Improved memorize page

[Liam Warner]

I really like the memorize page spell from advanced class guide but I'm not a fan of the you can only memorize X pages equal to your intelligence modifier. Especially as it can be cast on beings other than the wizard who may not have a high intelligence score but I'm not good at creating/balancing spells. I was just wondering to remove that limit so everything else about the spell works the same except the target creature can now memorize an unlmited number of pages what level do people think that would be balanced at?

For those who don't have the book its a 1st level spell, 10 minute cast time that allows the target creature to perfectly remember one page of something (text, drawings, schematics etc) and reproduce it.

[LazarX]

Liam Warner wrote:

I really like the memorize page spell from advanced class guide but I'm not a fan of the you can only memorize X pages equal to your intelligence modifier. Especially as it can be cast on beings other than the wizard who may not have a high intelligence score but I'm not good at creating/balancing spells. I was just wondering to remove that limit so everything else about the spell works the same except the target creature can now memorize an unlmited number of pages what level do people think that would be balanced at?

For those who don't have the book its a 1st level spell, 10 minute cast time that allows the target creature to perfectly remember one page of something (text, drawings, schematics etc) and reproduce it.

There really isn't a way to balance an infinite quantity.

[Liam Warner]

Just to be sure we're on the same page I only want to modify the maximum number not the number per casting. So its still only 1 page every 10 minutes, a maxium of 6 an hour if a sorcerer wants to burn through their entire set of memorized spells its just that if you spent the time/effort an ordinary person could still memorize war and peace.

[Bardarok]

The problem with this is going to be downtime. If a player has downtime than they can simply memorize everything basically making all knowledge skills redundant as they have already memorized all the things. It would probably be fine to buff it to 3 plus intelligence modifier or even up to intelligence score, as long as wizards can't memorize spellbooks and you require every page memorized to be specified. But as LazarX said anything infinite is probably going to be unbalanced.

[Liam Warner]

Bardarok wrote:

The problem with this is going to be downtime. If a player has downtime than they can simply memorize everything basically making all knowledge skills redundant as they have already memorized all the things. It would probably be fine to buff it to 3 plus intelligence modifier or even up to intelligence score, as long as wizards can't memorize spellbooks and you require every page memorized to be specified. But as LazarX said anything infinite is probably going to be unbalanced.

There's already rules in it about spells ( can memorize but then need to scribe at usual cost to use). Intelligence score could work since it gives an average person some use from this maybe int * mod?