PFS--Cost of Scroll of Animate Dead?

[parrot familiar]

How much onyx is "loaded" onto a standard PFS scroll of Animate Dead?

So, many scrolls require material components to be included as part of their cost.

Animate Dead, though, has a sliding scale of material cost based on the HD of the thing you're raising (25 GP of onyx per HD). It's a weird spell because the material cost changes from casting to casting.

I get that a scroll must be at its lowest caster level in PFS, which means level five in this case. Normally a 3rd level wizard scroll would be 375 gold + components. I don't know what to do when the component cost is definitely there, but its amount is undefined.

I assume that rules prevent you from choosing how much onyx is on the scroll you buy, because that would be a custom magic item of sorts. But I can't figure out the proper procedure.

Thanks, everyone!

[Firebug]

Like any item of a spell with variable components, you choose when you buy the item. So you could choose to spend an extra 250 to be able to raise a 10 HD critter, or 25 for a 1 HD. What you can use is still limited by caster level, so you could buy a 20 HD scroll, but unless you also cast desecrate, the rest is wasted.

As always, report it. So make sure you record on the chronicle or inventory tracking sheet the amount of onyx.

[Diego Rossi]

I suppose you will have to sue as much onyx as the caster level of the spell permit, so, with a standard divine scroll with a CL of 5, you will have to load 10 HD of onyx.

Desecrate make that confusing as it double the limit.

As a GM I would specify the limit when the scroll is found: "Divine scroll of animate dead, CL5, 250 gp of onyx used in it"

[Blake's Tiger]

You want to buy one based on your Fame or it's on your chronicle sheet and you want to buy it?

[parrot familiar]

Fame, Tyger! Thanks for the answers so far everyone.

[Viliym]

Since the Caster Level is 5, you'd need to spend +125gp for material components.