Can I scribe a scroll without knowing the spell?


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No, they'd be making a divine scroll of cure light wounds because the wizard is just writing down, in magical-writing-form, the power of the cleric's divine cure light wounds spell. If the wizard and cleric were cooperating to make a scroll of resurrection, you wouldn't think it was an arcane version of the resurrection spell, right? Because no arcane class has resurrection on its spell list and nobody would be able to cast that scroll without using UMD.


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Sean K Reynolds wrote:
No, they'd be making a divine scroll of cure light wounds because the wizard is just writing down, in magical-writing-form, the power of the cleric's divine cure light wounds spell. If the wizard and cleric were cooperating to make a scroll of resurrection, you wouldn't think it was an arcane version of the resurrection spell, right? Because no arcane class has resurrection on its spell list and nobody would be able to cast that scroll without using UMD.

So what happens if it appears on both an arcane and divine spell list (and not necessarily on the crafter's spell list)?

Do you get to choose if it is arcane or divine? If not, what determines the source?

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Ravingdork wrote:
Sean K Reynolds wrote:
No, they'd be making a divine scroll of cure light wounds because the wizard is just writing down, in magical-writing-form, the power of the cleric's divine cure light wounds spell. If the wizard and cleric were cooperating to make a scroll of resurrection, you wouldn't think it was an arcane version of the resurrection spell, right? Because no arcane class has resurrection on its spell list and nobody would be able to cast that scroll without using UMD.

So what happens if it appears on both an arcane and divine spell list (and not necessarily on the crafter's spell list)?

Do you get to choose if it is arcane or divine? If not, what determines the source?

I'd say the source determines the source. That is if the wizard know's an arcane spell and supplies that to the scroll its the arcane version. If a cleric knows a divine spell and supplies that to the scroll its the divine version. If both of them know their respective version of the spell they can decide between them which one gets scribbed to the scroll. However if one or both don't have it on their personal spell list they can't scribe their version from the opposiing one i.e. if the cleric knows the divine version and the wizard doesn't know the arcane one they can only make the divine version of the scroll not the arcane one.

With regard to the other debate there's at least one cannon being who's statted as having RESEARCHED arcane versions of every healing spell.

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