Looking for input. I've got an Arcana Cleric in the party I'm DMing for at the moment. It is a nebulous damn subclass.
The latest "I'm gonna have to look that up and we'll clear it up before the next session" moment: Arcana Cleric finds wizard spell scroll. According to the Spell Scroll RAW, a caster can interpret and cast spell scrolls containing spells from their class list (otherwise the scroll contents are unintelligible). I certainly don't feel that this Arcana Cleric can cast the wizard spells from their scrolls, but the lore-driven DM in me wants to make an allowance to grant this PC the ability to read/interpret or at least identify the spell contained in the scroll according to the rules, as if they were a wizard. The demarcation would be the casting.
What do y'all think about that? Has anyone else run into ruling challenges when running for a party with an Arcana Cleric? It's an obscure class. Hasn't come up for me before now.
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Officially, a character can only read a spell scroll of a spell that's on their class' spell list, as you note. I will point out, in case it's escaped you, that a cleric treats their domain spells as being on the cleric spell list (and that a sufficiently high-level Arcana cleric treats the spells from their 17th-level subclass feature as domain spells).
If you want to let Arcana clerics identify, but not use, wizard spell scrolls, it shouldn't break anything, however you define "wizard spell scrolls".
Looking for input. I've got an Arcana Cleric in the party I'm DMing for at the moment. It is a nebulous damn subclass.
The latest "I'm gonna have to look that up and we'll clear it up before the next session" moment: Arcana Cleric finds wizard spell scroll. According to the Spell Scroll RAW, a caster can interpret and cast spell scrolls containing spells from their class list (otherwise the scroll contents are unintelligible). I certainly don't feel that this Arcana Cleric can cast the wizard spells from their scrolls, but the lore-driven DM in me wants to make an allowance to grant this PC the ability to read/interpret or at least identify the spell contained in the scroll according to the rules, as if they were a wizard. The demarcation would be the casting.
What do y'all think about that? Has anyone else run into ruling challenges when running for a party with an Arcana Cleric? It's an obscure class. Hasn't come up for me before now.
Thanks! : )
"There is a wide world out there, my friend, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth, and the latter makes the journey tolerable." --Montolio Debrouchee
Officially, a character can only read a spell scroll of a spell that's on their class' spell list, as you note. I will point out, in case it's escaped you, that a cleric treats their domain spells as being on the cleric spell list (and that a sufficiently high-level Arcana cleric treats the spells from their 17th-level subclass feature as domain spells).
If you want to let Arcana clerics identify, but not use, wizard spell scrolls, it shouldn't break anything, however you define "wizard spell scrolls".
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