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Originally Posted by hal
Some of the comments about mages, rarity, etc - keep ignoring the unintended consequences of the assumptions being put forth. In campaigns where the presumption is that mages are rare, and effectively walking gold mines in their own right, the issue becomes one of whether or not all mages, by virtue of what can be accomplished with certain spells, should be required to take Filthy rich as an advantage to compensate for those things that are possible with GURPS MAGIC as currently written.
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I think in answer to that I would say that most mages could not be bothered to keep track of that many valuable possessions. Also, you would have to take magic item rarity into account, since in that scenario, you would not expect the average mage to be dripping in magical items.