It's all up to how the gm wants to run it. You could suggest a profession herbalist/survival roll and the "gold" gathered from it could be refined into scribing materials.
Craft your own ink with material found in the nature. You will need some time to do so, but it will cost less.
It might be possible to trade for components or gather them yourselves, though it might very well be the case that the feat will see little use in this type of adventure, possibly it is just one less suited to wizards.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Technically, it's not gold required, but the gold values worth of components. Usually, it's just assumed the scribe in question buys the components for listed value.
Your GM should be willing to let you locate the components in down time.
Perhaps a spellcraft, survival, or perception check, or just require so many hours of searching per X GP's worth of components found. It might require some play testing to find a good number or DC for checks like this. Revisit the issue with your GM if you aren't getting enough materials to make scrolls. Also, keep in mind you likely won't see eye-to-eye with your GM on what constitutes 'enough.'
If not, they should be willing to let you swap the scribe scroll feat for something else if it's completely worthless. In PFS play, it's automatically dropped for spell focus instead, which isn't a bad feat at all.
If your GM won't do that either, ask to switch class and swap stats to be a sorcerer, either temporarily until the 'survival' theme of the campaign is done or permanently, because you've got a useless class feature and have been screwed by circumstance.
If that doesn't work, ask your GM for suggestions on a compromise for these issues with your character.
And if none of these things work, find a new GM to play with because your GM is unwilling to worth with you to keep the game fun.