Does natural magic stack with quality given magic? Options

[WeaverMount]

But on the negative side, you start out as an awakened character with NO magical skills or spells whatsoever, and in addition you have no control over what type of awakened character you become (although I imagine most GMs will still sound out the player to see what he wants, beforehand). Even for an adept, you need to spend time learning how to control your power.

actually you start out as 395BP mundane. Later on down the road when buying 6s and 7s in skills just isn't worth it Mundanes start round out there skills. Counter spelling and Summoning are a wee mite more useful than most other picks

[Cabral]

As I said, the precedent is set with Latent Awakening, and even with metahuman Attributes. A Troll does not have to pay for the Attribute points in those stats that he has negatives (unlike previous editions). He merely has lower Attribute maximums. The same principle could (and maybe should) be said for the Magic Attribute.

Another interpretation, one that is a bit of a stretch and with less precedence, is that the "lost" magic attribute is added to the bill. You pay for the quality, which gives you a magic of one but you've lost four points of Essence so you need to buy 4 points of magic as well in order to have a magic of one.

It's got less precedence, but it might appeal to those that think the base quality is too cheesy. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)