I have mine set to send me an email only when there's a PM, otherwise I'd be flooded with emails. I just refresh the page now and then.
The smith thing is fine for now, but truthfully he'd rather cast the spell than have a mundane work on it. His Talisman should be able to withstand a botch or two, the spearhead maybe not, but that's a lot more replaceable.
I like being flooded with emails!
If you expect to switch out spear tips a lot, I'd say you probably need to invent a spell. Since your duties put you close to home for a while, if you do get involved in combat, you can do the smith thing, or take your chances with a spont spell (and you have to not botch twice).
That's fine. Creating the spell is on his to do list, he carries extra spear heads anyway, of different metals depending on his needs.
Can we get a Library sticky thread with all of our books, mundane and magical, as well as the labtexts stored?
On the same subject, The Gentle Herd is listed twice, I added it in my contribution and someone else did as well.
Other sticky threads maybe:
Specialists, Magic Items, Income (a page to track income, expenses and cost savings perhaps), animals and Familiars, defenses.
Lab page (though this could be just attached to each magus's page) and lab activities.
Just some suggestions. The covenant page is very useful, I was spending time getting reaquainted, some similar threads could help.
Yeah, that was me. Going to submit something else today as a substitute.
I seem to remember some discussion about getting a saga webpage somewhere I think we had talked about Obsidian Portal, I was thinking the arswiki has saga/covenant pages as well. My other sagas have used/are using wetpaint, but JL doesn't seem too impressed. But, yeah, I like the idea of having a saga/covenant website to make it easier to find stuff, too.
Yeah, I've been neglecting this task. Wetpaint is ok, but in my experience it is slow. And then with Obsidian Portal I got sucked in my some programability stuff. In between playing the games I'm in and doing some additional work for this saga, I've been behind in regards to the other stuff.
I do have this up as a raw site on Obsidian Portal, I haven't really done anything above and beyond that. I just haven't put anything there, yet. If someone wants to go ahead and get things rolling as far as organizing stuff, I'm good with that. Otherwise, I'll ask for patience for a week or two.
obsidianportal.com/campaigns/itrob
I also opened up the announcement thread fr the covenant, anyone can post to it now.
Sweet!
Quick question - is this editable by us, or no? (I'd been thinking about doing the same thing, but putting in all the covenants placed in the Tribunal books, plus the two or three campaigns on the forums that I've been in)
I'm actually not at all sure. It's a public map, but I don't know what permissions it allows.
Uh...what the heck just happened?
Let's get that dinner thread started.
I'll post Alexei's response, things happened so quickly he's not sure what exactly went on, don't want to retcon anything.
It's pretty obvious that Iaeptus lost the Certamen battle.
Badly.
And fast.
Aren't you happy with the comuppence delivered to Iaeptus?
Well it was the whole sigil thing also, it made it seem that Appollodorus was once a Tremere or something. Plus there was Apollodorus's own command that we treat all visitors as a Jerbiton. That's what confused Alexei, he was worried that Apollodorus was going to get mad at him or something for insulting iaeptus.
Yes.
Hope Brione is coming off suitably creepy with his addiction. I have to keep track of the Warping if any he gets.
Ugh.
Warping. It's something I've been thinking about, and could have some implications to the saga. I don't like that 6th magnitude spells and higher cause warping, automatically. And then why doesn't an Aegis cause warping (and don't say it was a breakthrough!)?
I like how they do Warping. Heck i even warp em if they get hit by an attack spell and survive. "Oh btw, add a Warping point to your somewhat charred body." Magic is foreign and its affects can be deleterious.
Regarding the Aegis (or Parma) since they're both part of similar discoveries by Bonisagus and Notatus, that's why I have no problem with them not causing warping.
Yes, but this is a game about Ars Magica. 
I am of two minds. I think the warping of someone getting hit by a BoF or IoL is a bit much. Technically, they're not the target of the spell, or even subject to the mystical effect, since it already happened (creation of the fire and lightning, respectively).
I think if you're subject to a ritual, excepting Aegis, where vis is used, yes. So, you have a massive healing spell, and they use vis to make it permanent, sure, that's gonna do something to you. I'm still ruminating on this.
Don't think either Shape of the Woodland Prowler (level 25) or Eyes of the Cat (level 5), or even Preternatural Growth and Shrinking (level 15) are high enough to cause warping...I think the threshold is level 30, iirc?
I think the rulebook gave an example on Warping that might apply to the Aegis: if you cast a spell on a castle to make it fly, the castle gets warping but the inhabitants don't, since they're not the subjects of the spell.
On the other hand (and this just occurred to me): what if someone who is not a part of the ritual casts a spell? They are now directly affected by the Aegis, in that their spell-casting is impeded by the spell. Unless you're using a rinky-dink version of the Aegis, would that not cause the magus Warping?
Maybe not...but it's an idea.