Embossed scrolls

[jhansonxi]

Can be used without sight.
+25GP per spell level.
Unless user is acclimated to blindness, the DC for deciphering and avoiding mishaps is increased by 5 (in addition to any other adjustments due to lighting and environmental effects).

[Pseudos]

I think that while your gp price is fair, you underestimate how hard it is to understand English lettering in the dark on embossed stone. Given a long period of time, you MAY be able to dis cipher a few lines, but
1. you cant feel more than a letter or so at a time,
2. you have to recognize the letter, then form words, and sentences, and retain all of them to get the whole meaning.
3. Scroll text most likely has more complex lettering than English
4. Scroll text may have symbols or diagrams
5. Any hand that you're currently fingering your scroll with can't make motions, and what's HOLDING that scroll?
6. Embossed scrolls take up more room than a regular scroll
7. the price for a scroll in nonlinear; your pricing should be too
8. Even if you manage to ingrain the entire scroll into your mind from touch, it's not going to be an in-combat kind of thing
9. Even braille, which is designed to be understood by the blind, takes a while to learn to read, and is slower than sight reading.

Is it doable? Maybe, eventually, for low level spells. If you have a language slot to eat up with braile, and that language exists in your campaign world, then its more likely, unless there are diagrams, or shifting magical text that can't be copied without the scroll disappearing. Even if it's doable, it would take much longer than a standard at-glance scroll, and you might not be able to make the correct gestures (spell failure chance) since you might be reading with your free hand.

It would be much easier to make a device that takes a scroll's contents and illusions them into your mind, so you can understand the scroll even in the dark. That, or glowing paint.

[jhansonxi]

Your overthinking the detail level of the D20 system. This was intended for long-term blind casters. There are alternatives. There are only a few situations where being able to use a scroll blindly makes a difference, and most of those will be at low to mid character levels. At higher levels, lighting problems are easily solved. The cost reflects that. Adding more situational modifiers provides little benefit and slows the game down.

[Pseudos]

So glowing ink does exist! I'll be more transparent. For the sake of play, avoiding realism somewhat, sure, long term casters can just use braile or linguistics, brail with no penalty, linguistics with a -5 penalty makes good sense in combat. I do not think that persons without linguistics, braile or the ability to magically decipher writing could use the scroll at all. I think that a +5gp cost/level is fair, but you can always opt to make it 25 instead.