[dq-rules] Re: Magic. Same topic, Different thread

[Steven Wiles <mortdemuerte@yahoo.com>]

Hm, the Investment Ritual has been a source of
difficulty in my group in the past.  Not so much the
business about not needing to prepare the invested
spell, but rather the fact that it makes no
restrictions on what kind of objects can be invested. 
As I understand it, before I joined the group, they
had people investing spells into every piece of
clothing they were wearing, sometimes down to
individual pieces of thread.  That sorta broke the
system to pieces after a while.

As a result, we instituted a house rule.  An object to
be invested by 32.3 must first be Prepared for
investment by a Shaper.  At a cost.  A steep cost. 
Monetary expense rather sharply curtailed the number
of investable items in the party.

We also tend to run fairly magic-item-sparse campaigns
(by which I mean -permanently- magical items) and keep
character incomes at reasonable levels.  That seems to
keep things in check these days.  One final rule we
instituted is that items could only be prepared to
store spells of a specific College, General -or-
Special.  So, even if players found a Prepared item,
it wasn't necessarily prepared for investment from a
college they belonged to.  And if you want an NPC mage
to invest spells for you, well, that just costs money
too.  Viva la capitalism. :>

Mort



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