Scroll Trickster Archetype

Magic has long been written down, and in myriad forms. From the classic rolled parchment to strings tied with a hundred intricate knots, from baked clay tablets covered with incisions to bound collections of bamboo slips, magic is everywhere. You just need to know how to read it.

Scroll Trickster Dedication (Feat 2)

Archetype

Dedication

Archetype Scroll Trickster

Prerequisites trained in Arcana, Nature, Occultism, or Religion

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You've studied scrolls in depth. This might have been a comprehensive education in formal setting, or the sort of education where you somehow obtain a number of scrolls and try not to explode anything you didn't mean to explode. You gain the Trick Magic Item feat, and you gain a +2 circumstance bonus to skill checks to Trick scrolls. If you roll a critical failure to Trick a Magic Item that's a scroll, you get a failure instead.

Special You can't select another dedication feat until you have gained two other feats from the scroll trickster archetype.

6th Level Scroll Trickster Feats

Basic Scroll Cache (Feat 6)

Archetype

Archetype Scroll Trickster

Prerequisites Scroll Trickster Dedication

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You have a vast and overflowing collection of scroll scraps, riddled with errors and misspellings and leaking energy like a sieve. With enough care, you can coax these scroll scraps into functioning—briefly. Each day during your daily preparations, you can create a single temporary scroll containing a 1st-level spell. The spell must be a common spell, or another spell you learned via Learn a Spell, and it must come from a tradition in which you have the corresponding skill trained. This scroll is an unstable, temporary item and loses its magic the next time you make your daily preparations if you haven't already used it. It can't be used to Learn the Spell.

At 8th level, add a second temporary scroll containing a 2nd-level spell.

8th Level Scroll Trickster Feats

Skim Scroll [A] (Feat 8)

Archetype

Archetype Scroll Trickster

Prerequisites Scroll Trickster Dedication

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You can activate the magic of a scroll with a cursory read as you draw it from your belt. You Interact to draw forth a scroll, then use Trick Magic Item on the scroll.

12th Level Scroll Trickster Feats

Expert Scroll Cache (Feat 12)

Archetype

Archetype Scroll Trickster

Prerequisites Basic Scroll Cache

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Your scroll collection is more powerful. In addition to your daily scrolls from Basic Scroll Cache, add a scroll with a 3rd-level spell. At 14th level, add a scroll with a 4th-level spell. At 16th level, add a scroll with a 5th-level spell.