Spells per scroll

[GM Nitemare]

How many spells can be scribed to a single scroll, anybody know? I can't seem to find the answer anywhere on the PFSrd or in any any book.

[stringburka]

By the rules, one, as in, the object type "magic scroll" only holds a single spell. However, you could probably have as many "magic scroll" objects as you want on a long piece of paper, or as pages in a book. I've occasionally given out "scrollbooks", usually it's been spellbooks that contains only a handful of actual spells as well as a half-dozen scrolls of those spells.

[Gauss]

Scrolls can hold more than 1 spell:

CRB p490 wrote:

Physical Description: A scroll is a heavy sheet of fine vellum or high-quality paper. An area about 8-1/2 inches wide and 11 inches long is sufficient to hold one spell. The sheet is reinforced at the top and bottom with strips of leather slightly longer than the sheet is wide. A scroll holding more than one spell has the same width (about 8-1/2 inches) but is an extra foot or so long for each additional spell. Scrolls that hold three or more spells are usually fitted with reinforcing rods at each end rather than simple strips of leather. A scroll has AC 9, 1 hit point, hardness 0, and a break DC of 8.

- Gauss

Edit: GameMastery Guide p126 has up to 3 spells on a scroll as random items. This seems a reasonable 'soft limit' in my mind.

[JHFizban]

Hmm, what are the pros and cons of this? I guess having one scroll with multiple spells on it means if an enemy can hit it, they can destroy a bunch of spells at once.

On the other hand, you would only have to draw/equip one scroll and then continue casting multiple times without having to dig around for the next scroll you wanted.

Good tradeoff, I guess.

[Gauss]

JHFizban: You pretty much summed it up.

- Gauss