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[Falcon777]

Yeah, he's not an archmaster. He's the only known master to survive a threshold seeking without dying to the abyss and also not becoming an archmaster. This is known. Check the story The Unmurdered Man in the Fallen Anthology.

[Falcon777]

When you add into the fact that many consiliums have less than 100 mages, it is perfectly possible for any given mage to have met most of the others. This alone can make conflict more personal instead of order based.
Granted you don't have to have your world with that level of mage population, but it's still something to think about.

[Falcon777]

Um, hello? There's a very good reason why there's a dice penalty. If the dice penalty causes the spell to only have a chance die then there's a possibility of a dramatic failure, which has further mechanical consequences. If you're wondering why there's a dice penalty, there it is.

Edit: Sorry, I don't mean to be insulting.

[Falcon777]

I've been giving more thought to the spell that I contributed to this (an updated version of 1e's Suspension spell), and I realized that I really shouldn't have added in the key to bypass the effect. Keys are more appropriate for spells that deal with, as the book describes (yes yes, I know), liminal spaces. Suspension definitely does not in either edition.

[Falcon777]

Well, something to take into consideration is that anyone with a gnosis of 5 or above is capable of being a master, though they aren't necessarily one. If you go with an average of 100 mages per city (approx 50 for the Pentacle and 50 for the Seers (something on the scale of Dave B's numbers)), you should have approximately 2 masters in your consilium. So that means at least 2 mages will have a gnosis of 5 or higher. Obviously you could alter these numbers, say by increasing how many mages are in your average consilium or by increasing the average gnosis of mages.

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