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Originally Posted by johndallman
If so, the Traditions have no major advantage over the existing magicians of Yrth.
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They have greater flexibility given that it's an improvisational magic system. That would include the ability to create spell effects on the fly that no mage in Yrth has discovered. It would also be a good idea to not allow regular magicians to abandon rituals with high skills and to not impose Magery-based limits on Ritual Magic. The result is a kind of magic which is potentially much more powerful and always more flexible. But then you make it threshold-based to represent the power of Paradox.
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Originally Posted by davidtmoore
- The Ascension War is essentially reversed. The magical praxes of the Order of Hermes and the Celestial Chorus are so accepted by the masses that a mage can wave a wand and throw a fireball and still qualify as coincidental. The downside is that traditional mages are very tied down to rotes and foci; they free themselves of foci more gradually, and are at a penalty to cast spontaneous magic.
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Given the lack of actual clerical magic in canonical Yrth, it's more likely to be Hermes and Verbena, with the Chorus on the skids with the technomancers.