RPM economy

[ericthered]

Originally Posted by Snaps

A gate that lasts a year, to any point in our galaxy costs less than 500 energy. This might sound like a lot, but it really isn't. Five decent casters, working together, with the best equipment, grimoires, etc., on a place of power can gather this no problem.

you say 'decent'. please note that not every setting that uses RPM does so at Monster hunters point levels. It is completely valid to have a setting where the best casters have skill 16 or less in their favored paths. 500 is a TON of energy.Yes, you can do it with 5 custom +10 grimoires and a +5 place of power. If you can get the grimoires (can the folks in the setting make custom grimoires?)

They'd also spread across dimensions:

A Gate to an alternate earth is only 10 energy. They'd have explored far more quantoms than Infinity Inc.

This is actually pretty expected. I'll note you'll need weight, duration, or both. creating a new gate is a greater effect. But at under 40, many mages will be able to handle it. If the worlds they are trying to travel to exist. You can't get to an alternate reality where you're king if it doesn't exist in your multiverse.

-They'll probably destroy themselves:

The way Working Together works just promotes disasters. You get your full skill roll for the gathering energy, then at the end the leader makes a roll to complete the ritual. What happens when one idiot gets 100 people together and tells them he's going to change the world. They'll quickly gather 1000 energy or more (probably a lot more) then the leader will critically fail the final roll (due to his -100 penalty). BOOM.

Thats actually not the way it works. RPM pg. 25 under working together states:

All rolls involved with the ritual are
at -1 for every caster past the first, however,

If you have 100 casters, everyone is rolling at -99 every time they try to gather energy. The optimal way to gather energy