Trogdor:
I'm torn right now as far as making up a companion because I can't see any logical reason to make anything but a magical companion.
A regular companion gets 10 Virtues (balanced out with 10 Flaws), and 360 xp in Abilities (assuming an age of 26). Obviously an older companion will have more xp in Abilities, though I doubt they'd go above 450 xp (assuming a maximum age of a companion being 32).
Compare that to a magical companion. A magical companion gets 10 Virtues (balanced out with 10 Flaws) and 360 xp in Abilities, plus and more
Yes, there's the limitation of learning. But as we've seen, by buying down the companion's Might (granting even more Qualities), it's possible, through Might legerdemain, to minimize that limitation as well.
So I'm left with a real quandary here. Why would I pick anything but a magical companion? I can see that the decision might be hard if I had a concept that I was really keen on that precluded that. But with all of the options open to me, it's just as easy to pick an concept that's a magical companion as not.
I don't know if we want our covenant littered with magical companions. But as I said, I can't see any logical reason not to pick a magical concept for my companion.
Thoughts?
When I put Realms of Power: Magic on the approved-for-use list, I had intended it to be for familiars (and magical creatures) only, and thought I had put that clarification on there. Turns out it was on the Stonehenge wiki. But I will be adding it to this saga's Chargen page, too. Making a magical human companion is too easy to make something ROP, which I don't want to go through again.