Can a Druid scribe a scroll onto non-parchment?


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1. Onto bark
2. Dead pieces of wood?
3. Onto a cave wall?
4. etc...

I'm not referring to `tattoo magic`.


harmor wrote:

1. Onto bark

2. Dead pieces of wood?
3. Onto a cave wall?
4. etc...

I'm not referring to `tattoo magic`.

I would allow bark strips, and dead pieces of wood. (But they would have to be prepared with special herbs and ungeants to make them accep tthe magic, so no price difference.)

I would not allow a cave wall.

I would think about "etc..."

Shadow Lodge

Sure, if your DM allows it.

Also, (I think) parchment is made from wood and bark.

In 3E, there were a lot of examples of this. Potions that were fruit that you had to eat, or like a (scroll) glow stick you cracked in half to activate.

Essentually the rules didn't change at all, just the fluff, so it was sill a Standard action and everything like that.


Yeah, sure.

You realize that it wouldn't change the cost of the scroll or anything, it would just be putting it on another surface. If anything you would be losing the versatility of a nice light material that's easily portable, so I can't think of a reason not to let you scribe it on a piece of wood or a rock.

The Exchange

There was a variant back in 3.0 that allowed druids to make Infusions, which were basically spells stored in herbs rather than written on paper. It was the same cost and same prereqs., but you ate them rather than read them. Still provoked AoO, still needed the prereq spells, ability scores, and caster levels to use them, but this allowed you to use them while in wild shape, provided you didn't meld them with your form and you have a means of getting to them (like having one of your party members feed you one of them before battle, or just being a Gorilla). It was in Masters Of The Wild if you want to check it out.

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