Research to create a new guideline?

[The_Fixer]

This can vary widely, and, of course, from Sagas to sagas. Some will require you to do research, some won't at all.

I like the idea that some new guidelines require more or less work, but, IMO, this shouldn't require much.
For exemple, since the MuCo guideline to give a minor ability already exists, 5 points could be enough to create a guideline to grants a major ability.
OTOH, if you didn't have that basis, this could require 5 more points.

I like the idea of Bonisagi experimenting on spells randomly, with "discovery" results sometimes granting, among other things, a result that use a "new" guideline (and an insight), which prompts the boni to research and integrate this in hermetic magic.
This means that, in-game, researchers have an incentive to do both random and controlled experimentation.

But that's just me.

@BlackLiger

Would it be possible to duplicate this across the forms, so as to have one giving +15 to soak against terram (stone tipped arrows, swords, etc)?

I did a (verbose and badly edited) post about this some time ago. Never had the time to go back to it, but here it is:

Personnal Wards, Soak, Parry, blah blah blah

Ok, first, a disclaimer: I absolutely hate infinite wards/damage. The idea that a magus could cast a simple ReTe lvl 05 spell (base 2, +1 stone, +2 sun) upon himself and be utterly impervious to a theoretical +1000 Cr(Re)Te "Drop Mountain" ritual cast with a shitload of vis for +700 penetration does not sit well upon me. Likewise with the idea of "autowin" spells, which is why I liked resistance rolls to mentem control and all. IMO, it also diminishes the importance of Shield Grogs, in that,…