[UA] House Rule

[Zach Johnson]

I thought it even said something to that effect in the minor/sig/major
unnatural phenomenon section of the book, at least with regards to major
charges.  If they break taboo with so many minor or sig charges, then an
appropriately powered and flavor unnatural phenonmenon manifests.  

A 'nice' way to bleed off charges would be to treat it like a 'ring of
wishes'.  That is, whenever the player or character wishes for something,
and if it falls into the domain of whatever flavor of adept they're
playing, then treat it like a random magick effect, only informing them
the next time they consciously cast a spell that they are down that many
charges.

A simple and cruel way to whittle down their account would be to make them
pay the cost of a spell even when they fail their roll.

Z

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 wild at park.net wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 23:04:35 +0800, Simon Jones wrote
> 
> > 
> > Well, the problem here is that I think some charging
> > structures lend
> > themselves to charge hoarding on purpose, to make up for
> the
> > fact it's
> > fairly slow to get or very hard to acquire charges for
> them.
> 
> I guess this is an issue from game to game, depending on how
> players approach magic.
> 
> One solution I considered is that when you break taboo,
> charges don't just drain away - the magic has to go
> somewhere.  They go off. (Like bullets, rather than like
> milk.)
> 
> Given that you can in many cases be forced to break taboo,
> or can have taboo broken for you, carrying around lots of
> charges turns into a game of russian roulette.  
> 
> John
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