A Bride for Merlin
Points, (etc.)
This document covers the special rules for Points, "Stuff", Contributions, and Discounts for the Amber DRPG campaign A Bride for Merlin, run in Atlanta, GA, by Franklin W. Cain.

Points

Characters will be built on a base of 150 points.

"Stuff"

No more than TEN (10) points of "Stuff" (Good or Bad).

Contributions

I will be awarding bonus points during Advancements based on Contributions I've received from you since your character's last Advancement. (In other words, Contributions are rewarded after the fact, not before.)

Exception:

Because of the importance of having a Campaign Log (to me, the GM, as well as to the Players), I will be awarding a bribe an up-front Contribution bonus of +10 points to the Player who volunteers to be the Log Keeper.

Note that this +10 point bonus is in addition to any points to be received for actually typing (and distributing) the damned thing! (Of course, if this Player ever quits being the Log Keeper, I'll want the freebie +10 points back.)

These are the "usual", more common Contributions and their respective values:

• Keeper of the Campaign Log - 5 [FIVE] (or more) points per "episode" (i.e., per session)

• Personal Diary - 1 (or more) points per "episode" (i.e., per session)

• Personal Stories - 1 (or more) points per story

• Trump Art - 1 (or more) points per artwork

Discounts

To encourage certain combinations of Powers (the better to reflect "canon"), I'm offering two different discounts, each with two different options.

Power-Based Trump   [+10 or +20]

To better reflect the commonly-held perception that Pattern and/or Logrus is a very useful pre-requisite for Trump, I am offering this discount for those Trump Artists who also have Pattern or Logrus (or both).

Case I   [+10]

• Must have Trump (or Advanced Trump)
• Must also have Pattern (or Adv. Pattern) and/or Logrus (or Adv. Logrus)

Case II   [+20]

• Must have Advanced Trump
• Must also have Adv. Pattern and/or Adv. Logrus

Chaos-Based Magic   [+10 or +15]

To better reflect the commonly-held perception that masters of the Logrus are frequently masters of Magic as well, I am offering this discount for those Logrus Masters who also have both Sorcery and Conjuration.

Case I   [+10]

• Must have both Sorcery (or Adv. Sorcery) and Conjuration (or Adv. Conj.)
  (Alternate: May substitute Basic Magic in place of Sorcery and Conjuration)
• Must also have Logrus (or Advanced Logrus)

Case II   [+15]

• Must have both Adv. Sorcery and Adv. Conjuration
  (Alternate: May substitute Adv. Magic in place of Adv. Sorcery and Adv. Conjuration)
• Must also have Advanced Logrus

Examples

Here are three example Chaosian characters built using the discounts.

Ex. 1: Magic & Trump			Ex. 2.a: Mega-Magic			Ex. 2.b: Mega-Magic #2
45	Logrus		70	Adv. Logrus		70	Adv. Logrus
40	Trump		35	Shape Shift		35	Shape Shift
35	Shape Shift		25	Adv. Sorcery		75	Adv. Magic
15	Sorcery		35	Adv. Conjuration		+15	Chaos-Based Magic
20	Conjuration		+15	Chaos-Based Magic		165	Subtotal
+10	Power-Based Trump		150	Subtotal
+10	Chaos-Based Magic
135	Subtotal