spell is cast at the lowest possible spell and caster level, doesn’t expend any of the user’s spell slots, and requires no components unless the item’s description notes otherwise. The spell uses its normal casting time, range, and duration, and the user of the item must concentrate if the spell requires Concentration. Many items, such as Potions, bypass the casting of a spell and confer the spell’s effects with its usual duration. Certain items make exceptions to these rules, changing the casting time, duration, or other parts of a spell....Finally, I will note that crafting a scroll using the DMG rules requires proficiency in both Arcana and Calligraphy supplies and everyone assisting on it must have BOTH of those proficiencies.  So it would have to be a very specialized Rogue to create an unlimited supply of scrolls to use with Fast Hands.  Crafting a weapon with a spell requires a specific tool proficiency based on the weapon type and Arcana.</blockquote>

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