Is it necessary for my Companion to take the Venditor social status major virtue? I'd like for him to grow into the position, so to speak, not be one, and an apparently successful one that the Major Virtue suggests. It appears the Virtue comes from Mysteries Revised.
HoH: MC, and he doesn't have to take Venditor if you don't want...main advantage I see is the Academic Abilities and 50 xp. He can take Merchant (Free Social Status Virtue) or something else.
Okay, looks like we're making progress. I've got full covenant build points from everybody but ladyphoenix (of which I have 48, near as I can tell), darkwing (who is missing), and The Fixer (who is swamped irl, best I can recall). I only have personal build points from Arya and qcipher so far.
So, let's[size=200] shoot for Saturday next (14 April) to start play.[/size] I'll get a prologue up in the next day or so. If I can get everyone else's covenant and personal build points, as well as more Boons/Hooks/whatever for the covenant by the end of the week that would be awesome. Unless you want me to build the covenant.
Can we get the Exceptional Book boon?
Just got my covenants book back yesterday though I have idea on some of my points. I still have a lot to spend.
Thought I'd bring this discussion over here. While it is RAW, I certainly don't ever believe that was the intention of the authors to penalize someone who masters a spell. It is entirely counter-intuitive that someone with Magic Addiction who has put effort into mastering a spell is worse off than someone who hasn't mastered a spell. I stirred the pot over in Spell Mastery and Ritual thread in the main Ars Magica forum, because it is clearly an example of where the authors intended for it to be a stressful situation, but instead said stress die, much like my interpretation of the use of stress die in the Ritual Magic thread. I think it should be stressful situation for Magic Addiction, definitely not stress die.
Just fyi, I'll be out of town on the 14th, I might have some access to the net and be able to post a bit, but probably can't do much until maybe next Tuesday.
JeanMichelle has sent me a pm letting me know that he is leaving the forums entirely, so (unless he changes his mind) it looks like he's out.
Can we spread out his (and maybe Fixer's?) BPs so we could maybe get started soonish?
JM had already given his 291. If we don't here from Fixer by the weekend, we'll distribute his points.
IF JM isn't playing, I'd like a shot at spending his bps. I'm less than excited about his selections. I'm hard pressed to see the need for the quantities for items selected.
40bp 5x Magical ovens
18bp The enchanted Chef ReHe45
6bp Stone-Cutting knife ReTe15
12bp 2x Enchanted Porter ReTe15
38bp 5x The Vitalizer of Provisions CrAn19
40bp 5x The death of Vermin ReAn20
12bp 2x Abluere Magica (a small and a big one) ReHe15
80bp 5x Incendior hominis (Penetration 28)
That's 246 bps and no vis or books!
Uhhh, yeah. Totally, wholeheartedly seconded JL's sentiment.
Okay, looks like everybody gets 44 more Covenant Build Points to play with.
I'm removing three of the five Magical Ovens, the Enchanted Chef, the Stone Cutting Knife, both Enchanted Porters, all five Vitalizers of Provisions, all five Deaths of Vermin, and all five Incendior Hominis.
The Incendior Hominis I was torn on, as I was thinking they could be handy. On the other hand, using them would be a violation of the Pact of Crun Clach - they can't use it against grogs from another covenant, and even with 28 Penetration it would be ineffective. If they use it on anything else, that would be reckless and dangerous considering how much woodland is around the covenant.
Is the summary of bps in the Covenant thread accurate? There's a lot of unnamed L20Q11 books tere and some duplicate summae that look fishy. Also way more tractatus than I think we've bought?
Btw, could I spend some of my bp's improving those horrible apprentice summae JL bought (I was thinking to bump them to L10Q10)?
We aren't going to ever have apprentices?
Apprentices don't get to read. Every year they get Exposure for their three seasons of indentured servitude, plus one season of dedicated Teaching (which, as I understand it, must be actual teaching, of the +6 Quality for a single student variety).
The 240 apprenticeship exps does work out exactly to 15 years of 10+2+2+2 experience.
I believe this is correct...I've been copying in everything everyone's submitted as they posted, and gone back and made corrections if I see them posted. I'll double check them when I get a chance.
@Arya I realize the arithmetic works out, but I'm not sure why you think that apprentices don't get to read. IMS, if the apprentice character and the master character agree on a course load, I have no problem with the apprentice reading, if they are able to do so. Yes, that means apprentices who read books are more powerful than apprentices generated by RAW.
Also, those books are useful to Talia, and it's a reasonable proposition that some really crappy books were left behind by Duncan. And if we're going to go down the road of changing other player's build points, I think we'll end up getting into a fight! 
Yeah...I'm thinking "No." Sounds like a bad idea.