>> I've pretty much ignored it, too. I've said that all common magic that
>> is part of your culture is equally available, whether its officially
>> described as feats, spells, charms or talents. All foreign common
>> magic is equally unavailable, again, regardless of type. It's not
>> whether its a feat or a charm that's relevant, its whether its part of
>> your culture/religion or not.
>
> Which is how I think it is supposed to be.
The problem is that "foreign" common magic is not easily identified. There may be a berry bush somewhere on your tula/in your city block/on your riverbank that just happens to give an ability off another culture's CM list. As a narrtaor, I wouldn't prevent a player from taking any CM ability, for just this reason. Heck, an Orlanthi hero might end up with cyclical Lunar Common Magic (I don't know - a meteric fragment on the tula? A bit of an otherwise unknown Storm-friendly lunar being? Looted a charm off a dead soldier?)
Just like all other abilities, the lists of Common Magic abilities are simply non-exclusive starting points. Any ability is available to a player hero, not just the ones on his culture's CM list, or Homeland keyword, or whatever.
RR
He was born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world was mad
R. Sabatini, Scaramouche
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