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[Rolan7]

Or he abstains because he thinks it'll be funny.

[RedWarrior0]

New one is up.
No title update yet since I'm on mobile

[My Name is Immaterial]

The title is Scroll Left.

[Rolan7]

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Cue fans rushing to the scroll mishap rules on d20srd, and also trying to interpret the magic runes.
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At a glance it's not supported RAW, but makes sense anyway.  As long as the explosion is weak, maybe even nondamaging.

And that is an excellent title.

[heydude6]

It's a shame you can't deliberately miscast a spell in dnd to get an effect like that, but it's still genius and the first time I've laughed in OOT since so long ago that I don't even remember. The plot is interesting though and that's what makes me stay after the humor died.

My only criticism though is that miscasting a divination shouldn't create an explosion. It should create something equivalent to static, or revealing the wrong information.

NINJAED

[Akura]

How did Blackwing even cast the scroll in the first place? Several difficult Use Magic Device checks? I would say that it is possible to do that intentionally if Blackwing is capable of casting from a scroll, but lacks the caster level required to do it automatically, which in turn requires a caster level check(which is failed since Blackwing doesn't even have a caster level), followed by a Wisdom check to avoid a mishap. It looks like Blackwing intentionally failed the Wisdom check, resulting in a mishap. I don't know what the actual Rules are, but the SRD's list of mishaps are guidelines - and it's also GM's choice, not roll for outcome.


Double-checking the SRD page for Use Magic Device, Blackwing could have simply intentionally flubbed a single UMD check, and the resulting outcome is again GM's choice.

[TheBiggerFish]

Ha.
Creative use of failure modes.

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

How did Blackwing even cast the scroll in the first place? Several difficult Use Magic Device checks? I would say that it is possible to do that intentionally if Blackwing is capable of casting from a scroll, but lacks the caster level required to do it automatically, which in turn requires a caster level check(which is failed since Blackwing doesn't even have a caster level), followed by a Wisdom check to avoid a mishap. It looks like Blackwing intentionally failed the Wisdom check, resulting in a mishap. I don't know what the actual Rules are, but the SRD's list of mishaps are guidelines - and it's also GM's choice, not roll for outcome.


Double-checking the SRD page for Use Magic Device, Blackwing could have simply intentionally flubbed a single UMD check, and the resulting outcome is again GM's choice.

It also explains why Blackwing says that the fact he doesn'tknow what he's doing is a good thing.

[Rolan7]

I *think* it's possible to voluntarily fail any check like that, so technically Blackwing is wrong.
But again, it flows really well and makes sense.  The Giant tries to stick with the rules, but bends them a little for jokes all the time.

[Shinziril]

Yeah, it seems like it's not really what the Rules As Written say should happen, but they're explicitly a bit flexible in what happens in this sort of situation.  We also have precedent for failed Use Magic Device checks causing explosions in-universe (although if that was a wand of Fireball, blowing up in her face is definitely more appropriate, RAW-wise).

[Lord Shonus]

Some folks over at GiTP translated the scroll (it uses the same font as the other times magic runes have appeared on screen) as reading "strip #970 p5 establishes that magic items explode when activated improperly."

[Shinziril]

Some folks over at GiTP translated the scroll (it uses the same font as the other times magic runes have appeared on screen) as reading "strip #970 p5 establishes that magic items explode when activated improperly."

Welp.  There it is. 

[TheBiggerFish]

Heh.

[Akura]

Could have been worse, it could have turned out to actually be a scroll of Read Magic.

[RedWarrior0]

New one is up.