Custom Rules / Decisions
We operate with a common law type system where we look at previous applications of law as the basis for future rulings, these are the collected forms of that.
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Custom Mechanics
Player to Player Transactions
All items sold to another player must be book price or more. P91-92
All items traded with another player should have similar power bands, often measured in terms of silver piece creation costs within ~20% variance.
Magical sales should be restricted as follows
+1/Trivial to level 1-3
+2/Minor To levels 4-6
+3/Major to levels 6+
Magical items found by adventuring parties can go beyond this ruling, as the party is discovering an item in play, not simply aquiring it.
Magical items found by the party can be sold to the caravan, and proceeds divided. They can also be bought by one character, less their portion from the party.
You may not give items to another player without GM approval. This breaks the power curve and may lessen the enjoyment of going up, or another player who could not get access may feel left out.
If an item is out of your price range, consider requesting a treasure hunting mission in a dungeon somewhere.
Player to Player learning of Spells
Spell casters can learn spells from found scrolls or grimoires, NPC mages, or from other player character casters. All spell casters can learn High Magic spells, and specialist casters can learn New Magic spells of their discipline. A character cannot learn a spell greater than the max spell level for their current character level.
It takes one week of study per level of the learned spell, minus one week per level of their Magic skill to a minimum of one day, during which both characters cannot take any other downtime activities. If either the teacher or the pupil needs to pause this learning time to adventure or work on other projects, no progress will be lost, and when they get back to work the study time will continue to pass as normal. If the teaching character becomes unable or unwilling to continue teaching the spell, the caster who wants to learn will need to start completely over with a new teacher.
Each time a character learns a spell from another player character, the learner must spend one renown per level of the spell they are learning. This renown does not go to the teacher, it is simply spent to represent the social capital within the Caravan that it takes to convince a spell caster to share their secrets. No player character is compelled, however, to share their knowledge with another character - it is entirely up to them what it would take to convince them to trust another spell caster with their knowledge.
Decisions Affecting Gameplay
Decisions Affecting Gameplay
Vital Furance - Does the Player Have Frailty?
https://discord.com/channels/1085662550785527999/1112483117723299980
To the immediate question: I agree it negates frailty, and that lines up. As this is a healer's magic Art, and not a Foci.p81
For ten minutes you are helpless as you are at zero hitpoints until you get the Vital Furnace HP or are healed. While in the ten-minute window from stabilization to the healing time ten minutes later, I still consider the character mortally wounded/frail and any additional damage during that period will kill the character.
The automatic stabilization I only consider to be an auto-success of the check, not an instant "better-ness"
Sources:
[A character healed by any amount of magical healing automatically loses any Mortally Wounded or Frail qualities and can immediately rise.]p48
[A creature reduced to zero hit points is dead or dying...Mortally Wounded.]p48
[They’ll die instantly if they take more damage.] p48
To the immediate question: I agree it negates frailty, and that lines up. As this is a healer's magic Art, and not a Foci.p81
For ten minutes you are helpless as you are at zero hitpoints until you get the Vital Furnace HP or are healed. While in the ten-minute window from stabilization to the healing time ten minutes later, I still consider the character mortally wounded/frail and any additional damage during that period will kill the character.
The automatic stabilization I only consider to be an auto-success of the check, not an instant "better-ness"
Sources:
[A character healed by any amount of magical healing automatically loses any Mortally Wounded or Frail qualities and can immediately rise.]p48
[A creature reduced to zero hit points is dead or dying...Mortally Wounded.]p48
[They’ll die instantly if they take more damage.] p48
Extirpate Arcana does not Counterspell
https://discord.com/channels/1085662550785527999/1171594951583338517/1196646839794012211
https://www.reddit.com/r/WWN/s/6Lx0KN3buz
The wording of Extirpate Arcana left a vague opening to attempt to hold the spell as utilize it as a counterspell. The ruling closes that loophole by directly stating that the Extirpate Arcana is a dispelling magical spell used after another is cast, not as a reaction to prevent a spell.
https://www.reddit.com/r/WWN/s/6Lx0KN3buz
The wording of Extirpate Arcana left a vague opening to attempt to hold the spell as utilize it as a counterspell. The ruling closes that loophole by directly stating that the Extirpate Arcana is a dispelling magical spell used after another is cast, not as a reaction to prevent a spell.
Minions/Familiars after a Mage dies / incapacitated
https://discord.com/channels/1085662550785527999/1120129182916157440/1127331832057315430
The owner loses its control over minions if no longer alive in a functional way. But they do not cease to exist. If the owner returns in the same scene, he regains control without the need of additional spell casting. More importantly, they can and will turn on living party members.
Applied again to familiars in a different instance: https://discord.com/channels/1085662550785527999/1145500669005008902/1149480054145957939
The owner loses its control over minions if no longer alive in a functional way. But they do not cease to exist. If the owner returns in the same scene, he regains control without the need of additional spell casting. More importantly, they can and will turn on living party members.
Applied again to familiars in a different instance: https://discord.com/channels/1085662550785527999/1145500669005008902/1149480054145957939
Power: Familiars/undead vs Companions/Henchmen
Based on two rulings: https://discord.com/channels/1085662550785527999/1119703473613721770
https://discord.com/channels/1085662550785527999/1129796539460624444
When reviewing a familiar/undead's capability we do not want them to become more powerful than NPC henchmen a PC can lead. As a result, Unique gifts, foci, or other methods of buffing a creature who is compelled to act are not to exceed RAW style AC/Attacks etc. Henchmen or hirings should be pound-for-pound more capable than familiars/undead.
https://discord.com/channels/1085662550785527999/1129796539460624444
When reviewing a familiar/undead's capability we do not want them to become more powerful than NPC henchmen a PC can lead. As a result, Unique gifts, foci, or other methods of buffing a creature who is compelled to act are not to exceed RAW style AC/Attacks etc. Henchmen or hirings should be pound-for-pound more capable than familiars/undead.
Auto-success/failure of Magic
https://discord.com/channels/1085662550785527999/1153018818776535152/1153018818776535152The ruling that stands is that magic is always a situational-based decision by the GM, and cannot always be an auto success, or an auto rejection.
An additional opinion penned by DanB that goes into good detail:
"It is entirely within the rights of the GM to say "this happens this way" or "this doesn't happen this way" in regards to magic being cast. The core of the OSR GM-player social contract is that players will allow for the fact that the GM does not have to play by the same rules as the players and that the GM will not take away cool story beats from the players. If a spell should do something, and the result would be cool and fun and interesting for the players, the GM should allow it to happen even if it means their plans totally get womped. On the other hand, if the GM wants to say "there is a working in play here that no contemporary magician can comprehend that keeps this one building from burning down" then that's fine if the result is that the story that result is better than just burning down the tavern."
An additional opinion penned by DanB that goes into good detail:
"It is entirely within the rights of the GM to say "this happens this way" or "this doesn't happen this way" in regards to magic being cast. The core of the OSR GM-player social contract is that players will allow for the fact that the GM does not have to play by the same rules as the players and that the GM will not take away cool story beats from the players. If a spell should do something, and the result would be cool and fun and interesting for the players, the GM should allow it to happen even if it means their plans totally get womped. On the other hand, if the GM wants to say "there is a working in play here that no contemporary magician can comprehend that keeps this one building from burning down" then that's fine if the result is that the story that result is better than just burning down the tavern."
Value of looted Spellbooks / Grimoires
https://discord.com/channels/1085662550785527999/1160322077908283412/1160348683548774511
The value of a looted grimoire is equivalent to a calyx containing the spells written inside the grimoire. A Mage's personal grimoire cannot be sold in this way. A grimoire can be disassembled or assembled to be sold as parts or two as a single object.
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