Uh...? What? What exactly was wrong was that the previous rules don't allow you to cast any permanent duration spells without effectively spending a spell slot on the effect every day for the rest of your life.maglag wrote:For starters, Sepia's Snake Sigil.
What exactly was wrong with your previous rules that prevented crazy stacking of permanent effects? Why do you even need secret page? This isn't some intrigue urban campaign you can win with fake messages.
If you insist, well, the least I can do will be booby trap every enemy spellbook to kingdom come, because why wouldn't any wizard do so with those rules? It seems exactly what your character is planning to do and everything.
I'm not sure how "crazy stacking of permanent effects" is a huge problem when regular Wizards can already do that. Your example is Sepia Snake Sigil, which costs 500gp per casting, so while non Kaelik Wizard can have as many Sepia Snake Sigils as he can afford on as many things he wants, a Kaelik Wizard can have as many Sepia Snake Sigils as he can afford on as many things as he wants. Which in my case is zero, because I don't want to spend 500gp per casting for a trap that is ideally never even going to be triggered.
Like, the Kaelik Wizard doesn't replace the regular Wizard, and as a Regular Wizard you can start a campaign by saying "I spend 100% of my wealth on casting Sepia Snake Sigil over and over on these things" and that is just fine, and no one cares because it is a stupid use of money.
I personally plan to cast Sepia Snake Sigil zero times over the course of this character's life. I have no idea why other in campaign Wizards will do differently, but I can always take the precaution of reading books through a glass pane when it comes up.
As to why I need Secret Page... because my entire spellbook and all it's copies are constructed from and use Secret Page to sort and organize their contents.