Re: The Scroll Maker's Shop
Cursed scrolls, eh?
Scroll of the Unspeakable
4D6 Suppress Language Skills (40); Limitations: 1 Continuing Charge, Charge lasts one day, Charge never recovers (-1 3/4), OAF Scroll (-1), Extra Time (1 Turn Post Phase 12, -1 1/4), Incantations (Scroll must be read aloud; -1/4), Concentration (1/2 DCV; -1/4), Only applies to speaking (does not apply to understanding or reading, -1/2).
Real cost: 7
This scroll, the bane of magic users, bards, politicians, and public figures the world around, reduces an otherwise eloquent speaker to sounding like a babbling idiot. For one day, the victim of this scroll cannot make any intelligible speech: he can still understand other people, he can write instructions, and he can gesture, but he cannot speak coherently: all vocal effort is incomprehensible by any listener.
You could probably afford to drop the real cost by tacking on a few more limitations, but this gets the idea across.