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Old 12-21-2018, 07:25 PM   #676
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Default Re: Five Earths, All in a Row

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Originally Posted by maximara View Post
AFAIU this is not how the cost of advantages in GURPS are supposed to be calculated. 1e Supers tried this and it broke the whole universal part of the game.

Magery 0 is 5 points regardless of the world being normal or high mana. Heck based on the progression 1:100 people have Magery 0 on Merlin-1 and in the high mana areas it doesn't matter.
I had trouble figuring out how to phrase a search to find the quote I was looking for, and eventually had to resort to doing a site-specific search on Google. This thread seems to be the best one, though I still can't find the quote that I recall reading that confirmed that it's not just a first-edition thing (though Kromm's post on the first page certainly implies it very strongly).
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