Covenant Discussion

I've noticed that some areas are over-covered in the build points (mostly in the library), so I thought I would post a second list of the resources, but consolidated by type.

Vis sources:

Laboratories:

  • Minor Virtue "Extensive Stores" (+2 Safety) on the shared lab.

Library:

  • Art Summae:[list]
    [*]Creo summa (L20Q11) The Fundaments of Creation (31 bp)
  • Intellego summa (L9Q11) Investigating the World (20 bp)
  • Rego summa (L18Q12) Understanding Movement and Stillness (30 bp)
  • Animal summa (L15Q11) The Beast Within (26 bp)
  • Auram summa (L15Q12) World's Breath (27 bp)
  • Corpus summa (L20Q11) The Human Body (31 bp)
  • Mentem summa (L15Q10) On Ghosts and Those Left Behind (25 bp)
  • Terram summa (L15Q10) Uncovering the Earth’s Bones (25 bp)
  • Terram summa (L23Q8) The Chains of Solidity (31 bp) -- Petronius private resource
  • Vim summa (L12Q10) The Manipulations of Mystical Forces (22 bp)
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    ]Arts Tractatus:
  • Creo tractatus (Q10x2) (20 bp)
  • Intellego tractatus (Q11) (11 bp)
  • Perdo tractatus (Q11) (11 bp)
  • Rego tractatus (Q10) On Displacement (10 bp)
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    [
    ]Abilities Summae:
  • Enigmatic Wisdom summa (L5Q8) Circles in Infinity (23 bp) -- Aedituus private resource
  • (High) German summa (L4Q8) (20 bp)
  • Magic Lore summa (L5Q8) A Compendium of Magical Beasts, Spirits and Sites (23 bp)
  • Magic Theory summa (L8Q11) Fundamental Advances in Magic (35 bp)
  • Penetration summa (L5Q11) Ultor ("The Avenger") (26 bp) from HoH:S p.9
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    [
    ]Abilities Tractatus:
  • Artes Liberales tractatus (Q10x2) (20 bp)
  • Dominion Lore tractatus (Q11) Angels in the Architecture (11 bp) -- Aedituus private resource
  • Enigmatic Wisdom tractatus (Q10) On Questioning (10 bp)
  • Finesse tractatus (Q10) On the Interactions between Forms and Techniques, Volume 2 (10 bp)
  • Magic Theory tractatus (Q10x5) (50 bp)
  • Magic Theory tractatus (Q10) On the Interactions between Forms and Techniques, Volume 1 (10 bp)
  • Order of Hermes Lore tractatus (Q8) An Early History of the Order of Hermes (8 bp)
  • Penetration tractatus (Q10) On the Interactions between Forms and Techniques, Volume 3 (10 bp)
  • Philosophiae tractatus (Q10x2) (20 bp)
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    ]Lab Texts:
  • Lab texts for 475 levels of spells (95 bp)
  • Lab texts for 50 levels of spells (10 bp) -- Aedituus private resource
  • Lab texts for 95 levels of spells (19 bp) -- Petronius private resource
  • Lab texts for 235 levels of spells (47 bp) -- Hippocrates private resource
  • Lab text for 74 levels of enchanted item (15 bp)
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    Enchanted Items:
  • Wooden candlestick with Lamp without Flame (Base 4, +1 Concentration, +5 item maintains concentration = Level 10 effect) (4 bp) -- Aedituus private resource

Specialists:

Money: 100 pounds.

One thing I've noticed is that for Magic Theory, we have a L8Q11 summa + [strike]8 different[/strike] 6 different Q10 tractatus (EDIT: 2 of the Magic Theory tractatus were replaced by 1 Finesse and 1 Penetration). That seems like a lot to me. I would suggest replacing some of those tractatus (and/or lowering the level of the summa) to add some different Arcane Abilities like Code of Hermes, Faerie Lore, Finesse, Infernal Lore, Parma Magica* or Penetration.
[size=85]* I'm not a big fan of Parma Magica books, for secrecy reasons, but depending on how this is treated here it may be appropriate.[/size]

We also have a duplication between a private and shared resource regarding Terram. I may change the private resource for something else since this impacts only my magus.

We have some very high-level summae. Covenants (p.20) describes the "Exceptional Book" Major External Relations Boon as a Art book with a Level+Quality of 35, with a max Level of 20. We have 4 different books with a Level+Quality of 30 or more. Does this make sense for a Spring covenant?

We have 8 different vis sources, many of them fairly small. Do we want to consolidate some of them into stronger sources? For example, the Ignem source (Gemlight) could changed to Imaginem and merged with the other Imaginem source for a total strength of 7 pawns a year. It all depends on how many sources are appropriate. Right now we have 32 pawns per year for 4 to 6 magi (2 have not specified their build points). That makes for 5 to 8 pawns per year per magus, before the Aegis and other covenant needs.