Maybe I'm just hallucinating, but I could swear there was a rule about PCs having to spend an hour with mysterious spell scrolls before they could learn what it did. My players scored several scrolls during Forge of Fury, but I didn't tell them what they were at the time, citing the aforementioned "rule," but now I can't find it in the DMG nor PHB.
Yup, spend a short rest to identify or cast identify spell. Alternatively, I've given players the option to pay the wizard who ran the local magic shop to identify everything for them.
Probably look at the "Identifying a magic item" section on page 136 of the DMG.
Yeah, I did that before posting. It talks about using a short rest to meditate with a magical item, but on page 139 in the "Scrolls" section, the DMG doesn't mention the need to meditate or cast "Identify" on a scroll. In fact, it implies pretty strongly that anyone who can read the language the scroll is written in will know what the scroll is and can attempt to use it. Hence why I'm asking if anyone else has seen the (possibly imagined) rule I was talking about in my original post.
Yup, spend a short rest to identify or cast identify spell. Alternatively, I've given players the option to pay the wizard who ran the local magic shop to identify everything for them.
By "everything," are you including spell scrolls in that option?
Yes, anyone who can read the scroll can use it, just like anyone who can use simple arms can use a magical handaxe. They still wouldn't know what it does. So sure. Someone can read a scroll without knowing it's effects. That could be fun :) But reading a scroll casts and consumes. Identifying doesn't. I should add that reading the scroll does have requirements attached to it depending on the scroll.
Yes, anyone who can read the scroll can use it, just like anyone who can use simple arms can use a magical handaxe.
In order to cast the spell on a spell scroll, the spell must be on your class's spell list.
Yuppers, that's why closed that post with " I should add that reading the scroll does have requirements attached to it depending on the scroll." or conversely depending on your class, whichever way you look at it :)
Maybe I'm just hallucinating, but I could swear there was a rule about PCs having to spend an hour with mysterious spell scrolls before they could learn what it did. My players scored several scrolls during Forge of Fury, but I didn't tell them what they were at the time, citing the aforementioned "rule," but now I can't find it in the DMG nor PHB.
Help?
Probably look at the "Identifying a magic item" section on page 136 of the DMG.
Yup, spend a short rest to identify or cast identify spell. Alternatively, I've given players the option to pay the wizard who ran the local magic shop to identify everything for them.
That's what happens when you wear a helmet your whole life!
My house rules
Yeah, I did that before posting. It talks about using a short rest to meditate with a magical item, but on page 139 in the "Scrolls" section, the DMG doesn't mention the need to meditate or cast "Identify" on a scroll. In fact, it implies pretty strongly that anyone who can read the language the scroll is written in will know what the scroll is and can attempt to use it. Hence why I'm asking if anyone else has seen the (possibly imagined) rule I was talking about in my original post.
By "everything," are you including spell scrolls in that option?
Yes, anyone who can read the scroll can use it, just like anyone who can use simple arms can use a magical handaxe. They still wouldn't know what it does. So sure. Someone can read a scroll without knowing it's effects. That could be fun :) But reading a scroll casts and consumes. Identifying doesn't. I should add that reading the scroll does have requirements attached to it depending on the scroll.
That's what happens when you wear a helmet your whole life!
My house rules
Scrolls are magic items, so of course the rules on identifying magic items apply to them.
In order to cast the spell on a spell scroll, the spell must be on your class's spell list.
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Yuppers, that's why closed that post with " I should add that reading the scroll does have requirements attached to it depending on the scroll." or conversely depending on your class, whichever way you look at it :)
That's what happens when you wear a helmet your whole life!
My house rules