Neverwinter Nights/ SoU: how do I scribe scrolls?

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

I’ve got a druid in Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide with the scribe scroll feat, but I can’t figure out how to use it. It’s not appearing under craft skills. Does anyone know what I need to do?

Thanks!
Daniel

[asterion]

I believe scribe scroll is under one of the magic menus. Though I’ve never found it or any of the crafting skills useful.

[bouv]

Druids can’t scribe scrolls, only wizards and bards can, I think. If you have that feat, it was a waste. In theory, druids get a number of spells per day, and they can memorize any spell from the levels they have available, so there’s no need to scribe a scroll.

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

@bouv

Druids can’t scribe scrolls, only wizards and bards can, I think. If you have that feat, it was a waste. In theory, druids get a number of spells per day, and they can memorize any spell from the levels they have available, so there’s no need to scribe a scroll.

Well, that’s really annoying! I wish they hadn’t let me take the feat, in that case.

Druids in regular D&D benefit greatly from scribing scrolls, since as a class they have access to a great number of spells that are useless in most circumstances but that absolutely rock on the rare occasions that they’re necessary–e.g., quench, dominate animal, remove disease, etc. I was gonna try that out.

Oh well.

Daniel

[soulmurk]

No divine casting class can, or has ever been able to, scribe scrolls. Only arcane casters who make use of spellbooks do, as they’re the only ones who have a place to actually scribe it to.

Though druids don’t use or carry spellbooks, the idea of one is pretty cool. Imagine what it would look like: wooden cover with living ivy locking mechanism, highest quality papyrus, natural inks, and of course the requisite “Nature Rulez0rz!” doodles…

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

@soulmurk

Though druids don’t use or carry spellbooks, the idea of one is pretty cool. Imagine what it would look like

“This spellbook was crafted using 70% post-consumer recycled fibers and soy-based ink.”

Daniel

[bouv]

Yeah, the only way to make the feat non-useless is to later on take a level of wizard, sorcerer (forgot about that one before), or bard.

[Marcus_Didius_Falco]

[Stealth Mode Deactivated]
I think what some people are referring to is transfering a spell from a scroll to a caster’s spellbook, which the spellbookless druid wouldn’t be able to do. (Although if they did have a spellbook, I’m sure it would have pages made from organically grown hemp and would perhaps be bound in the hide of an oil company executive)

To scribe a scroll in NWN i.e create a scroll using one of the caster’s known spells, you need to have a blank scroll in your inventory. For a targeted spell you can cast the spell and target the blank scroll, or you can right click on the blank scroll and select the spell you want from the radial menu - this works for both targeted and other spells. There is a cost in gold and xp to scribe the scroll depending on the level of spell. This should work for any spellcasting class, and I’ve just checked it with a druid and it seemed to work fine.

The only thing is, I can’t remember seeing blank scrolls for sale in SoU, which makes me wonder if this feat was added later, in HotU. But on my last play-through I was a ranger and tended to solve most problems with a pair of shortswords, leaving all the spell-casting to Deekin anyway, so I wasn’t really looking for blank scrolls.
[Stealth Mode Activated]

[asterion]

I think it was an HotU addon. At least, that’s what it looks like going through my manuals. The only thing I think you could craft in SoU (and maybe the OC) was traps. I think all the crafting skills were added on with HotU.

And Jarod Ilcast is right. From the HotU manual:

@Hordes of the Underdark Manual

Scribe Scroll. You can create a scroll of any spell that you know. Scribing a scroll costs a small amount of XP and gold, depending on the level of the spell to scribe. Epic spells, spells granted by feats or special abilities cannot be used to scribe a scroll. The blank scrolls required for this feat can be bought in certain stores.

Type of Feat: Item Creation
Prerequisites: Spellcaster Level 1+
Use: Cast spell on blank scroll

[The_Batman]

@Jarod Ilcast

To scribe a scroll in NWN i.e create a scroll using one of the caster’s known spells, you need to have a blank scroll in your inventory…The only thing is, I can’t remember seeing blank scrolls for sale in SoU, which makes me wonder if this feat was added later, in HotU.

Yup, that’s pretty much it. I’ playing through NWN again right now and there were no blank scrolls around in SoU only in HotU.
Of course if you really want some you could use the module builder to add blank scrolls to merchants and monsters, but you’ll have to start the module again for them to appear.