Chello!
Steven Wiles
Small point: large population centers are low mana
areas, and are very bad for crafting items.
I've always wondered how many GMs forget this important fact--it is the natural, unspoiled areas that have the best mana, but that urban areas are a blight to magic. Especially large cities like a Roman or Byzantium or Baghdad...most areas of them, I think anyway, should be dead mana areas. Ever wonder why elves prefer the forests? Now you know!
As a final point, some comments regarding an Adept
training people in the use of only a couple of spells.
Whether a GM should allow this depends a lot on his
interpretation of what it means to belong to a
College. Adepts loose all knowledge of spells from
one College when they learn another, and part of being
an Adept is a mindset that is very particular to that
College and mutually contradictory to others. I
-think- that's stated in the books.
It is. I have seen references to the Chaosium "Thieves' World" (Sanctuary) supplement that leads me to believe that they introduced DQ optional rules for allowing adepts to study in two colleges at once. Anybody have a copy of this and can enlighten us? (That's got to be one of the hardest fantasy supplements to find and I love Sanctuary's atmosphere. ~sigh~)
In some instances it makes sense. Greater Summoners who also have knowledge of necromancy. Namers who know shaping magics. Celestial adepts who know some enchantment magic. On the flip side, buying so much magic would really hinder weapons/skills, imho.
Gosh, this was a good question! It really got me
thinking about what my idea of an Adept and a College
really is.
It really was. It even got me to decloak and post. lol
Tony
Anthony N. Emmel
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