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TOPIC: Most Useful Scrolls for Tome of Useful Scrolls?

Most Useful Scrolls for Tome of Useful Scrolls? 1 year 11 months ago #13

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AAckeret wrote: The answer for each individual is the oldest they own, that is also the least available on the secondary market. ;) Take time every now and then to re-evaluate statuses.

Why just the oldest? It's not like you have to commit to which token you're casting until the moment you cast it. Could easily carry a bunch of these around and look for an opportunity to use one of them


Yeah, I was thinking it's like a utility belt, stock it with a ton of tokens and pull out what you need. On the other hand, I'm not sure how many more tokens I want to add to the backpack that's already carrying all the tokens for the whole group. :)

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Most Useful Scrolls for Tome of Useful Scrolls? 1 year 11 months ago #14

This is going to simplify my utility belt because not having to hand the scrolls in means I can carry them in a binder notebook and not sorted pouches. Book in a shoulder bag, scroll list in book's front cover, first token holder page has the most likely used tokens, then the following pages hold the other tokens divided by wizard vs cleric/druid tokens then sorted alphabetically.

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Most Useful Scrolls for Tome of Useful Scrolls? 1 year 11 months ago #15

Every once in a while a scroll is useable to help with a room. This tends to be current year scrolls.

Needing an older scroll to help with a room is a bad design idea since most groups won’t have it.

I see this as a damage scroll usage or grind specific token.

Additional points of damage will hopefully not matter to the group survival.

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Most Useful Scrolls for Tome of Useful Scrolls? 1 year 11 months ago #16

At what point do we see a ruling that this can only be used during combat?
Fall down......Go boom!

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Most Useful Scrolls for Tome of Useful Scrolls? 1 year 11 months ago #17

edwin wrote: Needing an older scroll to help with a room is a bad design idea since most groups won’t have it.


Sure. But there is a difference between "needing" an older scroll to solve a room versus an older scroll having some interesting effect. Potentially even a spectrum of possibilities for a room. It doesn't have to be a binary thing.

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Most Useful Scrolls for Tome of Useful Scrolls? 1 year 11 months ago #18

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Fiddy wrote:

edwin wrote: Needing an older scroll to help with a room is a bad design idea since most groups won’t have it.


Sure. But there is a difference between "needing" an older scroll to solve a room versus an older scroll having some interesting effect. Potentially even a spectrum of possibilities for a room. It doesn't have to be a binary thing.

Additionally, there are the Nightmare/Epic weird runs where you can do more off-the-rails stuff because it's a more narrative effort at that point

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Most Useful Scrolls for Tome of Useful Scrolls? 1 year 11 months ago #19

You never know when the need for something like Stone to Flesh, or see Invisible, might come in handy. There have been lots of Dungeons with an effect that turns you to stone, and I'm sure there will be more. :)

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Most Useful Scrolls for Tome of Useful Scrolls? 1 year 11 months ago #20

Fiddy wrote:

edwin wrote: Needing an older scroll to help with a room is a bad design idea since most groups won’t have it.


Sure. But there is a difference between "needing" an older scroll to solve a room versus an older scroll having some interesting effect. Potentially even a spectrum of possibilities for a room. It doesn't have to be a binary thing.


I completely agree with Fiddy here. Defining a scroll as "useful" only if it is new just doesn't make sense. I can go to Trent's or Kirk's and buy scrolls from year one (2003.) The total number of scrolls you can't easily get on the secondary market are likely less than 10 total. Of those, only 1 or 2 have application for this item.

Yes - some people will have a couple more scrolls than others. The same is true of every token in the game.

I'd love to see this item be used more than 1/game and/or include rare scrolls but as is, it has application. I know I'll be trying things like knock, detect magic, detect life, etc more frequently.

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Most Useful Scrolls for Tome of Useful Scrolls? 1 year 9 months ago #21

If the party has a Ghost Accelerator, Scroll Color Spray will enhance its effectiveness by reducing the ghost's saving throw by 2.

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Most Useful Scrolls for Tome of Useful Scrolls? 1 year 8 months ago #22

Andy Strassmann wrote: If the party has a Ghost Accelerator, Scroll Color Spray will enhance its effectiveness by reducing the ghost's saving throw by 2.


+1 - definitely among the best uses. Outside of that, I'd say magic circle and a number of situational ones but Colorado Spray might be the best use.

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Most Useful Scrolls for Tome of Useful Scrolls? 1 year 8 months ago #23

Fred K wrote: Colorado Spray might be the best

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I'm sure it was just auto-correct, but I couldn't resist. 😈
Have you looked it up in the TDb ?
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Most Useful Scrolls for Tome of Useful Scrolls? 1 year 8 months ago #24

Druegar wrote:

Fred K wrote: Colorado Spray might be the best

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I'm sure it was just auto-correct, but I couldn't resist. 😈


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