This year we will begin rolling out the revised versions of formal scrolls. The way this process will work is management will notify the group or individual player about a week or two before the coming event via email. At the end of the event or if the group or player leaves early they will turn their scrolls over to Savannah or myself out of play, and we will store them in an out of play location. Scrolls will be swapped out between events and ready for pick up during check in of the following event.
Prior to turning binders and scrolls over to management, all components, index cards for items, formal areas, and non-scroll cards and tags, will need to be removed from the binders. Management will not be responsible for lost components.
I highly suggest making a list of all scrolls you or your group currently have and note any flaws such as total shots, shots consumed, and unique flaws, and quantity of the scrolls prior to turning them in.
We are removing a few scrolls from the game entirely. Mark of [Element], Aura of Fury, and Aura of Agility are being pulled entirely. If you have one of these you may get a different scroll of equal level in its place.
Some of the cabin guardian (construct, summons, necro) scrolls and a select few other scrolls are not being revised at all. They are not pulled from the game entirely. What's currently in players hands will be the last remaining ones in play. No new versions of these will come out. Merchants will not be selling these, nor can they be obtained as any form of loot from mods, field battles, etc. Components for these may still be found in play or bought from in play merchants so characters can continue to cast them. For cabin guardians this was done to reduce the number of the same type of scrolls at certain levels. Some scrolls such as elementals are going to a single scroll that depending on the component used, will give that flavor of elemental.
Any scroll that is 7th level and above will be shotted. If it was a permanent scroll before it will be printed as a 10 shot scroll with the exception of a few powerful scrolls such as Obliterate. They will be much, much lower than 10 shots. This does bring Teleport, Word of Recall, Mass Teleport, and Mass Word of Recall into a question of when shots are consumed. Shots are only consumed when being used to return, not to set components. Set to your hearts content but returning burns a shot.
Casting times have been adjusted to be standardized across their levels with a few exceptions. Phantom Message will still remain as 10 minutes. More powerful scrolls will be longer than one hour. Formal can be used for great and powerful things but spending a weekend sitting in a cabin can be quite boring.
Dual Realm scrolls will be ones that either a Celestial Formal Caster, or an Earth Formal Caster may use. For alterations such as casting a Earth Formal Ritual in a Celestial Formal Area will be determined by the caster's primary formal column. If the caster's primary column is Earth then the dual realm scroll will be considered Earth. These are primarily low level scrolls such as Invest/Divest and Phantom Message.