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<blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 7169548" data-attributes="member: 12731"><p>I'm having trouble discerning if this is a serious question.</p><p></p><p>Re-process the OP of this thread, and then ask yourself how good the idea was to bring back non-spell scrolls and the confusion it brings.</p><p></p><p>Alternatively: is the concept of having clear and unambiguous terminology unfamiliar to you? is the design idea that all "scrolls" work alike a surprise to you?</p><p></p><p>The question reads as if every previous post in this thread has gone you by, and that could of course be because you're just pretending to not understand, but it would be impolite to make that assumption. On the other hand, it's hard to give a straight answer without restating the obvious, so... Anyway, here goes.</p><p></p><p>The reason you would want to reserve the term "scroll" for magic items that are consumables that contain spells is because that's what the majority of players are accustomed to; that the notion of other kinds of scrolls was abandoned several editions ago.</p><p></p><p>Sure you can talk about scrolls in the general sense, but that's not what the DMG does. It introduces scrolls that aren't spell scrolls but still are magic items, and it makes spell scrolls only a subset of scrolls, so there are general scroll rules and specific spell scroll rules.</p><p></p><p>All of this is entirely unneccessary and confusing. The single non-spell scroll could just as easily have been named "volute of protection" or something similar. </p><p></p><p>This would have simplified the rules and would have avoided this and other threads. </p><p></p><p>Hope that explains it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CapnZapp, post: 7169548, member: 12731"] I'm having trouble discerning if this is a serious question. Re-process the OP of this thread, and then ask yourself how good the idea was to bring back non-spell scrolls and the confusion it brings. Alternatively: is the concept of having clear and unambiguous terminology unfamiliar to you? is the design idea that all "scrolls" work alike a surprise to you? The question reads as if every previous post in this thread has gone you by, and that could of course be because you're just pretending to not understand, but it would be impolite to make that assumption. On the other hand, it's hard to give a straight answer without restating the obvious, so... Anyway, here goes. The reason you would want to reserve the term "scroll" for magic items that are consumables that contain spells is because that's what the majority of players are accustomed to; that the notion of other kinds of scrolls was abandoned several editions ago. Sure you can talk about scrolls in the general sense, but that's not what the DMG does. It introduces scrolls that aren't spell scrolls but still are magic items, and it makes spell scrolls only a subset of scrolls, so there are general scroll rules and specific spell scroll rules. All of this is entirely unneccessary and confusing. The single non-spell scroll could just as easily have been named "volute of protection" or something similar. This would have simplified the rules and would have avoided this and other threads. Hope that explains it. [/QUOTE]
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