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Yeah, he's been the most popular criminal cult in my campaigns. His spell suit for burglary, cattle rustling, assault and armed robbery among other things. e: and piracy too.

The main use I can think for it is to make searching for spell effects easier.

No, RAW in the current edition state that anyone can donate POW for enchantments. I don't allow that in my campaign, since it leads to silly situations like stickpickers having sellable property worth of 2000L.

Yeah, that's how I've played it too, but in many Earth cultures slaves could buy their freedom, and if anyone can sell POW, slaves are walking banks.

Yeah, this was a big mistake imo. Now any poor person could elevate themselves from poverty by selling some POW. Every point is worth 5 years of a cottar's wage. And if every cottar and stickpicker is selling POW its price would fall. Here are the slave prices from RQG p. 411: Human Child 35 L Human Male, Unskilled 100 L Human Female, Unskilled 75 L Human, Educated 300 L Human, Skilled 200 L Why is a male slave's price only 100L, if an average male slave has 2000L worth of POW?

From last year:

Broadsword with a Bladesharp 2 matrix: Sword 50L + Bladesharp 2 150L (half price if from a cult) + Spell matrix POW cost 400L = 600L. For POW crystals I've used the cost of MP and Spirit binding enchantments. MP enchantment: 200L you get on average 5.5 MPs, so the L/MP would be 36.4L. But since the crystals have the dual use of spirit binding too, and normal spirits have two abilities, a spirit binding enchantment would cost at least 400L. But you can't use a crystal for both purposes at the same time. For smaller crystals that wouldn't be of use for spirits, I've just used the MP enchantment cost, and for larger ones the minimum cost would be 400L. There are no magic item shops around in my campaigns, except in some strange places like Pavis or Casino Town, but the characters can commission items between scenarios.

So does the countermagic oppose the biggest intensity of the spell?

I think that a better term would be antagonists.

That's even more nightmarish.

Weren't C. S. Lewis' orcs pigmen?

Yeah.

If you kill someone in a grisly fashion using Orlanth's magic it's pure and noble, but if you kill someone in a grisly fashion using sorcery it's evil.

Is it viewed to be more evil than killing people with Disruption spells?

Agreed. He has no weaknesses.

What's the Aeolian view of using that spell?

Ah, I was searching the Gamemaster Adventure book's crystal rules.

Iirc it was one per round. It's not in the rules, but it was cleared in some thread.

One of my favourite sets.

Sartar didn't kill anyone personally.

What makes you think that the mastermind behind that operation is really dead?

In one Finnish translation, iirc somewhere in the Genertela book, 'sable' was translated to that kind of sable.

Those are by Kalim Kadiev who has done some official art and the Prince of Sartar comic too.

So Colymar wine is an outlier.

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