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AlexanderHowl · 12-04-2020, 01:35 PM

In settings where you have skill-based magic that is fueled by FP, magic should have some impact on the society.

For example, let us say that a mage in a low mana area decides to invest in Youth-20. With the help of 100 assistants, they are now capable of offering eternal youth to anyone who can pay the price. If we assume that the mage wants $100,000/month and the assistants want $5,000/month, they must generate a minimum of $6 million/month (we will increase it to $9.6 million per month to account for other costs). Since they are capable of casting the spell four times per hour, six hours a day, twenty days a month, they can charge $20,000 per casting. Anyone Status 3+ will likely be capable of coming up with that much money every year.

12-04-2020, 01:35 PM	#42
AlexanderHowl Join Date: Feb 2016	Re: Using street children in ceremonial magic [Magic/Thaumatology] In settings where you have skill-based magic that is fueled by FP, magic should have some impact on the society. For example, let us say that a mage in a low mana area decides to invest in Youth-20. With the help of 100 assistants, they are now capable of offering eternal youth to anyone who can pay the price. If we assume that the mage wants $100,000/month and the assistants want $5,000/month, they must generate a minimum of $6 million/month (we will increase it to $9.6 million per month to account for other costs). Since they are capable of casting the spell four times per hour, six hours a day, twenty days a month, they can charge $20,000 per casting. Anyone Status 3+ will likely be capable of coming up with that much money every year.