Blood of the Nephilim
     Major, Supernatural
     You have the blood of angels in your veins and descend from the great heroes of the Antediluvian Age, the Nephilim. Unless you take the Mythic Companion virtue, your heritage is somewhat diluted, although still significant.
     Your size is increased to +1, and this increases by +1 for every century you are alive.
     You may learn Dominion Lore during character creation without needing to take the Arcane Lore Minor Virtue.
     You age incredibly slowly, and may live for thousands of years. You need make an aging roll only once every ten years after the age of 150, and receive a –5 to Aging Rolls. You gain no benefit from Longevity Potions or any magic or supernatural power that slows or relieves Aging or Decrepitude. Once you gain your first Decrepitude Point, it becomes increasingly difficult for you to learn new things: subtract your age ÷ 10 from all Advancement Totals, although the Advancement Total for a season cannot drop below 1.
     Due to your great size, you must eat vast amounts of food (equal to what three normal people would eat in a day), and have the Minor Personality Flaw Greedy. If you go without food for even a single day you fall into a deep slumber, a kind of supernatural hibernation. You will starve to death in (2 + your Divine Might) days unless you are fed your own body-weight in food. (Note that this Virtue does not itself grant Divine Might; see Strong Angelic Heritage, below.) After awakening, you suffer a number of lost Long Term Fatigue Levels equal to the number of days you went without food.
     You may not take The Gift or True Faith, Hermetic Virtues or Flaws, Methods or Powers, Virtues such as Giant, Mythic, or Faerie Blood, Flaws such as Age Quickly or Lycanthrope, or Virtues or Flaws that affect your size.
     Magi and Grogs may not take this virtue.

Yeah, what I meant was take Strong Faerie Blood and Unaging instead of Blood of the Nephilim.

Honestly the Mercere head honcho should have been a 500 year old Redcap with like 6 major flaws. No way they couldn't get a top of the line LR in that position.

Yeah, what I meant was take Strong Faerie Blood and Unaging instead of Blood of the Nephilim.

In reply to Player 4 (msg # 809):

My understanding is it's a lab activity the first time that ritual is created and limited by the standard vis use in the lab rules but you can keep using a good ritual just upping the vis requirement due to aging but providing the same bonus. Eventually the negatives from age will outweigh the bonuses because no one in the world can design a more powerful one for that person. The other side though is that at a certain point vis limits are going to be too onerous as well, even using the arts of the one who performs the ritual as the vis limit is going to get to relatively impossible levels. Not to mention that deciding to spend 60 pawns on a ritual that likely won't last very long seems a bit overboard to me.

Who do we have that could act as a teacher of Latin for any aspiring writers, mage or mundane, to get their score in Latin up to 5 quickly? (and who has the time and willingness to do it?)

For that matter, what other mundane skills do we have good teachers for, who could teach classes? Getting grogs and companions up to speed on Latin, AL, Philosophy, MT, and Scribe could only help everyone.

He has the appropriate Virtue to learn Academic Abilities, and was trained at a covenant. But if our Alpha SG rules otherwise, I'd drop that, and spend the 30 xp allocated to it elsewhere.

Are we going to break out to separate rp threads for the covenant groups soon?  And figure out Beta-SG duties?

In reply to Player 8 (msg # 814):

Yes, that sounds a lot like my Becoming lab total of 210+. I did that something like 20 years out of gauntlet. That was a combo of good teaching and good leadership and a CrMe specialization as well as excellent Magic Theory. Find assistants. Earn favors by boosting their Intelligence (and other things). Teach them all Magic Theory. Profit a lot while doing so as well. Eventually you have a cluster of assistants who can each give you +15ish for a season. That can be 100 points right there. Throw in +20 for a lab and +20 for your own Int+MT+Aura, and you're at 140 before even counting Arts.

Does someone else automatically bring their familiar with them or does it count as a second slot for leadership or can they not help at all if they aren't your's?