Requisite ability score to use a scroll (creator or user?)


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To have any chance of activating a scroll spell, the scroll user must meet the following requirements.

* The spell must be of the correct type (arcane or divine). Arcane spellcasters (wizards, sorcerers, and bards) can only use scrolls containing arcane spells, and divine spellcasters (clerics, druids, paladins, and rangers) can only use scrolls containing divine spells. (The type of scroll a character creates is also determined by his class.)
* The user must have the spell on her class list.
* The user must have the requisite ability score.

I know that a Wizard needs an Intelligence score of 15 or higher to use a 5th-level scroll that was created by another Wizard.

But what if the scroll was created by a Sorcerer? Would the Wizard who wants to use this scroll need to have a Charisma score of 15?

I have always assumed that the scroll user simply needs the requisite ability score that they use to cast their own spells. But I think any time this has come up, it has always been with a Wizard trying to use a scroll based on the Wizard scroll cost, so it has always been Int on both ends anyway.


Its based on the caster. The wizard figures out the scroll analytically, the sorcerer just makes it up on the fly.


No matter who the scroll was made by the wizard or sorc's primary casting stat needs to meet the miniumum. He does not use the stat of the creator of the scroll.
If a sorcerer made the scroll the wizard could still use it with an int of 15 as an example.


Thanks for the quick answers!

I have always played it this way in 3.5, and it makes sense, but I got to overthinking it a bit when reading the Pathfinder rules.

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