For those that wanted it:

original e-mail (they've snipped off the initial paragraph which talked about the way the book is written and that whole seperate quest for powers thing, and I emptied my sent items in June. The question was asked september 2003):

>What I'd like to know is: does this mean that a character can only
>learn ONE technique per grade, and that at the time of initiation, or
>can a character learn more techinuques between grades if they roleplay
>their way into a spirit or other teachers' good books, for instance, or
>just decide to do a quest to learn one?

Reply:

Hi,

It's one technique per grade. In SR2 magicians could learn any number of
techniques, but this was too powerful so we changed it in SR3.


:: Rob Boyle ::
Shadowrun Developer for FanPro LLC
info@shadowrunrpg.com ~ www.shadowrunrpg.com

So there you go.

MitS is Magic in the Shadows - the 3rd edition grimoire.

BBB stands for Big Black Book - another name for the SR3 core rule book.

As to Spirits crossing Domain lines, there is a Metamagic in SR3 called Invoking, which allows an Initiate to Conjure Great Form Spirits or Elementals. These Spirits can indeed cross Domain lines, but normal, non-Great Form Spirits still cannot, even if controlled by the same Shaman who Conjured the Great Form.