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#1 transmission89 Jul 29, 2014 7:15:01	Hey all, am currently playing the starter set (and loving it!!) as the Wizard.   In the last session, I got a couple of items that I have questions about.   1) I've got the staff of defence. It says I can use 1 charge for Mage armour or two charges for shield. If I cast Mage armour using the staff, do I stil have to concentrate or am I free to use that concentration for another spell.   2) I also acquired a scroll of fireball. It is a level 3 spell on my class list that I can't cast yet, so I need to make a check to see if I can cast it. (Ability vs dc10 + spell level. So I will be making an intelligence check. Do I add my proficiency bonus to this check (as I am a wizard and should be prof in casting stuffs) or is it just d20+ int mod vs DC?   thanks for any help offered.
#2 jaelis Jul 29, 2014 9:26:13	1) Mage armor is not a concentration spell, so you are free to concentrate on another spell.   2) You don't add your prof bonus unless something tells you to; I don't have the book handy, but I don't think you add your prof bonus to the scroll check.
#3 transmission89 Jul 29, 2014 9:49:06	Ok. Thank you very much ^^.    This will help with the session tonight.
#4 E-Tallitnics Jul 29, 2014 20:37:09	Page 53 of "The Lost Mine..." Has Spell Scroll as a spellcasting ability check vs DC 10 + Spell Level. No mention of adding in you proficiency bonus.
#5 TheGimper Jul 30, 2014 15:22:04	I'm not sure where the best place to ask this is, I can't find anything in the Starter Set or the Basic Rules about how to scale an encounter for more or fewer players. The Lost Mine of Phandelver adventure obviously assumes a maximum of 5 players (since that's all the pregens it includes). My home group sometimes has as many as 8 players. Are there guidelines anywhere for how to scale the encounters?
(Reply to #5) obsid	TheGimper wrote:
#7 TheGimper Jul 30, 2014 19:52:24	obsid wrote:
(Reply to #4) Dyndrilliac	Personally I disagree regarding your second question. I don't have any rules from the basic PDF explicitly supporting my view, but I also didn't see any language explicitly contradicting it either: Your proficiency bonus generally applies whenever you make a d20 roll doing some action you are proficient at. Wizards are proficient at spellcasting, and Fireball is a class spell for Wizards. Therefore, Wizards add their proficiency bonus to spellcasting ability checks to cast scrolls of Fireball.
#9 SeanCaruso Aug 08, 2014 8:01:25	Dyndrilliac wrote:
#10 jaelis Aug 08, 2014 8:59:17	I think the dyndrilliac's argument is that a scroll is sort of a tool, so if you are proficient with scrolls, you would add your prof bonus to checks with them.   However, to my knowledge it never says that wizards (or anyone else) is "proficient" with scrolls. I don't believe that scrolls are a thing you can be proficient with, you can just use them or not.
#11 TrueManiek Aug 08, 2014 11:35:19	Maybe there will be a feat or something that will give a proficiency when using magic items (scrolls, wand and stuff) PS: Can non spellcaster classes also use scrolls, if I remember correctly they could in playtest materials?
#12 TheGimper Aug 08, 2014 12:34:50	jaelis wrote:
(Reply to #9) Dyndrilliac	SeanCaruso wrote:
(Reply to #13) reddaemon	Dyndrilliac wrote: