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<blockquote data-quote="LordAO" data-source="post: 268861" data-attributes="member: 6010"><p>Wonderous items don't follow spells exactly, especially with casting times and components. Sometimes the prerequisites are goofy too. A good example is the cloak of charisma, which requires charm monster when eagle's spleandor is clearly the better spell for it (granted eagle's spleandor came out later). No, the crystal ball doesn't require greater scrying, but in some ways greater scrying is better. It allows any of those spells to be cast through the sensor without failure, a crystal ball doesn't. The crystal ball can be enchanted with true seeing, for example, and always works, wheras a scrying would have a % chance to fail. You will also notice that a crystal ball is extremely expensive. Wondrous items aren't spells. They are unique and often have unique effects. They are simply based on spells and spell like effects, nothing more. In the case of those which allow you to cast a certain spell, it would follow all of the normal rules for that spell. The rule on wondrous items is a standard action to activate unless specifically noted otherwise.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="LordAO, post: 268861, member: 6010"] Wonderous items don't follow spells exactly, especially with casting times and components. Sometimes the prerequisites are goofy too. A good example is the cloak of charisma, which requires charm monster when eagle's spleandor is clearly the better spell for it (granted eagle's spleandor came out later). No, the crystal ball doesn't require greater scrying, but in some ways greater scrying is better. It allows any of those spells to be cast through the sensor without failure, a crystal ball doesn't. The crystal ball can be enchanted with true seeing, for example, and always works, wheras a scrying would have a % chance to fail. You will also notice that a crystal ball is extremely expensive. Wondrous items aren't spells. They are unique and often have unique effects. They are simply based on spells and spell like effects, nothing more. In the case of those which allow you to cast a certain spell, it would follow all of the normal rules for that spell. The rule on wondrous items is a standard action to activate unless specifically noted otherwise. [/QUOTE]

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