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From: "Gurth" <gurth@******.nl>
Subject: Re: Metamagic (again! :)
Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 11:11:32 +0100
Paolo Falco said on 23:03/15 May 96...

> More seriously, I wondered if any of you could explain me a thing about
> Metamagic... Actually, in all of the grimoire II, FASA seems to hint that
> once you are an initaite, you can access all 6 skils (centering, quickening,
> etc.)... Is this correct? Me and my mage have reached the conclusion that it
> would be muchbetter and nicer if each grade of initiation granted you only
> one kind of metamagic... Since *he* proposed that, I did absolutely no
> object... :) However, some friend of mine told me that this is the ruling he
> is using too... So? What is the CORRECT rule? And if ours is an house rule,
> what do you think about it?

You get all metamagic abilities at once, as soon as you reach grade 0. I
don't like this myself, so what I do is let the player choose an ability
every time the character gains a grade. Makes things a bit more
interesting, IMHO.

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