View source for Novgorod House Rules and clarifications

==Clarifications:== 
These are common mistakes that we have made or interpretations I would suggest where the existing rules are ambiguous. 
===Rituals===
* Momentary rituals can not be cast with “Circle” as the target (Except book specific listed ones which can be assumed to be the results of experimentation). Circles and other symbols are already a part of ritual design, so if you want to affect more than one person you need to use the group target.
===Resources===
* Vis and wealth should be tracked by the covenant (I can help automate this) as lack of resources can drive stories. This also gives you an idea of how many people live at a covenant. 
===Familiars===
* Familiars can learn normal skills through any method. However as mentioned in RoP:Magic, they can only gain exp towards Transformation from Practice, Adventure or a Teacher who has the quality they are attempting to gain through transformation. It is not possible to turn exp from other sources like reading or teaching on an unrelated subject into exp for Transformation. (Practicing a Quality that you already possess with the intention of improving upon it has a Study Total of 5.) 
===Transport===
* Flying spells require an Intelligence + Finesse roll to change direction or speed; with an Ease Factor related to his current speed — Ease Factor 3 for walking pace, Ease Factor 9 at moderate speed, Ease Factor 12 at maximum speed. (As per Mercury’s Winged Sandals - Transforming Mythic Europe pg 111). Failure can result in falling damage based on the speed.
* Teleporting spells require a finesse roll (with either; Dexterity TN: 6 for places you can see or Intelligence TN: 9 for places you can’t see) See Seven League Stride - AM5th ed, pg135 and Step Sideways - Through the Aegis pg 79. If you fail your arrival goes slightly awry. For instance, you might fall when you appear, or just be facing the wrong way. A botch means you appear in the wrong place, perhaps even in a wall which will cause injury. 
* Whilst ReCo spells can teleport a person with clothes and personal effects (Load that doesn’t encumber and not another being). For anything other than a hair shirt, or human-leather shoes, you need the appropriate requisites if you want to carry anything with you when you teleport otherwise it is left behind. Remember that spells of lv 30 or above, unless they are designed specifically for the user will cause warping, this includes spells from magic items.
* Further details about long distance travel can be found below.
===Arcane Connections===
* Book says: "Arcane connections must be stored carefully or else they become links to different people or places."
* Whilst things like Familiars and Talismans are reliable things to teleport to, other arcane connections are "over-written" by strong magical effects cast upon them. So in general you can only teleport to a fixed Arcane connection unless that connection is exceptionally well cared for and fresh. Meaning you need to spend a whole season fixing it. (you can’t just have a few dozen assorted AC’s in a bag as we currently do) [Phillip spent 10 days a Season maintaining his AC collection, as noted when he got the ability]ook says(pg 59 Against the Dark: The Transylvanian Tribunal): “Leap of Homecoming, and similar Rego Corpus spells, instantly transport the caster to a location to which he has an Arcane Connection to. In general, nothing prevents the caster from crossing a regio boundary in this manner. On the other hand, some regiones cannot be entered or left via Rego Corpus effects. Some magi have theories about why this is so, but there seems to be no reliable way to predict how a regio will interact with Rego Corpus magic.”
* However by default, as it would normally make a more interesting story it is probably best to assume that scrying on something in a regio or transporting to an AC in a regio will generally be possible, but will lead you to just outside the Regio entrance. Individual STs can decide that this is different for individual Regios. (Reasoning: This means that you can’t bypass the layers of the regio and must confront them which is more interesting in most stories. Imagine if Orpheus could have teleported back from his journey to the underworld.). STs can also decide that a specific Regio like the Labyrinth of Crete prevents any teleporting within or through it or causes them to end up in a random area of the regio as appropriate. 
===Mastery===
* Corebook says: "[Mastery] may bring the number of [Botch] dice down to zero. Mastered spells are always cast with a stress die, but IF the Magi is relaxed there are no botch die, even in a non-magic aura or when using Vis." This means that, if a magi is not relaxed or is casting under time pressure (Such as when in combat) they can still botch with 1 dice even if Mastery would normally reduce that to zero.
===Invisible Sling of Vilano===
Damage can only be increased further by increasing the size of the projectile:
* Level 5: Hurl a stone projectile with enough force to do +5 damage (range increment of 20 paces)
* Level 10: Hurl a stone projectile with enough force to do +10 damage (range increment of 20 paces)
* Level 15: Hurl a stone projectile with enough force to do +15 damage (range increment of 20 paces)
* Level 20: Hurl a 10kg stone projectile with enough force to do +20 damage (range increment of 20 paces)
* Level 25: Hurl a 100kg stone bolder with enough force to do +25 damage (range increment of 20 paces)
Increases beyond this are not possible.

===Magic (Spells/items/powers) with more than one effect in them===
All such spells powers and items should be posted in the Spell and Item design, as these powers can be contentious and in general "Why are these two effects not two separate spells?", and don't have a good answer, then they should be separate spells.

===Area Lores===
To prevent Redcaps needing to buy a million different area Lores or one very useless area lore "Eastern Europe", we're breaking things down into regions based on language groups. 
The Area Lore: Eastern Europe skill does exist, but only really covers trade routes and long distance travel for all other uses it is at least +3 to the ease factor for major cities +6 Ease factor for other things.
You can absolutely have more narrow area lore skills than this and it is encouraged, but these regions should give a functional grasp of the region as a whole including how to navigate them. 
* Baltic Region (Modern Lithuania Latvia and Estonia)
* Kievan Rus - (Novgorod and Russia) - The area between the Mongolian territories and the Baltics.
* Western Slavic lands (Modern Poland and Prussia)
* Southern Slavic lands (Modern Hungary, Croatia, Serbia and Bulgaria)
* Mongolian Khanate (Areas conquered and held by the Mongol client states.

The Ease factor for most of these should be about 9.
If you have a narrower Area Lore such as Lithuania, then the difficulty should be decreased by about 3.
If you have a wider area lore like Eastern Europe, then all difficulties should be increased by 3.

===Other===
We do use the 5th edition errata, particularly for Durations, Targets and Sizes and Multicasting and when it becomes available, the new book will be considered the master guide.

The Latin Specialisation: Hermetic Usage is only for texts on: Arts, Magic Theory, Parma Magica, Lab texts and Hermetic spell masteries.

Mystery Virtues can't be obtained from most methods that grant virtues after character generation. (e.g. Positive twilight experiences, Pilgrimage, Magic Realm transformation etc...) they can generally only be gained from mystery cult membership, original research to recreate their effects or similar. Although some exceptions can be made for very widespread mysteries.