teaching breakthroughs, hermetic versus major

[Berengar]

@KevinSchultz

Note that these rules have mutated slightly over time.

Technically you can teach Major and Hermetic Integrations once they are officially virtues. (ie, after you've gained all the relevant Insight.) However, the most recent rules for teaching virtues (as laid out in Apprentices) makes it just barely possible to teach a completely pristine student a single minor virtue, and maybe one major virtue, if you don't mind saddling said student with a major flaw.

Don't mix up the rules from Apprentices p. 40ff Teaching Hermetic Virtues for teaching an Hermetic Virtue you have to an apprentice of yours with the rules from HoH:TL p.29 Breakthroughs in Play to teach other magi the Major Breakthrough of yours. The situations are different, and Apprentices p.40ff neither subsumes no overrides HoH:TL p.29.

Note here also the author of Apprentices in Re: Apprentices: in my hands...

@Matt Ryan

The real measure of the teaching Hermetic Virtue rule is if it doesn’t work for other magi. I wanted a rule that lets magi teach apprentices, but wouldn’t let magi teach magi.

Cheers