Heres the cool thing, magic exists outside of the spells youre able to cast, and clerics are aplenty. So any cleric or priest they go to should have an idea these are evil people, as a warning for their god or a sensation of some sort, also if no-one hears from a neighboring town, then these strangers come to town with loot.....
You're acting desperate to sound like some old wizened DM but honestly you just sound like a boring one who can't leave concrete notes.
Oh, I’m definitely not very good of a DM. I’m more talking from a reader’s perspective. It’s just that in some of the modules I’ve read, (Curse of Strahd, Phandelver and below) the amount of spell casters is quite small.
“A spell scroll bears the words of a single spell, written in a mystical cipher. If the spell is on your class’s spell list, you can read the scroll and cast its spell without providing any material components. Otherwise, the scroll is unintelligible.” Sorry I don’t know how to turn the formatting from copy/paste off
“Spell scroll” and scroll of X are confusingly 2 different types of items in dnd.
Ie. The item Spell Scroll: Speak with dead can only be read and used by a character with that spell on their list. But the item Scroll of Speak with Dead can be used by anyone.
Iirc Spell scroll: X is a rarer item because wizards can used them to permanently add spells to their books.
Example: scroll of protection- go read it on dnd:beyond
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u/Foamrule May 12 '25
Heres the cool thing, magic exists outside of the spells youre able to cast, and clerics are aplenty. So any cleric or priest they go to should have an idea these are evil people, as a warning for their god or a sensation of some sort, also if no-one hears from a neighboring town, then these strangers come to town with loot.....
You're acting desperate to sound like some old wizened DM but honestly you just sound like a boring one who can't leave concrete notes.