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I have a couple of questions that came up in our game using contagious flame -
1) if a character doesn't take damage I take it that a new ray of fire does not branch from them, correct?

2) if a character dies as a result from the spell, does a new ray of fire branch from them on the next round?

Once the book is read, the magic disappears from the pages and it becomes a normal book. So, for example, a (+2) is 55,000 gp.

After reading the book it's pretty much useless, so the question is if the book is discarded does the player still have to account for the bonus (gold wise)? I'm just curious because it seems really expensive vs the headbands.

I have a question regarding making a critical threat vs an opponent's AC. If, for example, a weapon is enhanced to have a crit threat of 15-20 and the character is making a full attack, on their last attack they roll within their crit threat but the total does not meet their opponent's AC do they still get a potential crit or do they have to hit the AC to make it count as a hit? I'm also looking for specific rules that support the responses. Many thanks!!!

I'm looking for difinitive answers on a couple questions as well as page references in the rule books - Can you cast a higher level spell via a scroll? If so, what's the DC to pull it off? So far the only reference I've seen is making a Use Magic Device(UMD) check (p. 109 Core Rulebook), though it seems rather high, especially if you're trying to cast a spell from your list X levels higher than you. I've also seen arguments in other threads that the DC is 5 (though no reference to back it up) as well as saying it simply cannot be done.

In addition, what if the DC roll fails, is the person simply not able to use the scroll or do we get into the mishap rules?

Final question on this topic, from what I understand according to the UMD rules any spellcaster can cast ANY spell (arcane or divine) from a scroll so long as they beat the UMD DC, is that correct? If so, does it make a difference if the spell requires M or F components or was that included in making the scroll? For example, Wreath of Blades (UC) requires four mithral daggers, each worth at least 502 gp each.