Craft Skill, Spell Tattoo > Scroll?

[kyrt-ryder]

Lets say the party encounters an enemy with a spell tattoo who- for whatever his reasons- does not use it during the encounter and he perishes.

Is it reasonable that with the appropriate craft skills [Craft: Taxidermy? or would Craft: Parchmenter be its own independent thing here?] one could take a corpse and create a Parchment Scroll with the spell already on it?

Naturally this is by far the inferior choice to the Transfer Tattoo spell, by becoming a scroll instead of a spell tattoo it is no longer silent and must be held in order to use. Beyond that, a Spell Tattoo has a market value 4x that of a scroll so the crafter is losing treasure value compared to absorbing the Spell Tattoo as is.

[kyrt-ryder]

Bump?

[kyrt-ryder]

Bump-2

[Milo v3]

I generally allow spell tattoos to transferable like psionic tattoos can.

[kyrt-ryder]

This isn't about transferring the tattoo, there's a spell for that.

It's about turning a tattoo into a scroll, which does make sense when you consider that parchment is made out of skin.

[kyrt-ryder]

So... does anybody have any thoughts on crafting a Magic Scroll from a corpse with a Spell Tattoo?

[VRMH]

It's cool (in a sick way), it's not overpowered, it makes sense and it's unlikely to occur all that often.

So go for it, even in the absence of supporting RAW.

[kyrt-ryder]

I certainly thought so! I'm just looking for opinions/feedback on the theory to gain a bit of consensus for the sake of a game.

Give a reason for a character to take Craft: Taxidermy [or perhaps Craft:Parchment, it might be a specific enough skillset to be its own skill...]

[kyrt-ryder]

One final bump looking for a few more opinions.

[Gilarius]

I'd allow it.

However, the skin would need to be tanned to turn it into something more durable/less rotting (craft or profession:taxidermy, or profession: tanner spring to mind, although I'd allow any reasonable skill to work) and that is likely to damage/degrade the tattoo so the DC is probably higher than someone merely putting a couple of ranks into the skill can achieve.

Transfer Tattoo is very useful, but you already know about that. So is Create Treasure Map, for finding a slain enemy's hoard/magic items. And an enemy with such a tattoo is quite likely to be a minion of someone who put that tattoo on him/her, and might know about some of the loot at his boss' hidden lair...

[kyrt-ryder]

So that's two agreements and no argument. Excellent.

Thank you for your time guys, much appreciated.