Roy wrote:...What the fuck? Illusionary Script isn't just a means to guard spellbooks. I mean it is, but it's also a save or lose with a duration of DAYS.
Go read the description again. Then get yourself a nice jacket.
It really is just to guard spellbooks. The fact that you have to cast it on writing means that the only event it comes up is when someone is looking through your books, so while you can make a nice little
Suggestion trap, the odds are 99% of the time it'll be used to guard spellbooks.
I mean, none of the spells has wording that stops you from casting it on a piece of paper and pasting it to your shield to flash your enemies with it, but it's pretty clear it was never intended to be used that way. The combat uses of starting a surprise combat with an
Explosive Runes or a
Sepia Snake Sigil are obvious, but clearly unintended.
I mean, it would be kind of awesome if you killed the BBEG with a message intended for his eyes only that happened to be an
Illusionary Script with orders to come alone to a ambush spot without his armor and weapons, but getting that to work in any actual adventure is not going to happen for people.
By the same token, the story of a low-level wizard leapfrogging through time by hitting himself with a
Sepia Snake Sigil is neat, it feels to twinkish for fiction.