Reading the info in M&M for Mnemonic Enhancer has me wondering...

Do spells count as skills?

Level 3 of Mnemonic Enhancer reduces Karma costs by 3 for learning new or improving skills.

nvm, as per the reav-meister, i need to keep up with SoTA.

Spells are spells, skills are skills. They bare absolutely no relation to one another beyond using karma to purchase - even then it's different rates.

It's arguable that learning a spell (at least the hermetic method) bears resemblance to learning a skill, at least in that it requires a certain amount of memorization-related activity. On the other hand, as your sig reminds us, that's mixing rules and common sense, and the rules are unambiguous on this issue.

~J

Can shamans get an Emotic enhancer that enhances their emotional learning of the spell then.
I say it should give combat bonuses when you're angry but make you cry whenever you're happy.

Jhonson: "So, UrsineDeath, are the targets disposed of?"
UrsineDeath: "I ripped them limb from limb, and posted their body parts to their relatives!"
Jhonson: "OK. Here's your 5k, and the 1k 'posting to relatives' bonus"
UrsineDeath: "I Love You!" *sobs*

Oooh, oooh!

Knowledge skills: Speed reading, Hermetic Theory and Memorization! Comp dice to Sorcery or learning/designing spells?

Kinda makes you wonder how Photographic Memory would impact a hermetic's abilities...:

-Siege

While the Mnemonic Enhancer doesn't lower the Karma cost for learning a spell, Initiates can lower the cost with a successful Astral Quest. We've found in our campaign that the book rule lets high-initiate magicians get too powerful too quickly, so our house rule is to halve the benefit the book gives.

The most recent publication of M&M lowered the Karma reduction of the Mnemonic Enhancer to a maximum of 1. See the Errata for M&M (search for 'Mnemonic') for details.

If you are selling it to other runners, you're not going to care about plagarism

True, but you did say open market... Black market would be a different story, although I'm sure there'd be a publisher out there ready to print "The idiots guide to hermetic magic".

Hehe... I'm waiting to see the "The Idiots guide to Initiation"

"The Idiots guide to Astral Space" And you thought there was dangerous stuff on THIS side of existence!

So? A Mnemonic Enhancer doesn't enhance a Photographic Memory in game terms.

Yes, Photographic Memory and Perceptive very powerful in the hands of the Awakened. Add a Direction Sense, Wilderness Survival, Navigation, Metamagic: Sensing and you will be a real survivalist.

Very good point. Yea, Im not getting the enhancer to enhance my memory; just the other bonuses.