> In any case, this has strayed far to far into what my game is all about,
> which is a tad OT, no? The only question that I have left that I didn't
see
> an answer for was whether or not Common Magic religions count against the
> starting character's limit of one Specilized Magic Keyword to start. To
ask
> the underlying question, are common magic religion keywords of the same
> "weight" as other religion keywords, or are they "light" enough that they
> shouldn't count against chargen limits? Put yet another way, are the
> occupations and homelands "balanced" in terms of interest that allowing
> these keywords to be associated with the other religions for free balanced
> overall? Is that the idea?
Usually, a common magic religion is "free" in addition to a specialized magic. You can be a Heortling with Flesh Man magic and still worship (as an initiate, since devotees have to "abandon any magic not of their god") one of the god/ess/es of the pantheon.
> The reason that I put "balance" in quotes, brieifly, is that I'm not
> concerned with power balance, but more with just making sure that the
> options are attractive to players enough that they might all be selected.
> That is, I worry that if you make certain homelands have lots of extra
free
> keywords from common magic, that they'll be overly attractive to players.
Well, they aren't keywords per se, and you still only get 5 common magic abilities no matter how many "common magic religions" you belong to (without spending some of your chargen points on them).
RR
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- Richelieu
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