Annotate Composition creates a reusable item?

[hyphz]

The text for Annotate Composition reads:

Quote:

Any creature that can read the language you used when annotating your composition can Activate the Item by spending a single action, which has the concentrate trait. This produces the effects of the composition as though the activating creature had Cast the Spell.

A composition you create this way loses its power the next time you make your daily preparations.

But it does not state that the item is destroyed when the spell is cast.

The only text that suggests this is above where it states it is transcribed "on a special scroll", and a Magic Scroll would typically destroyed by casting the spell from it. But this is far from clear, since a scroll that you write 'on' is a mundane item, and neither the created item nor the action are stated to have the Consumable or Scroll traits - and the action used on the text is not to Cast A Spell.

Is it intended that Annotated Compositions last until the next daily preparations or until rendered inert, regardless of being cast? (I also note that some scrolls actually have "once per day" listed as their activation frequency, even though they can still only be cast once?)

[whew]

Annotate Composition wrote:

You can’t regain the Focus Points you spent to create the annotated composition until it is activated or loses its magic.

When you activate it, it uses up the focus point(s) used to make it. It is not intended to be used more than once.

[hyphz]

whew wrote:

Annotate Composition wrote:

You can’t regain the Focus Points you spent to create the annotated composition until it is activated or loses its magic.

When you activate it, it uses up the focus point(s) used to make it. It is not intended to be used more than once.

The text seems to imply that the focus point is used up when the item is created, and is available for return via Refocus only after its activation. I can see this giving a reasonable implication that if the spell on the composition costs a focus point, then it is lost after one activation, but what if it is a composition cantrip and the focus point was spent purely to create the item?

[whew]

If you can re-use it, then you should immediately test it right after you make it and get your focus points back. There would be no need for text about not regaining focus points. If they meant to allow multiple uses, they would have worded it differently.

[SuperBidi]

hyphz wrote:

But it does not state that the item is destroyed when the spell is cast.

It's a scroll: "You spend 10 minutes and 1 Focus Point to transpose a composition spell on a special scroll"

Scrolls are consumables.

But I agree it's unclear, as Annotate Composition replaces a bit of everything about scrolls without being really clear about what it keeps. But I think we get the intention behind the rules.