5 ### Magister-in-Artibus
7 For the purposes of the Magister-in-Artibus virtue other scholars
8 consider the Schola to be conspicuously wealthy enough that this will
9 rub off on members and they only need to teach for one season; unless
10 they are conspicuously poor (the Poor flaw).
12 This doesn't recuse non-Wealthy companions from needing to earn their
13 keep in whatever manner is approopriate, but the second season a year
14 could, for instance, be a covenant role less easily visible to
19 I can't remember which splat it was, but one of them suggests that it
20 might be possible with mundane Animal Training to train horses to
21 accept a normally gifted rider. If this was true then all magi would
24 **Houserule:** you *can* train the horse to be OK with a Gifted magi
25 as passenger in a cart or wagon provided they have a driver/handler
26 who is not Gifted, or otherwise **Inoffensive to Animals**.
28 If you want to ride a horse with the normal gift, then you'll either
29 need to use spells (which may warp the horse, just saying) or tame a
32 #### The Gift and Teaching
34 Magi with the normal Gift are at -3 for teaching, whether they're the
35 teacher or the student. This is going to be a bit of a pain if they
36 want to interact with the university. This penalty can be removed if
37 they extend their Parma to cover their teacher or students, but that
38 can only be done with consent (and note that the maga is also at -3 to
39 convincing the other party), which is going to require some finesse to
40 avoid revealing the covenant's secrets.
42 If the maga is unobtrusive and in the midst of a large group of people
43 then the -3 is ignored; so if she's going to popular lectures then
44 she'll be OK; although she will probably get a bit of suspicion of
45 being a false student (which is in some senses true anyway); but
46 that's no help if she's looking for instruction in Demotic Egyptian.
50 The Gentle Gift does not count as a Major Hermetic Virtue for the
51 purposes of the restrictions on Virtues.
54 ## Points of Inhabitants
56 I'm using this slightly mashed up chart to replace the one on p63 of
57 *Covenants* to represent the two-tier structure of the Covenant. PCs
58 should be free to argue that they ought to be in a different band
59 *in-character*. Note that for companions this only covers ones
60 supported by the covenant, companions of independant means get LCM as
63 [[!table file="Rules/points.dsv"]]
67 Academics count towards this cost like scribes and magi.
72 If, after rolling a sequence of 1s, a 2 is rolled it may be
73 re-rolled. But only once; if you get another 2 that's fate.
77 The upper and lower boundaries of a boundary spell exist and are
78 something appropriate - e.g. a triangle might be a pyramid, a circle
79 might be a dome or a sphere.
83 The ArM4 book *Kaballah* had a sidebar on group learning that was
84 overly powerful. The ArM5 book *Realms of Power: Divine* had one that
85 was overly weak -- you'd never actually want to do it. The Revised
86 Edition of that book no-longer has such a sidebar. These rules
87 attempt to find a middle ground. Comments welcome.
89 A group of people may study the same text and discuss it together.
90 The maximum size of the group is limited to twice the Communication
91 score of the highest member; excepting that it is always permissable
92 for two people to study together.
94 Each member calculates an Advancement Total normally; including
95 bonuses and maluses relating to both studying from texts and learning
98 The totals for each member are summed, the communication of each
99 member is added, and if any member has the Good Teacher virtue then
100 that is added (+5) at most once. This grand total is then divided by
101 (the number of participants + 1) and rounded up to produce the new
104 In addition each member may take an additional two points of exposure
105 experience in an appropriate skill related to the discussion (likely
106 to be one of Artes Liberales, Philosophiae, Theology, Magic Theory, or
107 an appropriate Language).
111 Summae may be discussed only if all of the members are eligible to
112 discuss the summa in question.
116 Tractatus may only be learned from once, whether through reading or
121 Seperately to the individual tractartus, a florigelium may be
122 discussed as if it were a summa with a level equal to the number of
123 included tractatus and a quality equal to sum the qualities of the two
128 The maximum size of a group for learning Hermetic Arts is two.
129 Hermetic Arts can be group studied from vis, however this requires a
130 quantity of vis for each maga.
135 Adventure XP can be assimilated in the *same* or *next* season as the
140 NPCs generally get 15 xp a year:
142 * 2 Seasons of Exposure (2 each)
143 * 1 Season of Practice (4)
144 * 1 Season of Teaching/Study/Training (usually 7)
146 If better quality training is available then they might get more than that!
149 ## Multiple Casting Mastery Ability
151 Each time you take this ability you can cast an additional copy of the
152 spell. *Not* that one copy allows you to cast Mastery copies of the
155 # Notes on changes from ArM4 to ArM5
158 Note that the old loophole of having multiple magi work together to
159 open an apprentice's arts has been removed.
163 A fairly well hidden ArM5 change is that spell mastery has been
164 improved, and one side effect of this is that spell masteries can be
165 learned and taught in all the same ways that any other Ability can.
170 The changes to book writing in *Covenants* are (a) inconsistent (b) make
171 books on magic harder to write than books on non-magic topics (c) make the
172 canonically listed books not fit right any more; and the
173 expensive resonant stuff is probably to expensive except for really good
174 books. Also the Lecture Commentry rules from A&A aren't compatable.
175 So I have revised the maximum Qualities:
179 Author's Communication + 3 + (up to 3 from skilled artisans) + virtues + (bonus for having a lower level than you could write)
183 Author's Communication + 3 + (up to 3 from skilled artisans) + virtues
187 Add one to the quality
191 First Author's Communication + Second Author's Communication + (up to 3 from skilled artisans)
195 Add one or two to the quality as described on Covenants p90
199 Add one to the quality as described on Covenants p91
201 ### Lecture Commentries
203 Teacher's Communication + (Scribe's Profession ÷ 2) - 3
205 ### Edited Lecture Commentaries
207 Teacher's Communication + (Scribe's Profession ÷ 2) - 2 + (up to 2 for skilled binder/illuminator) + virtues