The short version: Does an evoker lose his/her "Intense Spells" bonus no matter what when using a scroll?
The long version: Scroll scribers can add metamagic feats to scrolls, and readers can cast those spells with those feats even if they don't know the feat. Awesome.
According to this thread, there's a FAQ somewhere (the link no longer works) that says that no other "feats or abilities that modify spells" apply when you're using a scroll.
So imagine the poor evoker: He scribes a scroll, but his "intense spell" doesn't apply to the written spell. Otherwise, every magic shop selling damage scrolls would be carrying nothing but evoker scrolls. So it makes sense from a game perspective that it doesn't get included in the scribing.
But then when he triggers the scroll, it's not "casting a spell" so his evocation bonus yet again doesn't apply.
It doesn't seem like *that* big a deal, but it does seem like the evoker's getting "cheated" out of a class feature by using a scroll. And I'm sure people will come up with far more significant examples of the "double whammy" where neither scribing nor invoking allow a bonus that's been bought and paid for by the PC.
Anyone else notice this? Anyone else done anything other than accepting it as RAW and telling evokers to find a better school?
That's all I'm looking for. I'm actually a player in this campaign (believe it or not, I do occasionally get to play... once game every 2 months or so...). Just trying to be 100% clear on RAW so we don't try to argue anything silly. No house rules required.
It's more of an, "I think the rules say this. Am I right?" question.