[Sorcery] Those Other Spells...

[Emerald Cat]

Originally Posted by Rindis

On an object, it does much the same thing to whatever was written on it, should they be notes, journals, monumental inscriptions.... In AD&D it's actually the reverse of Comprehend Languages, which lets a mage understand any one person or piece of writing (but not speak or write that language).

OK. Now I see what you were stabbing at. I would use Divine Curse(Can't be Read) [-15] for the afflicted Disadvantage. This makes the spell write up a lot more readable.

An out of the box option would be to give the Erase Writing spell a finite duration. I think that applying half of the discount for the Limited Duration limitation is the most logical way to handle this. (Applying the full discount is too generous, in my opinion.) By temporarily erasing the text you would effectively be making it incomprehensible for the duration. In fact, you could make it a special effect that the spell "scrambles" the text instead.