Scrollscriber's Supplies Creating a Spell Scroll

Spell Level Scribe Cost Time

The arcane symbols of magic are scrawled in delicate care,
these glyphs of magic infuse the scrolls, books, and even Cantrip 10 gp 8 Hours
tablets they are written on to. Scrollscribes spend their days 1st 60 gp 16 Hours
pushing their magic into scrolls to be used by others or even
by themselves in stressful situations. 2nd 120 gp 24 Hours
3rd 200 gp 32 Hours
Scrollscriber's Supplies
4th 320 gp 40 Hours
Scrollscriber's supplies include five vials of different colored
ink, quills, gold leaf, and 10 sheets of paper. 5th 640 gp 48 Hours
Your tools weigh 3 lbs and costs 65 gp. 6th 1,280 gp 56 Hours
7th 2,560 gp 64 Hours
Scribing a Scroll
8th 5,120 gp 72 Hours
To scribe a scroll you need scrollscriber's supplies, several
hours, materials needed (including gold), and knowledge of 9th 10,240 gp 80 Hours
the spell you wish to create.
No check is required to scribe a spell scroll. Proficiency
Cantrip If you are proficient with scrollscriber's supplies, the gold cost
If the scribed spell is a cantrip, the version on the scroll works to scribe a scroll is halved though not for the material
as if the caster were 1st level. requirements of a spell as you understand how to infuse
magic with less arcane inks and magic. If you are attempting
Intelligence to craft a revivfy spell scroll, a 3rd-level spell, you must expend
To scribe a spell scroll, the scriber must have an Intelligence 300 gp for the material component of the spell as well as
score equal to at least 10 + the spell level. The scribe must spend 100 gp for the material needed for the scroll, a total of
also be able to cast spells of that level and know the spell they 400 gp to produce a revivfy scroll.
are scribing.
It doesn't matter if the scriber uses a different ability for Buying & Selling Scrolls
casting their spells, Intelligence is required for knowing how If you wish to purchase or sell a scroll, the price is based off of
to write the spell out. This means if you have a 12 Intelligence, the level of the spell scroll, as per the Creating a Spell Scroll
you can only scribe up to 2nd level spells. chart and the material cost of the spell. If you wish to
Scribe Cost
purchase a 3rd-level spell scroll of revivfy, it would cost 600 gp
(300 gp for the spell materials, and 200 gp for the scroll
Every scroll requires additional materials than just spell scribe). This cost is subject to DM's discretion and may
materials in order to scribe. You must have a number of increase or decrease depending on the pervasiveness of
sheets of paper and number of vials for each spell scroll you magic, the kingdom's wealth, and other factors.
scribe, as well as other rare and strange ingredients that you
must mix into the vials. When scribing a scroll, you spend an Additional Materials
amount of gold equal to the spell scroll level per the Creating
a Spell Scroll chart. Prices taken from Sane Magical Prices. The scribe cost represents the cost of materials, like ink and
paper, though you may need to buy more if a complication
Spell Slots arises. At DM's discretion, certain exotic and very rare
You must expend the appropriate level spell slot for every 8 materials might provide additional bonuses or abilities to the
hours you are working on a scroll. If you wish to create a level spell scroll, like providing additional uses of a spell scroll or
6 spell scroll, you must expend a level 6 spell slot for every 8 casting a spell that requires an Action, but as a Bonus Action.
hours you work on the scroll, meaning you must expend a 6th
level spell slot six times. Scribing Materials
Item Cost Weight
Spell Material Cost
Case, map or scroll 1 gp 1 lb.
While scribing a scroll, you must first provide the material
cost of the spell. This means if you wish to create a 3rd-level Ink (1 ounce bottle) 10 gp -
revivfy spell scroll, it will require you to spend 300 gp of Ink pen 2 cp -
diamond dust for the spell materials. These materials then
infuse the spell scroll with their essence, this is permanent. Gelatinous Cube Ooze Ink
30 gp -
(1 ounce bottles)
Time Required Paper (one sheet) 2 sp -
You must spend at least 8 hours a day working on your scroll
to make progress. Per the DM's discretion, you could break Quill, Cockatrice feather 10 gp 1/4 lb.
up the 8 hours in increments. Quill, Roc feather 110 gp 1 lb.

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 Variant Rules Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Below are a few variant rules to make scribing a scroll a Xanathar's Guide to Everything provides alternative pricing
special occasion, more difficult or cost more gold and time or and the amount of time needed to scribe a spell scroll.
to limit the amount of scrolls a single character can craft. Consider their alternative if your campaign takes place in a
low magic world or create your own between the two provided
Special Materials spell scroll costs.
In order to craft a spell, you must first gather the required Xanthar's Guide to Everything also provides their own
ingredients (Ink, Parchment and a Quill) and one of those rules for spell scroll creation found on page 133.
ingredients must have something to do with the spell in some Spell Scroll Costs
way. If you wanted to scribe a flesh to stone spell scroll, you
would need to find a special quill made from a cockatrice Spell Level Scribe Cost Time
feather or use ink from a basilisk eyeball. Cantrip 15 gp 1 day
Other special materials would be based on the spell you 1st 25 gp 1 day
wish to create, a few ideas are provided below. You can only
use the material once per spell scroll, if you wanted to create 2nd 250 gp 3 days
multiple flesh to stone spell scrolls, you would have to have 3rd 500 gp 1 workweek
multiple cockatrice feather quills. This could reduce or
replace the cost of a scroll as a trade off. 4th 2,500 gp 2 workweeks
5th 5,000 gp 4 workweeks
Example Special Materials for Spells
Spell Special Material 6th 15,000 gp 8 workweeks
arcane eye goo from a hag eye [ink] 7th 25,000 gp 16 workweeks
one, unbroken piece of bark at least 1 foot 8th 50,000 gp 32 workweeks
barkskin
per spell level [parchment] 9th 250,000 gp 48 workweeks
blade ward a buckler [parchment]
blink venom of a phase spider [ink] Enhanced Spell Scrolls
Some spell scrolls could be crafted so well that you can store
catnap eyelash of a sphinx [quill] their energy in the parchment and have it ready to go off at the
cone of cold black ice from Plane of Ice [quill] slightest word. This would allow a scriber to create the scroll
in such a way that a spell that normally requires an Action to
enlarge/reduce
roc feather [quill, enlarge only] cast could be cast as a Bonus Action instead.
milk from aphids [ink, reduce only] In order to do this, a scribe must spend twice as much time
feather fall chicken feather [quill] as normal and spend twice as much on material spell costs as
fireball liquid fire on the Plane of Fire [ink]
well as the scribe costs. After every 8 hours of work, the scribe
must succeed on an Intelligence (Arcana) check with the DC
identify ash from a burned down library [ink] being 10 + the level of the spell.
blood from your first born son [ink], On a failed check, the spell scroll is destroyed by the arcane
insect plague
leg of a grasshopper [quill] energies, as well as losing all spell component materials and a
portion of the spell scroll material cost per the DM's
mage armor leather armor [parchment] discretion.
maze a minotaur's horn [parchment]
Scribing with other Abilities
meld into
stone tablet [parchment A DM may decide that a scribe can use their main spellcasting
stone ability to determine the level of spells that they can scribe and
revivfy, one, unbroken strip of necrotized flesh at make spell scrolls for. This would mean a cleric or druid could
resurrection least 1 foot per spell level [parchment] use their Wisdom score in place of their Intelligence score to
woven silver chain at least 1 foot per spell
determine what level of spell scrolls they can craft.
rope trick
level [parchment] Limited Spell Scrolls
speak with
skull of a dead humanoid [parchment]
A creature must put a piece of themselves into a spell scroll
dead and it stays in there until the spell is cast. A character can only
thorn whip thorn of a rose [quill] create a number of spell scrolls equal to their Intelligence
modifier plus their Proficiency Bonus, if they produce any
tongues
tongue of a humanoid who spoke a more spell scrolls they lose access to a spell slot equal to the
number of languages per spell level [quill] level of the spell scroll they created. They only regain the use
water of that spell slot once the number of spell scrolls created is
breathing
poison from a blowfish [ink] equal to their spell scroll limit.
zone of truth a liar's tongue [quill]

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Material Components Consumed S
See Invisibility - 25gp Silver Powder
A Sequester - 5,000gp Gem Powder
Astral Projection - 1,000gp & 100gp Silver Bar per person Simulacrum - 1,500gp Ruby Dust
Arcane Lock - 25gp Gold Dust Snare - 25ft Rope
Awaken - 1,000gp Agate Speak with Dead - 150gp Incense
C Stoneskin - 100gp Diamond Dust
Ceremony - 25gp Silver Powder Symbol - 1,000gp Diamond & Opal Dust
Clone - 1,000gp Diamond T
Create Homonculus - 1gp Ash Teleportation Circle - 50gp gems
Commune - 100gp Incense True Resurrection - 25,000gp Diamond
Conjure Elemental (Air) - 100gp Incense True Seeing - 25gp Ointment for the Eyes
Continual Flame - 50gp Ruby Dust
Control Weather - 400gp Incense
D
Divination - 200gp Incense & 25gp Sacrificial Offering
Drawmij's Instant Summons - 1,000gp Sapphire
F
Find Familiar - 10gp Herbs & Charcoal
Forbidance - 60gp Incense
G
Globe of Invulnerability - 1sp Glass Bead
Glyph of Warding - 200gp Diamond Dust & 60gp Incense
Greater Restoration - 100gp Diamond Dust
Guards and Wards - 120gp Incense
H
Hallow - 1,000gp Herbs, Oils & Incense
Heroes' Feast - 1,000gp Gem-Encrusted Bowl
Hypnotic Pattern - 60gp Incense
I
Illusory Script - 10gp Ink & Lead
Invulnerability - 500gp Adamantine
L
Legend Lore - 250gp Incense
M
Magic Circle - 100gp Silver & Iron Powder
Magic Jar - 500gp Ornamental Container
Magic Mouth - 10gp Jade Dust
Mighty Fortress - 500gp Diamond
N
Nondetection - 25gp Diamond Dust
P
Planar Binding - 1,000gp Jewel
R
Raise Dead - 500gp Diamond
Reincarnate - 1,000gp Oils & Unguents
Resurreciton - 1,000gp Diamond
Revivify - 300gp Diamond

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