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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">I start with a premise that it's
way too easy to create magic items, and then characters start to look like
christmas trees with magic ornaments hanging all over themselves.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">So...maybe the Magic User making
Permanent Magic items need to pay more for them somehow…something like the mana
cost used to form the Perm Magic spell is temporarily deducted from the Mage’s
Casting Ability. The mage could recover the lost CA using the same
rules as recovering Energy Level In other words, it takes something out of
the wizard (it takes a lot out of him) and keeps him from just becoming a magic
item creation machine, and is slower than just recovering mana.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>So...is
this just plain heresy? Unworkable? tell me what you
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