"These are a few of my favorite things..."

[magnate]

Well, I thought it might be fun to put just one level in every magic path, then equip my mage with rings of sorcery and wizardry, a staff of elemental mastery and a robe of the magi, before sending him off to find every magic site possible (except the holy ones, of course). I used all the spare points to pump up his Dominion (because he couldn't leave the lab until he'd researched construction 6).

As Pythium I had to take Air2 in order to manufacture all the items - can anybody do it without needing a level 2 path?

Also, why do two identical miscellaneous items not stack when two identical one-handed items do? Or is it only magic bonuses that don't stack? (I made two rings of wizardry but that was a waste - would two thistle maces stack?)