How to create a High Mana "Place of Power" HQ

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Originally Posted by JulianLW

Would +5 to RPM rolls be the equivalent of raising the mana level in standard magic by a level, i.e. from low mana to normal mana or from normal to high?

That's the EFFECT of raising it per Thaumatology's Continuous Mana rules.

If this costs 5 points instead of the usual 50, you'd need to have -90% or more limitations to justify it.

Breaking that into +1 levels is just using the ⅕ option which is 10/level base cost.

One place I would start is by taking Environmental: Mana -10% : this would prevent you from raising No Mana higher. You'd need SOME mana to start with.

This is how Magical Styles 27's "Mana Compensation" perk works. Offsetting a -1 penalty is basically +1, but that +1 doesn't help in No Mana.

This only sets precedent for a perk making this possible for an entire "style" which is roughly "One College". This is what "Aspected Mana Enhancer" does.

"cheaper than the 10 points per +1 for partial Mana Enhancer (Thaumatology, p. 60) for two reasons.
First, it’s of no benefit if there’s no mana.
Second, it doesn’t give a net bonus in normal or better mana.

IMO it's actually 3, they forgot the 'effectively one college' limitation due to the perk requiring specialization by style.

One College is only -40% so Environmental -10% only brings it down to -50%.

"Doesn't give a net bonus" is a limitation I guess must be worth -40 or more (usually you need to go well beyond -90 to get an effective -90% per PU8 "beyond the limit" .. seen in Psionic Powers perks) but I'm not sure how much.

Maybe this is technically legal by using the 1/2 price formula for "Potential Advantages"? That gives you "works half the time" and ignores standard -80% caps, so you could do that to reduce a 10-point ability that's 2 due to -80% down to just a perk. But that would mean still needing to find -30% to justify it.

In shadowjack's case is it possible "rituals only" is worth more points than "one college only" ?

"Ceremonial Only" isn't exactly worth that much more...

Any other limitations we can float from Magery to Mana Enhancer? Maybe throw some "Preparation Required" in there? No big loss since you're spending lots of time on rituals anyway.

Prep required on Mana Enhancer is sort of like free switchable though so that might be munchkin.