To what extent does RPM encourage/facilitate/prevent generalist casters?

[Terwin]

Originally Posted by lexington

But the RPM caster only has the equivalent of DX15 if they intentionally do that. There are no mandatory advantages that turn you into a generalist. A default of -6 is very steep unless you have most casters running around with Thaumatology above 20.

Even with a Thaumatology of 30+, the path defaults are still 12, so any Thaumatology above 18 only increases the path caps, not the default.

I also asked earlier about Buying up from Default, and was told that for all purposes, the max Thaumatology default is 12, so you are not going to get all path skills at 15+ for only 1 point each unless you have an IQ 18+

(Oddly enough, the optimal number of points to spend on path skills for a generalist does seem to be 1 point each, as anything more would cost at least as much as +1 IQ)