Magery

[Pragmatic]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

I don't understand what you mean by "a skill cap only" Magery is not a skill cap.

In RPM, a place where Magery serves to act as an energy reserve and a skill cap, you can have any skill level you want...

But your maximum effective skill is Int + Magery.

So if you put in the points to have skill 14, but your Int + Magery is 13, you're going to cast the spell as if it was 13. You'd have to increase your Int (20 pts) or your Magery (unknown, for this limited a version; consensus seems to be 5 pts) to get your total up to 14, to fully use the spell skill level.

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OP: Have you checked Thaumatology yet? Sounds like one of the variants they'd include in there...

[GodBeastX]

IT's also optional rule from Thaumatology.

[kirbwarrior]

I'd just go with a skill cap of [1] per level (assuming it starts at 10). But, since we don't want everyone who wants to be a mage to start with this at 5-10 levels (unless that is intentional), then I'd add more onto it to bring the cost to [5] or [10]. Mind, an UB of [4] is a fine way to do it if magic is supposed to be uncommon.

[Peter Knutsen]

Originally Posted by Nereidalbel

If Magery provides no skill bonuses, no ER, and only functions as part of your skill cap on spells, 5 is fair. That's a leveled Perk with 4/lvl UB attached.

Yes, it's a 1 CP levelled Perk, plus possibly an UB worth from 1 to 4 CP per level. Possibly the first few levels have a small UB and levels after that a large UB, but it would be unGURPSy to have it be more complex than that, e.g. 1 CP for first level, 2 total for 2nd, 3 for 3rd, 4 for 4th, and so forth. Rather, just set a cut-off, e.g. so that the first 5 levels of Magery are 2 CP each, and additional levels are 5 CP each with no maximum.