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{{See also|Scroll (disambiguation)}}
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'''[[Scrolls]]''' are magical [[Consumables]] that allow characters to cast [[Spells]] without expending [[Spells#Spell Slots|Spell Slots]] or being a spellcasting class. Scrolls can be very useful in situations when you do not have any remaining Spell Slots, when you need to cast a Spell that you don't have prepared or when you do not have the required spellcaster in the party.
'''[[Scrolls]]''' are magical [[Consumables]] that allow characters to cast [[Spells|spells]] without expending [[Spells#Spell Slots|spell slots]] or having a spellcasting class. Scrolls can be very useful in situations when you do not have any remaining spell slots, when you need to cast a spell you do not have prepared, or when you do not have the required spellcaster in the party.


== How Scrolls Work ==
== How scrolls work ==
Scrolls in Baldur's Gate 3 follow different rules from the 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons ruleset. Here are some key points of how scrolls work in BG3 (verified as of Early Access Patch 9):
Scrolls in Baldur's Gate 3 follow different rules from the 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons ruleset. Here are some key points of how scrolls work in BG3:
* You can cast any [[Spell]] with the appropriate scroll, even if the spell's level is higher than your highest-level spell slots.
* Any class can cast any [[Spell|spell]] contained on a particular scroll, even if the spell's level is higher than the character's highest-level spell slots, or that character lacks a spellcasting class.
* Any class can cast any spell with the appropriate scroll, even if that class cannot normally cast spells.
** However, conditions that prevent spellcasting, like [[Rage]] and [[Wild Shape]], still apply to scrolls.
** However, conditions that prevent spellcasting, like [[Rage]] and [[Wild Shape]], still apply to scrolls.
* [[Attack Roll]]s and the [[Difficulty Class]] of [[Saving Throw]]s from scrolls '''always''' benefit from your current [[Proficiency Bonus]] and your class's [[Spells#Spellcasting Ability Modifier|Spellcasting Ability Modifier]], even if your class cannot normally cast spells.
[[File:Scribe Spells Example.webp|thumb|Wizards can scribe Scrolls, adding spells to their spellbook]]
* Spell Scribing: A [[Wizard]] who finds a scroll for a spell they do not know may permanently copy that spell to their spellbook at the cost of 50gp per level of the spell. This also consumes the scroll.
* The {{Attack Roll}} and [[Difficulty Class]] of the {{SavingThrow}} from scrolls '''always''' benefit from the character's current [[Proficiency Bonus]] as well as the [[Spells#Spellcasting ability|Spellcasting Ability Modifier]] of its class, even if the class cannot normally cast spells. In case of [[multiclassing]], the spellcasting ability is determined by the spellcasting class the character most recently took a first level in.
** This is reduced to 25gp per spell level for spells belonging to the same school as the Wizard's subclass ''(see [[Wizard#Level 2|Wizard]] for subclass options)''.
* {{SmallIcon|Spell Scribing Icon.webp}} '''Spell Scribing:''' A [[Wizard]] who finds a scroll with a spell they do not know may permanently copy (scribe) that spell to their spellbook at the cost of {{gold|50}} per level of the spell; this also consumes the scroll.
*Some scrolls that are used to cast spells such as [[Eyebite]], spells that give the ability to choose different variants of the spell to cast, cannot be used out of the characters inventory and have to first be put on the character hotbar.
** Cost is reduced to {{gold|25}} per spell level for spells belonging to the same school as the Wizard's subclass ''(see [[Wizard#Level 2|Wizard]] for subclass options)''.
== List of Scrolls ==
** In the event of a class change where the character is no longer a wizard but becomes one again later, spells learned from scrolls will still be memorized. At least one wizard level is required to access them.
** Scrolls can not be created (scribed from a wizards spellbook).
** If one tries to scribe a wizard spell scroll whose level is too high, text will say the wizard level is not high enough. This is not necessarily true. Instead, in order to scribe a higher-level scroll, the '''combined caster levels''' of that character's spellcasting classes must be high enough to cast that spell, yet a character only needs one level of wizard to scribe any wizard spell contained on a scroll {{ref|The peculiar ability of multiclassed spellcasters with a single wizard level having access to most wizard spells via scribing from scrolls (with all the patches that have been applied since its discovery) is likely another example of [https://geek-related.com/2013/10/12/rule-zero-over-the-years/ rule zero] being used by Larian in the game.}}. For example, a character with ''wizard 1/bard 2'' has 2nd-level spell slots, and thus can scribe the 2nd-level wizard spell Detect Thoughts (although in this case they would not be able to learn 2nd level spells from either class during the level-up process).
*** When considering combined caster levels and wizard spells to scribe from scrolls, it may be helpful to bear in mind which [[Spells#Spellcasters|spellcasting classes]] are full, half and one-third casters.
*Scrolls used to cast spells which offer different variants of the spell, such as selecting an element for [[Chromatic Orb]], cannot be used directly out of the character's inventory and must first be put on the character hotbar.
*Scrolls will not be consumed if blocked by [[Counterspell]].
*The level requirements for buying scrolls are as follows:
**'''Character level 1''' : level 1 and 2 spells (also [[Speak with Dead]] which is a level 3 spell). [[Helsik]] can also sell some level 3 and 4 spells to level 1 characters. Yet unlike Helsik (whose scrolls can vary) level 1 and 2 characters can always buy {{SAI|Stoneskin}}, {{SAI|Wall of Stone}}, and {{SAI|Flesh to Stone}} from [[Boney]].
**'''Character level 3''' : level 3 spells
**'''Character level 5''' : level 4 spells
**'''Character level 7''' : level 5 spells
**'''Character level 9''' : level 6 spells
*A [[Sorcerer|Sorceror]] may apply Metamagic to scrolls, with small behavioral differences compared to applying Metamagic to spells:
**Scrolls of spells with sub-spells (Such as [[Chromatic Orb]]) will erroneously report their Sorcery Point cost to be a multiple of the number of sub-spells. For example, applying [[Metamagic: Twinned Spell|Twinned Spell]] to a scroll of Chromatic Orb will report that it requires 7 Sorcery Points instead of 1. Opening the sub-spell menu first before applying Metamagic will allow it to be used.
**Scrolls inside containers cannot have Metamagic applied to them; they must be in the main inventory of the caster.
 
== List of scrolls ==
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=== Utility Scrolls ===
''The following are classified as "utility scrolls" by the game.''
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*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Darkvision|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Detect Thoughts|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Feather Fall|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Jump|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Speak with Dead|40}}
{{div col end}}
=== Rare utility scrolls ===
''The following are classified as "rare utility scrolls" by the game.''
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*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Fly|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Dimension Door|40}}
{{div col end}}
=== Peculiar scrolls ===
''The following scrolls offer spells which may only be obtained by scrolls on this list.''
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*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Artistry of War|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Summon Quasit|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Bestial Communion|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Dethrone|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of True Resurrection|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Signed Trade Visa|40}}
{{div col end}}


=== Cantrips ===
=== Cantrips ===
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*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Bone Chill|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Fire Bolt|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Ray of Frost|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Shocking Grasp|40}}
{{div col end}}


*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Acid Splash}}
=== Level 1 spells ===
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Blade Ward}}
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*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Bone Chill}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Animal Friendship|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Fire Bolt}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Burning Hands|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Ray of Frost}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Charm Person|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Resistance}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Chromatic Orb|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Shocking Grasp}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Colour Spray|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Disguise Self|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Expeditious Retreat|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of False Life|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Feather Fall|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Fog Cloud|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Goodberry|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Grease|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Ice Knife|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Mage Armour|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Magic Missile|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Protection from Evil and Good|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Ray of Sickness|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Sleep|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Summon Quasit|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Tasha's Hideous Laughter|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Thunderwave|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Witch Bolt|40}}
{{div col end}}
=== Level 2 spells ===
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*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Aid |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Arcane Lock |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Blindness |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Blur |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Cloud of Daggers |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Crown of Madness |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Darkness |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Darkvision |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Detect Thoughts |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Enlarge |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Flame Blade |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Flaming Sphere |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Gust of Wind |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Hold Person |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Invisibility |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Knock |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Magic Weapon |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Melf's Acid Arrow |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Mirror Image |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Misty Step |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Ray of Enfeeblement |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Scorching Ray |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of See Invisibility |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Shatter |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Web |40}}
{{div col end}}
=== Level 3 spells ===
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*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Animate Dead|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Bestow Curse|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Blink|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Fear|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Feign Death|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Fireball|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Fly|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Gaseous Form|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Glyph of Warding|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Haste|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Hypnotic Pattern|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Lightning Bolt|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Protection from Energy|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Remove Curse|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Revivify|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Sleet Storm|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Slow|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Speak with Dead|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Stinking Cloud|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Vampiric Touch|40}}
{{div col end}}


=== Level 1 Spells ===
=== Level 4 spells ===
{{div col|content=
{{div col | style = column-width: 22em; list-style-type: none;}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Animal Friendship}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Banishment|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Armour of Agathys}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Blight|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Bane}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Confusion|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Bless}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Conjure Minor Elemental|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Burning Hands}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Dimension Door|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Charm Person}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Evard's Black Tentacles|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Chromatic Orb}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Fire Shield|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Colour Spray}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Greater Invisibility|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Cure Wounds}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Ice Storm|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Disguise Self}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Phantasmal Killer|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Expeditious Retreat}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Polymorph|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of False Life}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Stoneskin|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Find Familiar}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Wall of Fire|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Feather Fall}}
{{div col end}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Fog Cloud}}
=== Level 5 spells ===
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Goodberry}}
{{div col | style = column-width: 22em; list-style-type: none;}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Grease}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Artistry of War|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Guiding Bolt}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Cloudkill|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Healing Word}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Cone of Cold|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Ice Knife}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Conjure Elemental|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Inflict Wounds}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Dethrone|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Jump}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Dominate Person|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Longstrider}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Hold Monster|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Mage Armour}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Planar Binding|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Magic Missile}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Seeming|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Protection from Evil and Good}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Telekinesis|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Ray of Sickness}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Wall of Stone|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Shield of Faith}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Sleep}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Tasha's Hideous Laughter}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Thunderwave}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Witch Bolt}}
}}


=== Level 2 Spells ===
{{div col end}}
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*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Aid }}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Arcane Lock }}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Barkskin}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Blindness }}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Blur }}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Cloud of Daggers }}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Crown of Madness }}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Darkness }}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Darkvision }}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Detect Thoughts }}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Enlarge }}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Flame Blade }}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Flaming Sphere }}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Gust of Wind }}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Heat Metal}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Hold Person }}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Invisibility }}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Knock }}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Lesser Restoration}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Magic Weapon }}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Melf's Acid Arrow }}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Mirror Image }}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Misty Step }}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Moonbeam}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Phantasmal Force }}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Prayer of Healing}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Protection from Poison}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Ray of Enfeeblement }}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Scorching Ray }}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of See Invisibility }}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Shatter }}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Silence}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Spike Growth}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Web }}
}}


=== Level 3 Spells ===
=== Level 6 spells ===
{{div col|content=
{{div col | style = column-width: 22em; list-style-type: none;}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Animate Dead}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Bestial Communion|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Bestow Curse}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Chain Lightning|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Blink}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Circle of Death|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Counterspell}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Disintegrate|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Fear}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Eyebite|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Feign Death}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Flesh to Stone|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Fireball}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Globe of Invulnerability|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Fly}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Otiluke's Freezing Sphere|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Gaseous Form}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Otto's Irresistible Dance|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Glyph of Warding}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Sunbeam|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Haste}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Wall of Ice|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Hypnotic Pattern}}
{{div col end}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Lightning Bolt}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Protection from Energy}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Remove Curse}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Revivify}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Sleet Storm}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Slow}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Speak with Dead}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Stinking Cloud}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Vampiric Touch}}
}}


=== Level 4 Spells ===
== Unavailable scrolls ==
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Banishment}}
Scrolls that can-not be obtained in the game, but are still able to be spawned using 3rd party tools.
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Blight}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Confusion}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Conjure Minor Elemental}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Dimension Door}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Evard's Black Tentacles}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Fire Shield}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Greater Invisibility}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Ice Storm}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Otiluke's Resilient Sphere}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Phantasmal Killer}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Polymorph}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Stoneskin}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Wall of Fire}}


=== Level 5 Spells ===
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Arcane Eye|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Artistry of War}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Counterspell|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Cloudkill}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Dispel Magic|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Cone of Cold}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Find Familiar|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Conjure Elemental}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Jump|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Dethrone}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Longstrider|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Planar Binding}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Otiluke's Resilient Sphere|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Seeming}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Phantasmal Force |40}}


=== Level 6 Spells ===
== Unobtainable scrolls ==
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Disintegrate}}
Scrolls that can-not be obtained in the game and are not able to be spawned using 3rd party tools.
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Dominate Person}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Hold Monster}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Telekinesis}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Wall of Stone}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Circle of Death}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Chain Lightning}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Eyebite}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Flesh to Stone}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Globe of Invulnerability}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Otiluke's Freezing Sphere}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Otto's Irresistible Dance}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Sunbeam}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Wall of Ice}}


<!-- Note: These two headers are linked to by the scroll drop tables. Please don't remove them without a good replacement. -->
Note - Most of these scrolls existed in the Early Access version of the game. In the release version of the game, most non-wizard spell scrolls were removed due to the ability of wizards to learn spells from scrolls.


=== Utility Scrolls ===
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''The following are classified as "utility scrolls" by the game.''
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Resistance|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Darkvision}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Armour of Agathys|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Detect Thoughts}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Bane|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Feather Fall}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Bless|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Jump}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Guiding Bolt|40}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Speak with Dead}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Shield of Faith|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Cure Wounds|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Healing Word|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Moonbeam|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Inflict Wounds|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Acid Splash|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Blade Ward|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Prayer of Healing|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Barkskin|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Protection from Poison|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Heat Metal|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Lesser Restoration|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Silence|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Spike Growth|40}}
{{div col end}}


=== Rare Utility Scrolls ===
== Notes ==
''The following are classified as "rare utility scrolls" by the game.''
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Fly}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Dimension Door}}


=== Unsorted Spells ===
{{notebegin}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Summon Quasit}}
{{reflist}}
*{{MdItemIcon|Scroll of Bestial Communion}}
{{noteend}}


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Scrolls are magical Consumables that allow characters to cast spells without expending spell slots or having a spellcasting class. Scrolls can be very useful in situations when you do not have any remaining spell slots, when you need to cast a spell you do not have prepared, or when you do not have the required spellcaster in the party.

How scrolls work

Scrolls in Baldur's Gate 3 follow different rules from the 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons ruleset. Here are some key points of how scrolls work in BG3:

  • Any class can cast any spell contained on a particular scroll, even if the spell's level is higher than the character's highest-level spell slots, or that character lacks a spellcasting class.
    • However, conditions that prevent spellcasting, like Rage and Wild Shape, still apply to scrolls.
Wizards can scribe Scrolls, adding spells to their spellbook
  • The Attack roll and Difficulty Class of the Saving throw from scrolls always benefit from the character's current Proficiency Bonus as well as the Spellcasting Ability Modifier of its class, even if the class cannot normally cast spells. In case of multiclassing, the spellcasting ability is determined by the spellcasting class the character most recently took a first level in.
  • Spell Scribing: A Wizard who finds a scroll with a spell they do not know may permanently copy (scribe) that spell to their spellbook at the cost of Gold Pile Single Item Image.png 50 gp per level of the spell; this also consumes the scroll.
    • Cost is reduced to Gold Pile Single Item Image.png 25 gp per spell level for spells belonging to the same school as the Wizard's subclass (see Wizard for subclass options).
    • In the event of a class change where the character is no longer a wizard but becomes one again later, spells learned from scrolls will still be memorized. At least one wizard level is required to access them.
    • Scrolls can not be created (scribed from a wizards spellbook).
    • If one tries to scribe a wizard spell scroll whose level is too high, text will say the wizard level is not high enough. This is not necessarily true. Instead, in order to scribe a higher-level scroll, the combined caster levels of that character's spellcasting classes must be high enough to cast that spell, yet a character only needs one level of wizard to scribe any wizard spell contained on a scroll [1]. For example, a character with wizard 1/bard 2 has 2nd-level spell slots, and thus can scribe the 2nd-level wizard spell Detect Thoughts (although in this case they would not be able to learn 2nd level spells from either class during the level-up process).
      • When considering combined caster levels and wizard spells to scribe from scrolls, it may be helpful to bear in mind which spellcasting classes are full, half and one-third casters.
  • Scrolls used to cast spells which offer different variants of the spell, such as selecting an element for Chromatic Orb, cannot be used directly out of the character's inventory and must first be put on the character hotbar.
  • Scrolls will not be consumed if blocked by Counterspell.
  • The level requirements for buying scrolls are as follows:
    • Character level 1 : level 1 and 2 spells (also Speak with Dead which is a level 3 spell). Helsik can also sell some level 3 and 4 spells to level 1 characters. Yet unlike Helsik (whose scrolls can vary) level 1 and 2 characters can always buy Stoneskin Stoneskin, Wall of Stone Wall of Stone, and Flesh to Stone Flesh to Stone from Boney.
    • Character level 3 : level 3 spells
    • Character level 5 : level 4 spells
    • Character level 7 : level 5 spells
    • Character level 9 : level 6 spells
  • A Sorceror may apply Metamagic to scrolls, with small behavioral differences compared to applying Metamagic to spells:
    • Scrolls of spells with sub-spells (Such as Chromatic Orb) will erroneously report their Sorcery Point cost to be a multiple of the number of sub-spells. For example, applying Twinned Spell to a scroll of Chromatic Orb will report that it requires 7 Sorcery Points instead of 1. Opening the sub-spell menu first before applying Metamagic will allow it to be used.
    • Scrolls inside containers cannot have Metamagic applied to them; they must be in the main inventory of the caster.

List of scrolls

Utility Scrolls

The following are classified as "utility scrolls" by the game.

Rare utility scrolls

The following are classified as "rare utility scrolls" by the game.

Peculiar scrolls

The following scrolls offer spells which may only be obtained by scrolls on this list.

Cantrips

Level 1 spells

Level 2 spells

Level 3 spells

Level 4 spells

Level 5 spells

Level 6 spells

Unavailable scrolls

Scrolls that can-not be obtained in the game, but are still able to be spawned using 3rd party tools.

Unobtainable scrolls

Scrolls that can-not be obtained in the game and are not able to be spawned using 3rd party tools.

Note - Most of these scrolls existed in the Early Access version of the game. In the release version of the game, most non-wizard spell scrolls were removed due to the ability of wizards to learn spells from scrolls.

Notes

  1. The peculiar ability of multiclassed spellcasters with a single wizard level having access to most wizard spells via scribing from scrolls (with all the patches that have been applied since its discovery) is likely another example of rule zero being used by Larian in the game.