Changes to the Sorcery Path Rarity System

3.c.iii. Genre Coordinators must pass before Council any plot, enforced policy, R&U named characters, or binding edict they wish to use which they can reasonably expect to affect multiple chronicles and these proposals need not be seconded, but go immediately into discussion.

Below is an update to the sorcery path rarities. I am not including conversions in this request as those will follow with another prop later.

Updated To:
Assamite Sorcery Paths – (Rarity/Required Rank):
All of the paths in this packet have their most recent text reference (which may differ from the actual genre text reference) listed in the chart below. Any paths not printed in a Revised MET book are listed in the section directly following the path chart. Note: Use of the Tremere: Clan Book (revised) as a MET rules references is merely for a lack of any other MET write up for paths listed as being in genre for Assamite Sorcerers.
Key for books listed under MET rules reference:
BM: SoT -- Blood Magic: Secrets of Thaumaturgy
BS: tTC -- Blood Sacrifice: the Thaumaturgy Companion
DA: VoN -- Dark Ages: Veil of Night
LotN (revised) -- Laws of the Night (revised)
MET: LoE -- Mind's Eye Theater: Laws of Elysium
MET: SG -- Mind's Eye Theater: Sabbat Guide
MET: StG -- Mind's Eye Theater: Storytellers Guide
PGttLC -- Player's Guide to the Low Clans
TT: CG -- Table-top Camarilla Guide
Tremere: CB (revised) -- Tremere Clanbook (revised)
All Paths listed as Dur An Ki or Assamite sorcery not presented here are to be considered R4, Coordinator approval only. In OWbN, Dur An Ki is the same as Assamite Sorcery. Anything marked with (A) is an Assamite Only Path. This means that the path may ONLY be bought by an Assamite PC's unless otherwise marked.
Common Paths: (Rarity: 1 / Rank: Aspirant) * =Primary path option, ** =Dur An Ki, (A) =Assamite Only
Path Name
Preferred name for path
MET rules reference
Elemental Mastery*
Elemental Mastery
MET: CG, pg. 77
Lure of Flames*
Hands of the Magi
LotN (revised), pg. 178
Movement of the Mind*
Movement of the Mind
LotN (revised), pg. 180
Spirit Manipulation*
Sulecman’s Laws
MET: CG, pg. 89
Weather Control*
Weather Control
MET: CG, pg. 93
Uncommon Paths: (Rarity: 2 / Rank: Associate)
Path Name
Preferred name for path
MET rules reference
Alchemy
Alchemy
MET: StG, pg. 47
Green Path, the
The Covenant of Ashnan
MET: CG, pg. 78
Hands of Destruction
Fists of the Djinn
LotN (revised), pg. 183
Neptune’s Might*
The Covenant of Enki
MET: CG, pg. 81
Path of Blood
Path of Life’s Water
LotN (revised), pg. 177
Path of Conjuring
Path of Conjuring
LotN (revised), pg. 182
Rare Paths: (Rarity: 3 / Rank: Master)
Path Name
Preferred name for path
MET rules reference
Focused Mind, the
Echo of Nirvana
MET: StG, pg. 50
Hearth Path, the
Defending the Mountain
MET: StG, pg. 51
Hunter’s Winds, the* (A) (special (b))
Hunter’s Winds, the
BM: SoT, pg. 123
Music of the Spheres **
Music of the Spheres
BS: tTC, pg. 46
Oneiromancy
The Way of the Dreamer
MET: StG, pg. 54
Path of Father’s Vengeance
Path of the Ailing Jackal
MET: SG, pg. 127
Path of Mars
The Way of Ashur
MET: SG, pg. 125
Very Rare Paths: (Rarity: 4 / Rank: Distinguished Master)
Path Name
Preferred name for path
MET rules reference
Awakening of the Steel (A) (special (a))
Awakening of the Steel
Assamite: CB (revised), pg. 74
Evil Eye, the
Evil Eye, the
BS: tTC, pg. 44
Path of Blood’s Curse
Fouling Life’s Water
MET: StG, pg. 56
Path of Curses
Path of Curses
MET: StG, pg. 58
Path of Duat **
Differs depending upon worship
BS: tTC, pg. 26
Path of Technomancy
Reading the Sky’s Thoughts
MET: CG, pg. 86
Way of Warding
Way of Warding
Dark Ages Companion
Spirit Thaumaturgy
Path of the Dead
MET: LoE, pg. 74
Way of the Levinbolt
Wielding Ishkur’s Spear
Tremere: CB (revised), pg. 51
Exceptionally Rare Paths: (Rarity: 5 / Rank: Full Master)
Path Name
Preferred name for path
MET rules reference
Covenant of Nergal **
Covenant of Nergal
BS: tTC, pg. 43
Path of Blood Nectar **
Path of Blood Nectar
BS: tTC, pg. 62
Whispers of the Heavens **
Whispers of the Heavens
Libellus Sanguinus, pg. 123
Dead Path's of Sorcery: (not usable by any PC or NPC)
Path Name
Preferred name for path
MET rules reference
Hedayat Iman (Gifts of Faith)
Hedayat Iman
DA: VoN, pg. 161
Hedayat El-Qalb (Gifts of the Heart)
Hedayat El-Qalb
DA: VoN, pg. 163

Key for other symbols & acronyms:
* -- Primary Path option
** -- Dur An Ki
(A) -- Assamite only path
L -- Loyalist
AT -- Antitribu / Unconquered
Special note (a): It may be seen by some Storytellers that Awakening the Steel (level 5); Strike the True Flesh can be unbalancing. For those games that would prefer a house rule to limit this discipline to something less powerful the following are suggested:

• No more than 3 points of damage be unpreventable by this attack.
• Only allow this discipline’s use once per turn.
• Only allow this to be used in conjunction with non-wooden edged weapons.

Quietus 2 and 4 are supernatural enhancements for the purposes of this power’s limitations.
Special note (b): Coord Approval is required for a character to begin on this path.Authentic SneakersAir Jordan