What kind of action is "drawing a scroll" (in order to read it afterward)

[Quiche Lisp]

1) Assuming you have a scroll stored in your backpack.

I think that retrieving it is a standard action. Am I correct ?

2) Assuming you have a scroll tugged under your belt

Is taking it.... a move action ?
..... a swift action ?
..... a free action ?

[Jiggy]

Check out the "Combat" chapter of the Core Rulebook. Retrieving a stored item is a move action that provokes AoOs.

[Lab_Rat]

Unfortunately, it does not matter were the item is stored for it to be a move action action to retrieve. If you store the item in a normal bag of holding then the action requires is actually a full round action or a move action (if a backpack amount of stuff is in it).

[SlimGauge]

This is why Handy Haversacks are Handy

Retrieving any specific item from a haversack is a move action, but it does not provoke the attacks of opportunity that retrieving a stored item usually does.

[Karlgamer]

Okay if I have my scroll in a scroll box or scroll tube which is also in my backpack. How many actions is it going to take to get my scroll?

Two move actions?

One to retrieve the box.
One to retrieve the scroll.

[closetgamer]

VERY Handy, in fact! I prefer the Haversack over the BoH personally.. at least at low-mid levels.

[Gilfalas]

closetgamer wrote:

VERY Handy, in fact! I prefer the Haversack over the BoH personally.. at least at low-mid levels.

Haversacks never run out of style. Anything I need quickly in combat goes in mine. Scrolls, rods of metamagic feats, potions, wands, staffs, etc.

Anything I put in a bag of holding is something I don't need to get in a hurry like clothes, bedrolls, tents, food, disassembled balistae, etc.

[Rynjin]

Even better, you can actually put a BoH inside of a Haversack if I remember right.

[Whale_Cancer]

I'm going to be using the semi-new squire feat as a living handy haversack...

[Karlgamer]

So umm my question, above?

[Joesi]

It's GM's ruling. A ridiculous and strict RAW would be 2 move actions technically, but really anyone reasonable (I'd even say RAI) would set it as 1 move action since the scroll case/box is mostly fluff. One could easily say that the scroll wasn't in a second container (either that the scroll was loose in the backpack, or the box/case containing the scroll was just strapped on to the character instead of in the backpack.

It would only matter for maybe like an artifact or wondrous item that you had to open and for whatever reason wouldn't have it out of the backpack already (attached to a sash/belt/cord/strap).