> 1) He has an easily removable (well, removable...) Magic Sword ability
Not true. Abilities are abilities are abilities. Hero Wars is not Champions: there are no rules for the item being an Obvious Accessible Focus. And introducing an OAF rule means opening a can of worms (including evil simulationism).
> 2) It only works on one weapon/style
Not a disadvantage at all. But if you insist, imagine the item was a Torq of Authority instead of a Magic Sword, and the roles are reversed. No styles for Clan relationship, so the issue becomes irrelevant.
> 3) he cannot learn new styles at this level (and you MIGHT say he
> can't improve the new ability either)
Its not that difficult for a clever player to justify increasing the ability rating of an item. See the recently posted descriptions of game world justifications for how an Item of Great Power might still have a rating of 12, for examples.
> 4) He can't easily improvise from it
No need to improvise WITHIN combat. As I've mentioned elsewhere, a clever player can improvise use of an ability in a surprisingly wide array of situations.
> 5) Being magical, he can't augment magic with it (OK, so it doesn't
> count as his sole mundane augment either)
Well, augmentation isn't all that worthwhile anyway. Some Narrators allow augmentation of magic with magic (I do). But imagine it was a Well-crafted Foreign Sword instead of a Magic Sword.
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