Rules For Creating Spell Scrolls

This campaign uses the spell scroll crafting rules from Xanathar's Guide to Everything, with some changes to the amounts of time and gold required to create a scroll, in order to fit with the setting's economy.

Scribing a spell scroll takes an amount of time and money relative to the level of the spell, as shown in the Spell Scroll Crafting Costs table. These costs represent expensive inks, vellums, and arcane reagents required for the creation of a spell scroll. In addition, in order to scribe a spell scroll, a creature must have proficiency in the Arcana skill, and must provide any material components required for the casting of the spell. The creature must have the spell prepared, or it must be among the creature's known spells.

Wizard Savants. At second level, most wizards gain the ability to copy spells into their spellbooks at half cost, and half of the time, if they are of the appropriate school of magic for the wizard's specialization. This feature also grants a reduction in the time and gold required to create a spell scroll, if the spell is of the appropriate school of magic, as shown in the Spell Scroll Crafting Costs table. Notably, the reduction in time and gold required to create a spell scroll is not as significant as the reduction for copying spells into a spellbook. This is due to the fact that, unlike the notation of a spell in a wizard's spellbook, a spell scroll is an inherently magic item that is able to produce spell effects, and as such it requires a higher baseline of time and reagents to create.