Skill Requirement: 400+ Artistry, 400+ Scholarship
Techs: A lot
Specialization: Mandatory
With possession of a spell scroll, the artist is able to, over the course of several days(half of a RL week), duplicate the scroll onto another surface of his or her choosing. The process involves studying the ancient text, absorbing the knowledge, and reflecting how most accurately to re-record it. It is not the writing which takes the longest amount of time--it is the time it takes in order to perfectly comprehend how to scribe the information on another surface that is so staggering.
When the proceedure is finished, two copies of the spell scroll exist; both of which are able to be used just like normal spell scrolls. Upon completion, it takes roughly the same amount of time(half of a RL week) before the artist has mentally prepared him or herself to use this ability again.
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BEVERAGEK
MELLIONM6
Re: Scribe Scroll
05/16/2008 03:36 PM CDT
I seem to recall something about speicialization not being a mandatory thing, same for techs, plus this whole idea of long-term time limits on doing things bothers me as a whole. I'm aware there are a few here and theres in DR that follow this, but lets please not add any more.
--Croegar
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--Croegar
"If you're not a part of the solution,there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem."
Despair Inc. Demotivator
LOFTONM1
Re: Scribe Scroll
05/16/2008 03:49 PM CDT
Specialization is not mandatory to participate in the system, but at least one penalty will be assessed against you for not specializing:
1)doing things takes longer. For instance, if you don't specialize you might be able to forge a broadsword at 50 ranks/8th circle. However, if you do specialize, you might get that %25-50 sooner (25-38 ranks/4-6th circle).
You might also be locked out of certain things you might want to do if you don't specialize.
J'Lo, I'm a ranger.. I'd believe anything.....
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1)doing things takes longer. For instance, if you don't specialize you might be able to forge a broadsword at 50 ranks/8th circle. However, if you do specialize, you might get that %25-50 sooner (25-38 ranks/4-6th circle).
You might also be locked out of certain things you might want to do if you don't specialize.
J'Lo, I'm a ranger.. I'd believe anything.....
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BEVERAGEK
Re: Scribe Scroll
05/17/2008 12:13 AM CDT
>>...plus this whole idea of long-term time limits on doing things bothers me as a whole.
Suggested only so that people can't crank scrolls out repeatedly, otherwise we could have 30 Aether Cloak spell scrolls in the span of a day.
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Suggested only so that people can't crank scrolls out repeatedly, otherwise we could have 30 Aether Cloak spell scrolls in the span of a day.
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DEVAN
Re: Scribe Scroll
05/17/2008 02:08 PM CDT
Yeah. Imagine if we could create 30 gwethsmashers in a day. I would make them, too.
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For your eyes will only tell the truth..
And the truth isn't what you want to see.
In the dark, it is easy to pretend
That the truth is what it ought to be." - Erik Claudin
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"Close your eyes -
For your eyes will only tell the truth..
And the truth isn't what you want to see.
In the dark, it is easy to pretend
That the truth is what it ought to be." - Erik Claudin
MELLIONM6
Re: Scribe Scroll
05/18/2008 09:38 AM CDT
I guess I could understand if the process of making a gwethsmasher took a day to do, but since it doesn't, its a crying shame you can't make a ton a day.
Simu can HELP to keep the things like rare scrolls from being overproduced by limiting necessary materials required for the process.
Scrolls, for instance, may require a specialized magical paper available as a rare drop from a given set of critters. Maybe it requires specially enhanced ink made by mixing some kind of dying agent with enchanted platinum dust, a product produced by having a high level enchanter put the proper enchantment on a platinum bar (likely a rare critter drop again) and then placing it in an engineer's metal grinder.
Still, in my eyes, if the process takes you 45 minutes to complete, and you have 8 sets of materials, you should be able to do it 8 times consecutively (warranted your mind state may be "Very Frozen" by the time you're done).
Another limiting method may be TDP cost. If the fiction of the action is written to require a bit of the character's soul or life force, TDP cost makes good sense. Who wants to waste 8 points of a stat on a routine basis?
--Croegar
"If you're not a part of the solution,there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem."
Despair Inc. Demotivator
Simu can HELP to keep the things like rare scrolls from being overproduced by limiting necessary materials required for the process.
Scrolls, for instance, may require a specialized magical paper available as a rare drop from a given set of critters. Maybe it requires specially enhanced ink made by mixing some kind of dying agent with enchanted platinum dust, a product produced by having a high level enchanter put the proper enchantment on a platinum bar (likely a rare critter drop again) and then placing it in an engineer's metal grinder.
Still, in my eyes, if the process takes you 45 minutes to complete, and you have 8 sets of materials, you should be able to do it 8 times consecutively (warranted your mind state may be "Very Frozen" by the time you're done).
Another limiting method may be TDP cost. If the fiction of the action is written to require a bit of the character's soul or life force, TDP cost makes good sense. Who wants to waste 8 points of a stat on a routine basis?
--Croegar
"If you're not a part of the solution,there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem."
Despair Inc. Demotivator
BEVERAGEK
Re: Scribe Scroll
05/18/2008 12:30 PM CDT
>>Another limiting method may be TDP cost.
Requiring an expendable item be created with a very valuable and finite resource seems quite unreasonable IMO.
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Requiring an expendable item be created with a very valuable and finite resource seems quite unreasonable IMO.
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AKERMAN
Re: Scribe Scroll
05/18/2008 01:30 PM CDT
>>Requiring an expendable item be created with a very valuable and finite resource seems quite unreasonable IMO.
Agreed. I'm perfectly fine with timers.
~Kashik
Agreed. I'm perfectly fine with timers.
~Kashik
