Originally Posted by Tuco
Originally Posted by Kendaric
Removing the ability to use scrolls from non-casters would go a long way to balance them.
I don't disagree ,but sometime I get the impression that some of you are missing the point:

This is not an "oversight in balance" from Larian, this is exactly what they want... To throw to the player so many tools to be able to compensate even for the most ill-advised party composition.
They WANT everyone being able to use mage spells even without having a mage.
They WANT to trivialize the access to "special abilities" like Speak with the Dead and Speak With Animals.
They WANT unlimited and super-cheap respec to be a far-too-convenient tool bordering into the potential cheat.

And so on.

It's "messed up by design", because they are too afraid to ask the player to COMMIT to any long-term decision and its consequences.

I get that, and I don't even think it's bad design in some cases. Like I think the super-cheap respec is great for friends playing together who aren't familiar with DnD 5e. You don't want the game to become a chore for a friend who got locked into a class he doesn't really enjoy.

I can even understand the whole "making speak to dead and speak with animals easily available" thing. You don't want to feel like you're missing out on a ton of content just because you don't have the right spells.

But the thing is that you can ABSOLUTELY overcome and explore pretty much everything this game has to throw at you without ever casting a single spell. And it's such a huge caster thing that martials get *for free!* Couldn't they at least make it cost a feat if a martial wanted to be able to use scrolls?