The temple+ addition of caster level (CL) to the item description for scrolls has magnified what I'm guessing to be a vanilla bug/feature...
Going by
this table, casters should improve the CL imparted to scribed scrolls every odd level. So every 2 levels after 1st, it should increment, giving you a progression of... CL1 for 1st and 2nd level, CL2 for 3rd and 4th level, CL3 for 5th and 6th level... and so on. So it would take until 17th level to max it out at CL9. Since you can't choose to scribe at a lower CL in ToEE, this is an automatic assignment.
However, what the game appears to do is simply increment the CL every odd level, but 1:1 with the caster level. So the progression is effectively doubled and the even level CL scrolls are skipped. You start at CL1 and get CL3 at 3rd level, CL5 at 5th level, CL7 at 7th level and have maxed it out by 9th level.
This obviously devalues spell preparation. Even if there remain some spells you're better off preparing (anything with a saving throw and opposed DC) they easily fit into your daily list with little competition. Add to that the lack of AoOs when casting from a scroll (known bug or oversight) and you can trod mindlessly through the game with a giant pile of paper spells. This is one of those bugs that clearly favors the player, but I'd not classify it as a good thing.
This has probably been brought up previously, but it was a difficult issue to track due to lack of the CL value in the item description. Which is a swell addition
The other problem that suddenly jumps out is the unrestricted inventory stacking behavior, where similar scrolls with different CLs are converted to one value... I think it's "last one in", not sure. This one, you can sort of work around if you're careful.
So in short...
- scroll CL progression is too fast
- No AoO when scroll casting is way too friendly
- Unrestricted inventory stacking behavior eats scrolls
self check: Please tell me if I'm horribly misunderstanding 3.5 ed scroll rules
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