I heard there will be all sorts of crafting in Skyrim (Cooking I think is confirmed, But I am not the best at remembering)
And I wonder how will spell crafting work?
Then I wondered if you could make your own spell scrolls, and what would be involved (A use for gems, perhaps?)
Discuss?

I believe if you can make your own spell... Wouldn't making a scroll be obsolete???

Scrolls don't cost Magicka to cast, and can sometimes be more powerful than spells, but are VERY rare.
I just hope they can be made, probably the more powerful, the more ingredients/ the rarer the ingredients needed.

I think the confirmed non-skill based crafting systems are cooking, farming, woodcutting, and mining (actually not sure about mining).
The confirmed skill based crafting systems are enchanting, alchemy, and smithing.

Spell crafting in the traditional TES sense is pretty much confirmed to be gone. But now we can equip two spells at once, and there's a possibility that there's some spell combining - one of the articles (I think it was the 1UP article) said that in the demo the player combined a chain lightning spell with a protection spell, forming a barrier around the player that would shock enemies that got too close. If this is actually true and there's a complex spell combination system I will personally forget that we ever had the old spellmaking system :biggrin:

As far as making your own scrolls, I could see this as a part of the new enchanting system.

Edit: I guess farming, mining, and woodcutting aren't really crafting systems, but they are things the player might be able to do that could help you with the crafting. (e.g. farming could get you ingredients for cooking, mining could get you ore for smithing, and woodcutting could get you wood for making arrows)

I'm well aware that spellmaking is out, and as Deathcoffee already said, this old of idea spellmaking seems to be, quite literally, in the hands of the player now -- creatively combining spell effects on the fly, when they're needed and in heated moments of combat, when a little extra flair is required, but I actually like the idea of being able to craft our own spellscrolls that we can carry around with us and use at those times when our magicka reserves are emptied, our health is low, and our backs are against the wall. (just single effect scrolls containing spells our character already knows how to cast, but which can be infused with our magicka ahead of time, so that the cost when we actually need to use them is nothing. Used as a last resort, get out of trouble when its absolutely necessary sort of thing)

Yea I hope if you have 2 spells and use the both at the same time that they have unique effects

Something I have wanted since playing Oblivion is the ability to enchant those random blank pieces of paper into one time use scrolls.

Makes sense, considering it was part of the old enchanting system. In Morrowind, besides enchanting weapons/clothing/armor you could make scrolls by using filled Soul Gems to enchant pieces of Paper with an "on use" spell effect.

Well if you a console player nothing will help you,
If you are PC gamer there is mod for you
Enchantment Enhanced
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=18072
Custom Scrolls
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=20689
Mages Quill of Scrollmaking
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=27821

I have strange feeling thats in such way we can create custom spells with mods :wink_smile: