[UA] Master Adepts vs. New Adepts Formula Spells

[Nick Wedig]

>>Greg & John: What was the original rational for not keeping track of
>>formulas on character sheets and thus allowing the entire school to be
>>available? As the system is, there really is no difference between any two
>>practitioners of any school.  In a combat or challenge, it's going to come
>>down to who has the charges and rolls the cherries, not the training.  Why
>>is that so?

In my mind it's like this:  for any skill, a person must be able to do certain tasks in order to be able to say he has that skill.  A computer programmer has to know how to code in one or more languages, and several other tasks (error checking, compiling, whatever) before he can be called a computer programmer.  The programmer might also know how to do some other things, but these are flourishes on his basic skill.  Ritual spells are the basics of the school, and if you can't do them you can't be said to have the school.  Random magick is for the individual flourishes people bring to the school.

Maybe an analogy to chess:  Ritual spells are like knowing how to move each piece and some basic strategy (guard the king).  Random magick is somewhat more complicated groups of moves and strategies (or maybe this doesn't hold and it only appears since I'm reading up on chess playing computers).

Mr. Teapot
chess playing computer

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