[DF] Lich PCs in DF - Oswald the Violet

[Tymathee]

Originally Posted by Celjabba

I wouldn't allow those.

The "one style only" perk ER is costed assuming you respect the magic perk purchase restrictions !
If you waive this, you no longer qualify for the discounted price, imho.

So, ER(Black Magic, -40%; abilities only, -10%) [1.5/point] instead.

As for Magery, Can’t Use External Energy is -15% per Thaumathology p23, not -80%.
Not being able to burn hp is perhaps worth an additional -5% to -10%.

From a fluff point, its valid for Evil to care less how skilled you are at magic, it just wants someone who'd be incentivized by deeper energy stores to commit more acts of great evil. LER (BM) is balanced around the substituted -40% that's in it, in place of One Style Only. It might be -40% in limitations, but the implications ripple out in a way that goes beyond just what being limited to a single magical style entails.

There's the fact that Paut is something you can likely buy at any Ye Olde Magic Shoppe in Town, a guaranteed Power Item (Wizards get this right at character creation!) you can have right from the start that you can top off any time you stop at Town... external sources for energy are highly ubiquitous to DF. The rules for Can't Use External Energy accommodate these kinds of considerations when it comes to increasing the value of the modifier. You're argument against the -80% on Magery would make more sense if it took into consideration the genre assumptions of DF.