Scroll-Caster
This silver tube, engraved with an intricate artistic pattern, appears at first glance to be an elaborate scroll case. The caps on either end are each set with a roughly-hewn onyx, bound in silver wire. When a common scroll is in the tube, and both ends caps are fastened, the wielder can sense the arcane energies present and harness them as if they were a spellcaster.
When you gesture with the scroll-caster in hand and speak the command word, roll+INT. On a 10+, the spell scribed onto the scroll is successfully cast (as if it were castable by you or on your class’s spell list). On a 7-9, the spell is cast, but choose one:
• You draw unwelcome attention or put yourself in a spot. The GM will tell you how.
• The spell disturbs the fabric of reality as it is cast—take -1 ongoing to using the scroll-caster until you wait for a minute or two and let reality settle back into place.
• After the scroll’s spell is cast, the scroll is depleted, leaving behind an ordinary sheaf of parchment.
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Yeah!
That’s pretty sweet. Does the scroll get used up?
Maybe there are lesser versions where it does, and greater versions where it doesn’t 🙂
Great! “[A]s if the wielder were a spellcaster”. Does that mean the wielder have to make the “cast a spell” move? I think they should, and that “forgetting the spell” should be replaced by “the scroll is consumed”.
Jordan Raymond , I have edited the above. Better?
I like it!