About recovery and CP cost of ER (Magical)

[Plane]

Does counteracting that -20% from older books mean that the combined benefits of "doesn't need rest to recover" and "doesn't cause penalties when low" is worth +20%?

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by Plane

Does counteracting that -20% from older books mean that the combined benefits of "doesn't need rest to recover" and "doesn't cause penalties when low" is worth +20%?

It's actually three benefits, not two, and one drawback:

1. Good: Doesn't increase the threshold (1/3fp) for being 'very tired'.
2. Good: separate recovery (it recovers in addition to normal fp)
3. Good: automatic recovery (it recovers regardless of actions taken)
4. Bad: doesn't increase the threshold (-1xFP) for automatic unconsciousness.

[Plane]

Perhaps another approach might be to define basic FP's 3 points in terms of those benefits (like threshold for automatic unconsciousness) and defined its regeneration as a "requires rest" form of Regeneration, ignoring the usual guidelines of not being able to buy low-level versions of Regeneration for FP Only.

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by Plane

ignoring the usual guidelines of not being able to buy low-level versions of Regeneration for FP Only.

The main problem with low level versions of regeneration for FP is that they're useless; 25 points for +1 fp/hour is not impressive.

[AlexanderHowl]

Especially considering that you could purchase ER 6 for 18 CP, which recharges 1 ER/10 minutes, so you get six times the benefit of that level of FP regeneration for less cost.