Richard Chilton wrote:
It's been a while since I looked at it, but read Lady's write up again. I could be wrong, but under those rules she shouldn't have been able to reach her rank without being Taken, which she wasn't.
The magic system was also clearly a victim of the same thing that produced all those typos. In several instances, the color text for a particular spell talent references a Taken using that spell, but the Taken stats later in the book indicate that Taken doesn't possess that talent. The game relies more on the d20 spell balancing than it does on Cook's novels. I always figured the best way to run a BC campaign would be to start the players out in Lady's army, have them survive the eastern front but not make it to Charm, and then let them sweat the prospect of having to go up against the Company themselves... That would also allow you to explore a few of the Taken who weren't fleshed out in the books. David