From:	Aristotle antithesis@**********.com
Subject:	Magical SOTA?
Date:	Wed, 4 Oct 2000 19:10:13 -0400

<Phil Smith> ...Yeah, but none of the magic books
(or very few) said "this is new; it wasn't there
before." As Gurth was saying before; they don't
attribute a lot to the magical SOTA. The way I
read it is that the main rulebook outlines what
most magic users are doing. The other magic
rulebooks tell us what the wierd ones are up to...
</Phil Smith>

<Aristotle> ...Now see.. I read it the other way
myself. I saw the things in the various magic
books as advances in magic above and beyond the
stuff in the core book. Which would make them SOTA.
</Aristotle>

<Lars> ...So does that mean that you have a magical
SOTA that goes up and down?

SR1: Normal level
GR1: Advance in Magical SOTA
SR2: Decline in Magical SOTA, but still a bit above SR1 (since adepts
arethere)
GR2: Advance in Magical SOTA
Awakening: Advance in Magical SOTA
SR3: Decline in Magical SOTA (Adepts, but no ritual Sorcery)
MItS: Advance in Magical SOTA
</Lars>


Okay I see what you are saying.. but wasn't the assumption always that a
new Edition of the core rules does not make the source books for the
previous version obsolete. I know it was put in print in SR3, but it only
makes sense that it was always like that... so then it runs like this.

SR1: The Mana rises and magic is possible.
GR1: Advances in magical SOTA
SR2: Some advances in magic, and the rules for it. SOTA still going up.
GR2: GR1 NOW obsolete, things found within are NOW updated. hence SOTA.
Awakenings: SOTA going up even further.
SR3: Some minor SOTA advancements. GR2 and Awakenings not obsolete.
MItS: Both Awakenings and GR2 now obsolete. Things found in those books
have NOW been affected by SOTA.


Just another 0.02¥,
Travis "Aristotle" Heldibridle

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