[RPM] Minor Effects Only?

[JMason]

So, one of the future game projects that I've been playing around with involves magic that works the way that some real world practitioners of occult and magick claim it does: it works (assuming you did the ritual correctly, and focused your belief into it), but will manifest through seemingly mundane ways.

So if you cast a spell to gain wealth, an old buddy that owes you cash might bump into you a few days later... or something like that.

I was thinking the best way to model this would be the RPM system without the "major effects".

Thoughts? How much of a discount should this give?

[Andreas]

The discount should probably be small. Greater effects come with a very severe cost penalty, so using lesser effects seems to be a better solution for most problems anyway. Also, RPM without greater effects is not without advantages. It can make critical failures much less dangerous (the critical failure of a 20 energy ritual can with greater effects cause enough damage to instantly kill an average person or give you Fanaticism(summon demons) for half an hour without a resistance roll). A -10% limitation on Magery might be reasonable.

[lvalero]

No discount. It is a rule of the world. Everybody who can cast magic can only cast minor effects.

For the very few people who can "bypass" this "world rule" (if any) I would charge a large Inusual Background. For example Gods, Archidevils and Things the Man Shouldn't Know.