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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EyeontheMountain" data-source="post: 3301278" data-attributes="member: 32338">This is one point I always see brought up. But how much time does it take to scribe all those scrolls? Ignore the money and xp, though for any spell where you want them to be equal in power to your memorized ones, the hit is heavy, especially in mid-high level games.  Sure a scroll of mage armor made at first level is probably enough for most cases, a magic missle sure isn't. Plus the obviouus point the wizard also has to choose what spell to scribe in the first place. Factor in the actions in combat. Getting a scroll out of storage is not a free action in core, though I remember some way to do it in some book or another. A move action that draws AoOs is not cool in combat, especially if you have to do it several times.Wizards really shine if the DM abhndwaves a lot of the annoying, time consuming aspects of their spellcasting, which is a major limiting factor on them. Between learning a spell (a day) scribing it (another day) Making a few scrolls of it (at least a day, depending on how your Dm reads the scroll creation rules) you have been sitting around a whole lot. Ifthe rest of the party and DM allow you too, then a big drawback ahs been negated.</blockquote>