Post from Raban on actions...

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Subject: Re: [pnpgm] Delay.  Questions to be asked..
                                                                        
<Read Amulets on page 31 of original book 4. Since most passive items
are related to amulets its likely that those 'rules' apply. In effect
they tell the GM to put restrictions on item uses as needed to limit
them. Most GMs do not go beyond the 'must be worn and exposed to
function' except for those things which need extra ingredients like
making potions. Some add daily limits if the power is too useful and
not otherwise limited, like making cures by dipping into water. As
written that could be seen as infinite amount of cure potions or it
could be just one? If the potion made has a limited life then its
more self limiting, but most do not say they expire. In the case of
the Angelica Potion, normally it has no 'shelf life' but it is a
little more costly to make. And of course any stored potion can be
ruined with ease by breakage.>

<There may be other related rules in that section. Sadly permanent
magics never was detailed to the level it needed for easy use by the
GM or players. As a result all worlds differ in how the GM regulates
such things. This is literally the Magic Economy of the World and
determines just how common magical items are. In this case our GM
has a more relaxed limit system and thus magic is more common. He
limits it in other ways by use of 'balance', a quite effective method
and a warning to everyone around those with lots of magic. When I
have GMed I used a similar method for those characters who had better '
events' as obviously that meant the Gods had taken some interest in
that person. So the more powerful the character the more likely some
diety had things they wanted done by them and thus some other dieties
may want to prevent it.>

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