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<blockquote data-quote="Norfleet" data-source="post: 1249284" data-attributes="member: 11581">I don't think this is reasonably possible on a horse. You'd have to constantly make ride checks, and given the distraction of simultaneously attempting to write magical scribblings, I'd say this qualifies as a distraction and you shouldn't be able to take 10 on your ride check.Wizards don't really HAVE the ride skill, so I doubt your wizard has any real aptitude for this. He's going to fall off. Falling off your horse definitely constitutes an interruption of your study. Now were tied to the horse and hauled around like luggage, you could try this, since falling off would become impossible. However, this is not a very comfortable position to be riding a horse in, and I would apply the same penalties as if the character had attempted to sleep in heavy armor the next day afterwards.If you were riding a wagon or cart, on the other hand, I would say that this represents no problem whatsoever. Most of the time will be spent studying the scroll, which is more or less completely unaffected by the possibility of bumpiness, and it's not hard to scrawl carefully and (il)legibly in a book even with a fair amount of bumpiness.Of course, I also have atrocious handwriting that most people consider illegible. Wizards, presumably, write similarly, otherwise you wouldn't need to make a spellcraft check just to understand someone else's scrawlings. They must write kinda like modern doctors anyway.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Norfleet, post: 1249284, member: 11581"] I don't think this is reasonably possible on a horse. You'd have to constantly make ride checks, and given the distraction of simultaneously attempting to write magical scribblings, I'd say this qualifies as a distraction and you shouldn't be able to take 10 on your ride check. Wizards don't really HAVE the ride skill, so I doubt your wizard has any real aptitude for this. He's going to fall off. Falling off your horse definitely constitutes an interruption of your study. Now were tied to the horse and hauled around like luggage, you could try this, since falling off would become impossible. However, this is not a very comfortable position to be riding a horse in, and I would apply the same penalties as if the character had attempted to sleep in heavy armor the next day afterwards. If you were riding a wagon or cart, on the other hand, I would say that this represents no problem whatsoever. Most of the time will be spent studying the scroll, which is more or less completely unaffected by the possibility of bumpiness, and it's not hard to scrawl carefully and (il)legibly in a book even with a fair amount of bumpiness. Of course, I also have atrocious handwriting that most people consider illegible. Wizards, presumably, write similarly, otherwise you wouldn't need to make a spellcraft check just to understand someone else's scrawlings. They must write kinda like modern doctors anyway. [/QUOTE]

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