Quote Originally Posted by taltamir View Post
that makes no sense whatsoever. the DM controls the availability of both, and can and often DOES restrict scroll access. If you have a ye olde magic shoppe then it should feature "scribing books" with one spell each that you may pay to scribe from (each such book pays for itself after a single such scribe).
and why would "generic monsters" have scrolls, they can't use them unless they have very high UMD or are wizards themselves.
Some DM uses the random treasure generator tables.