Wisdom of the Desert: A 5th edition Levant Tribunal project

[Jank (Medusa)]

I don't want to digress too much, but i wanted to have an NPC alchemist in my game, but it made so little sense that I chose to hand-wave his activities rather than map them mechanically, exactly for that reason...

[rgd20 (Bob)]

This is what we did to rebalance Vulgar Alchemy:

Let's fix Vulgar Alchemy

Here they are, based on the idea that it should be a smidge easier to find new bonuses than to conduct original research . This hasn't been playtested, and the numbers could probably do with a second pass, but I'm happy with the overall structure. Balance-wise, I don't see a huge benefit from new s/m bonuses, as you're always capped by your MT. If you use the massive canonical list, you can probably cap out for most items/potent spells without too much trouble The main control in this …

[ExarKun]

Yes the main problem remains the limitation on MT. If S&M discovered by vulgar alchemy were an exception to that limitation, it would change everything. Like how elder runes allow to use MT X philosophiae instead of MT x2, maybe vulgar alchemy should allow S&M discovered by it to go up for MT x philosophiae/2 rounded up instead of MT

Edit: and while writing this, I find it's very thematic since philosophiae is clearly linked to alchemy in A&A. So I may put this as a house rule in my game.