Covenant Design Discussion

silveroak suggested spending more points on the library. So, as an intellectual exercise, I tried to pare down the other stuff as best I could., Here's what I came up with:

Library ([strike]274[/strike] 312 points)
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  • Terram summa L23 Q12 (free from the Exceptional Book boon, on the Art that got the most votes)
    [*] Rest TBD

Vis Sources ([strike]125[/strike] 100 points)

  • 10 pawns/year in Vim (50 points) -- exact source to be determined
  • [strike]10[/strike] 5 pawns/year in Aquam ([strike]50[/strike] 25 points) -- from the spring
  • 5 pawns/year in Rego (25 points) -- from the dam of the aqueduct

Vis Stocks ([strike]2 points[/strike] 1 point)

  • [strike]10[/strike] 5 pawns of Vim vis (1 point)

Money (1 point)

  • 10 pounds of silver (1 point)

Specialists ([strike]42[/strike] 30 points)

  • 1 book binder [Skill 6] (6 points)
  • [strike]2 illuminators[/strike] 1 illuminator [Skill 6] (12 points)
  • [strike]2 scribes[/strike] 1 scribe [Skill 6] (12 points)
  • 1 ink maker [Skill 6] (6 points)
  • 1 [strike]percamenarius[/strike] parchment maker [Skill 6] (6 points)
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I'm not sure that we can squeeze any more out without becoming: (a) vis poor, or (b) unable to maintain the book copying business without raiding our income source.

This has us spending about 70% of our starting points on books. FYI, the unmodified build plan spends about 61% of starting points on books.

I think the real question is what we want to spend our time doing once the covenant is up and running:

  1. Trading for books
  2. Searching for vis sources
  3. Looking for new specialists to hire.