@Reaver
Because I go by the book in trying to understand when and where to houserule things rather than an understanding of how things should be built up over several versions or because I'm only willing to adjust my attempts to house rule the system if people can actually supply concrete examples of how my changes would affect things badly (although from what I've seen no one actually likes house ruling this sytem at all or if they do they don't post on here)?
Serious question here I am bad at interacting with people and if I know why I can try and stop doing it.
@General (On Topic)
For the record if I do google Nymph I get the traditional description (water spirit), if I google nymph/shadowrun I get that its an immature queen or mother.
In the section on mantid spirits it does say
Mantid spirits never have a Queen or Mother and only rarely produce a nymph. In the rare cases that this happens, the other mantid spirits treat the nymph with a high amount of respect and deference, as if she were a sort of tribal elder.
Which can be read as either they don't exist or that they can't be summoned. However if you take it the second way in that the magical levels of earth aren't high enough to summon them it does mean they do exist somewhere, a conclusion backed up by the fact that a nymph is defined as an immature queen/mother. If you don't want a mantid queen you need a mantid mother either way terms aside its the same thing a more powerful mantid spirit than the nymph.
So please explain to me where I'm going wrong here? Street grimoire STATES that a nymph is an immature queen/mother spirit, a queen/mother spirit as far as I can see is the same thing and google supports this conclusion.
