Tien Chi Default
I'm confused about the default Version of Tien Chi. My confusion was instigated by my recent discovery that there is a Celestial Gardener as a national summoning spell.
Admittedly, I had not played the default Version much -- but still it took me over a month to even recognize that this spell *existed*. I don't want to fault the documentation here, but rather the concept:
- why make a national summons which quite conceivably could *never* be used in the course of an entire game? Yes, it took me *that* long to get a CM with a random earth pick. Had I not chosen to cast a ritual spell with that mage, and had I been even less attentive than normal, I might not even have noticed that spell existing.
Fine, now I know how it works. Just like the other celestial summoning spell, the dual-air 1 astral. This is also a spell which requires great luck to even be able to cast. Either you must get lucky to use it (random air pick) or you need to design a god around casting these spells (which, by the way, is not encouraged by the misleading (well: downright false) "flavor text", in which the summons are described as being "only" summonable by the CMs, which is not the case). That seems really very bizarre.
If it is purely a question of balance, why not make them available to celestial masters and more expensive? (*IF* it is a question of balance.) Or make them weaker. Otherwise, I can't see why the horse servants should require 2 air, nor why the gardeners should require a path that the national mages rarely get.
My plea for 2.10: Rehaul the celestial summoning to make it available to all CMs.
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