Empowered Scrolls-Help Me Better Understand Them

[Pax Veritas]

I run a monthly Pathfinder RPG game for a different group of players than my weekly game. One character is a necromancer (wizard) who wishes to craft and empower scrolls.

Can someone with a good understanding of RAW, please explain the crafting, empowering, and casting process for these scrolls?

Many thanks!

[Archaeik]

Since no one else seems to want to take a stab at this

AFAIK, metamagic items use the higher level slot with respect to everything else.

Example

Potion of Cure Light Wounds
Spell Level 1st
Caster Level 1st
Cost 50g
Effect 1d8 +1

Potion of Emp CLW
Spell Level 3rd
Caster Level 5th (the lowest level to cast a 3rd level spell)
Cost 750g
Effect (1d8 +5) *1.5

So for scrolls it should be the same thing.
An empowered formula should look something like this

(Spell Level +2) * (Min CL for SpL+2) * 25(scroll cost)
Material components are added to this cost as well.
Crafting costs half of this.

For activation, he should need both of
-ability score = 10 +(SpL +2)
-CL = Min CL for SpL+2

without requiring an additional check

For crafting, Scrolls

Quote:

The creator must have prepared the spell to be scribed (or must know the spell, in the case of a sorcerer or bard) and must provide any material component or focus the spell requires. A material component is consumed when she begins writing, but a focus is not. (A focus used in scribing a scroll can be reused.) The act of writing triggers the prepared spell, making it unavailable for casting until the character has rested and regained spells. (That is, that spell slot is expended from the caster's currently prepared spells, just as if it had been cast.)

I'm sure this means the metamagic version.

(However a rod of empower might be able to get around this)
As usual, you can only devote energy to crafting one item at a time, so even if said empowered scroll is cheap enough to be crafted in 2 hours, you can still only produce one per day.

[Adam Moorhouse 759]

Agreed (though I'd clarify that you don't halve the cost of expensive material components)

[Pax Veritas]

So from a GM perspective, am I just asking the player to deduct appropriate funds? In game, the overall effect of an empowered scroll should function just like any spell cast with the empower feat, yes?

[Happler]

Pax Veritas wrote:

So from a GM perspective, am I just asking the player to deduct appropriate funds? In game, the overall effect of an empowered scroll should function just like any spell cast with the empower feat, yes?

It does function just as you say.

Also, the crafter of the scroll needs to spend 1 day per 1000 gp value crafting, and no more then 1 scroll per day.

Make sure that you read this section:
Magic Item Creation on the d20 pfsrd

You can also find it here in the official Pathfinder Reference doc.

It covers the overall rules for crafting magic items (which scrolls are) and possibilities of failure.

The spellcraft check needed to make a scroll is 5+(CL of scroll). The caster level for the scroll can be anywhere from the minimum level to cast that empowered spell up to the casters current level.

[Austin Morgan]

Happler wrote:

The spellcraft check needed to make a scroll is 5+(CL of scroll). The caster level for the scroll can be anywhere from the minimum level to cast that empowered spell up to the casters current level.

And the cost varies with caster level as well: 25*Spell Level*Caster Level.