> 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.
It may give an ability that does the same thing, yeah, because the CM lists aren't exclusive.
> 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?)
Whereas that is the sort of thing I don't think I would allow. Although I'm not sure; it hasn't cropped up. Could be more of a 'you shouldn't use this' (so you get visited by impests, say) than 'you can't'.
> 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.
Yes, that's an important point to bear in mind with CM.
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