From:	Scott Wheelock iscottw@*****.nb.ca
Subject:	Spell Availability?
Date:	Tue, 03 Aug 1999 11:00:09 -0300

"And now, a Channel 6 editorial reply to Aristotle."
] Greetings & Salutations,
]
] I have recently begun preparation for a new campaign. Since I want the
] runners to be "green" I decided to maybe raise some of the limitations
] on starting equipment. The only current limitation that I know of is
] that the Availability must be 8 or under and/or the Power Rating must
] be no higher than 6. For most of the equipment this works out well,
] everything has either one or both of these ratings.
]
] I also set the limitation that no character may start with an essence
] lower than two.
]
] I went through and saw that (other than power ratings not being able to
] go higher than 6) there was no real limitation on spells. Why take
] invisibility when Improved Invisibility does the same thing only better?
]
] The only thought I have had is to make Mages take a spell in the order
] it is presented. (I.E. you must take Invisibility before you take
] Improved Invis.) However I am not sure that is entirely "fair" either.
]
] (NOTE: This would not be a constant, just a rule I would use for
] players creating characters for a "low level" game.)
]
] Any suggestions or comments?

Yup :) I've used a rule which has seemed to work fine so far. The
restrictions are, maximum one spell at Force 6, two at Five, the rest
have to be below. No more than three spells of Deadly Drain (or that
can be Deadly Drain, like Lighting). This lets the character have a
couple nasty spells, but not many at all (and with the max Attribute
rating of 5 I gave them, and the 80 Building Points, their Willpower
gonna suck too much to resist the killer spells anyway).
Anyway, I find the Drain Code is a good indication of the power of a
spell, so restrictions involving the Drain Codes might work for you.

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