1. Notes

Scribing a spell scroll

Minimum lifestyle: Comfortable

With time and patience, a spellcaster can transfer a spell to a scroll, creating a spell scroll.


Resources

Scribing a spell scroll takes an amount of time and money related to the level of the spell the character wants to scribe, as shown in the Spell Scroll Costs table. In addition, the character must have proficiency in the Arcana skill and must provide any material components required for the casting of the spell. Moreover, the character must have the spell prepared, or it must be among the character’s known spells, in order to scribe a scroll of that spell.


If the scribed spell is a cantrip, the version on the scroll works as if the caster were 1st level.


Spell Scroll Costs

Spell Level

Time

Cost

Chance of Complication

Cantrip

1 day

5 gp

10%

1st

1 day

15 gp

10%

2nd

3 days

75 gp

10%

3rd

1 week

250 gp

10%

4th

2 weeks

1,250 gp

10%

5th

4 weeks

2,500 gp

20%

6th

8 weeks

7,500 gp

20%

7th

16 weeks

12,500 gp

20%

8th

32 weeks

25,000 gp

30%

9th

48 weeks

75,000 gp

30%


Complications

Crafting a spell scroll is a solitary task, unlikely to attract much attention. The complications that arise are more likely to involve the preparation needed for the activity, or the concentration and energy required.


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DM resolution

Complications. Complication check against the chance of complication in table - Must beat the percent or suffer one complication. 


Scribe a Scroll Complication

d10

Complications

1

You bought up the last of the rare ink used to craft scrolls, angering a wizard in town.

2

The priest of a temple of good accuses you of trafficking in dark magic.

3

A wizard eager to collect one of your spells in a book presses you to sell the scroll.

4

Due to a strange error in creating the scroll, it is instead a random spell of the same level.

5

The rare parchment you bought for your scroll has a barely visible map on it.

6

A thief attempts to break into your workroom.

7

Loud noises nearby were distracting - you had to spend two additional weeks of downtime.

8

You worked too long without resting: One spell slot of that level is used until your next LR.

9

Hunching over a table takes its toll: Gain one level of exhaustion at the start of your next session.

10

You skipped too many meals: Your next constitution check is at disadvantage.