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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6368486" data-attributes="member: 82106">Protection scrolls in AD&D (and OD&D IIRC) were basically a different class of item than spell scrolls. There was SOME commonality but protection scrolls didn't reproduce the effects of any given listed spell, they were generally unique (though later as the game evolved spells tended to be created that produced similar results). 'Protection from Undead' for instance was both pretty close to absolute, and not like any spell in the book. So these were not items restricted to casters, just consumables that took the form of a scroll (and generally partook of the basic rules of scrolls where appropriate). I don't even think there was a defined way to make a protection scroll, but I may not be correct on that.And yes, if you could read the scroll then you would evoke its magical power, so in AD&D 'read' was the term, not cast. You cast spells and you read scrolls. The results were the same if it was a spell scroll (but there were possibly differences like the level of the effect) but it was still reading, not casting. This could have a variety of implications as casting was subject to many restrictions that reading might not be. Different DMs naturally disagreed on this point to various degrees.</blockquote>