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Unusual Background Costs for Colleges in GURPS Shadow World
The following table shows what colleges spellcasters of the different realms can access freely based on their commonallity within the tradition, and what colleges are uncommon enough to warrant the extra cost of an Unusual Background: Rare College. A special note should be made of the Gate college. The knowledge represented there has been guarded for millennia by Navigators and Loremasters, and are very unlikely to be accessible to any but these esteemed groups - but exeptions do of course exist.
| Channelling | Essence | Mentalism | |
| Animal | 5 | ||
| Body Control | |||
| Communication/Empathy | 5 | ||
| Earth | 5 | ||
| Air | 5 | ||
| Fire | 5 | ||
| Water | 5 | ||
| Enchantment | |||
| Food | 5 | ||
| Gate | 25 | 25 | 25 |
| Healing | 5 | ||
| Illusion/Creation | 5 | ||
| Knowledge | |||
| Light/Darkness | 5 | ||
| Making & Breaking | 5 | ||
| Meta | 5 | ||
| Mind Control | 5 | ||
| Movement | 5 | ||
| Necromancy | 5 | 5 | |
| Plant | 5 | ||
| Protection/Warning | |||
| Sound | 5 | ||
| Tech | 5 | 5 | 5 |
Note that each realm has 8 colleges that are uncommon. This is actually in keeping with the Rolemaster reality. Spells from most colleges can be found somewhere in the lists of the realm subclasses.
As with One-college Magery, all members of the magic using professions can always learn Lend ST and Recover ST, without regard to other limitations, ie. no UB will be charged for those two spells.
However, to keep things fair, a few prerequisite changes are in order:
The notes and analyses of the correlation between Rolemaster Spell Lists and GURPS Magic colleges that is the foundation of this table can be found here.