[PnP] And another thing...about perm magic item creation

[Scott Adams]

At 11:47 AM 5/8/09, you wrote:

>I start with a premise that it's way too easy to create magic items, and then characters start to look like christmas trees with magic ornaments hanging all over themselves.
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>So...maybe the Magic User making Permanent Magic items need to pay more for them somehow
something like the mana cost used to form the Perm Magic spell is temporarily deducted from the Mage’s Casting Ability.  The mage could recover the lost CA using the same rules as recovering Energy Level  In other words, it takes something out of the wizard (it takes a lot out of him) and keeps him from just becoming a magic item creation machine, and is slower than just recovering mana.
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>So...is this just plain heresy?  Unworkable?  tell me what you think.
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I agree far too many depend on magic items.  One big reason for this pnp adventure :) To see and test that dependency :) There to me is a difference between being able to shrug off the items at a whim and can't live without them.  Your way makes sense to me.  but its just a house rule I'd have to consider.  There is cost in high mana and the possibility of faliure destroying said item.  So there is a cost.  I've seen over 70 mana spent on one item and it fail in the end and the item destroyed.  That's a hefty cost for any mage.  So in that regard thre is a cost.  

What makes pnp so good is you come up with a rule you like it do it :)

As to Abys.  Gods are fickle.  If your in their favor or disfavor that all gives your final results.  Items have their own rules so its cast preset and used preset.  If a GM wants to give or not give Aby chances to items that's up to him.  Using Super Uber Staff of Doom could wipe out a army in one blow but if the god feels like your abusing the power and not giving him praise in the process well then zap goes the caster...

So its up to the GM. 

As to other posts too long will get to those eventually.