Decipher Script (Int, trained only)

You can work with written language.

 Check: This skill allows you to read and understand unfamiliar texts, and create or detect forgeries. With enough training, you can scibe magic scrolls.

Reading Unfamiliar Text

The base DC is 20 for deciphering simple messages, 25 for standard texts, and 30 or higher for intricate, exotic, or very old writing. If the check succeeds, you understand the general content of a piece of writing about one page long (or the equivalent). If the check fails, you might draw a false conclusion at DM's discretion.

Create or Detect Forgeries

Forgery requires writing materials (such as ink, paper, and wax) appropriate to the document being forged. To forge a document on which the handwriting is not specific to a person, you need only to have seen a similar document before, and you gain a +8 bonus on your check. To forge a signature, you need an autograph of that person to copy, and you gain a +4 bonus on the check. To forge a longer document written in the hand of some particular person, a large sample of that person’s handwriting is needed.

The check is made secretly, so that you’re not sure how good your forgery is. As with Disguise, you don’t even need to make a check until someone examines the work. Your Decipher Script check is opposed by the Decipher Script check of the person who examines the document to verify its authenticity. A document that contradicts procedure, orders, or previous knowledge, or one that requires sacrifice on the part of the person checking the document can increase that character’s suspicion (and thus create favorable circumstances for the checker’s opposing Decipher Script check). 

The examiner gains modifiers on his check if any of the conditions on the table below exist.

Scribe Scroll

If you have at least 3 ranks in Decipher Script, you may scribe any spell you know onto a scroll. When you create it, you set the caster level, which must be sufficient to cast the spell in question and no higher than your own level. When you create a scroll, you make any choices that you would normally make when casting the spell. The process is mentally taxing. You may only create one scroll per day for each 5 ranks you have in Decipher Script.

Cost: The base price of a scroll is its spell level × its caster level × 25 gp. Your cost is one-half of this base price in raw materials. If the spell has a costly material component, you must acquire it and use it up in the scribing process as well.

Action: Deciphering the equivalent of a single page of script takes 1 minute of uninterrupted concentration. Forging a short, simple document takes about 1 minute. A longer or more complex document takes 1d4 minutes per page. Scribing a scroll takes 1 hour for each 1,000 gp in its base price.

Try Again: No.

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