From:	Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject:	Grounding
Date:	Fri, 2 Jun 2000 12:00:44 +0200

According to ShadowRunner9653@***.com, at 18:24 on 1 Jun 00, the word on
the street was...

> This questions interests me as well since it was always a good way to keep
> the mages from having oodles of active foci/Spell Locks/Sustained spell foci.

Same here, and that's one of the reasons why it's still used in my group's
games. (The other reason is that our last campaign -- which is technically
still going but in another form -- was started with SRII rules, so we kept
grounding in for continuity.)

> I understood the no physical thing. But what about spells like chaotic world.
> Or other area effect mana spells.

Grounding doesn't happen anymore, it's as simple as that. If you cast
Chaotic World at an astrally-perceiving magician, that magician will be in
its area of effect (as will anyone nearby on the astral plane) and will be
affected by it, but the spell will not ground out in any way. This makes
casting it as an active focus, in order to affect the focus' wielder,
pointless.

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