From: | Timothy Little <t_little@**********.UTAS.EDU.AU> |
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Subject: | Extra spell dice (was: questions?) |
Date: | Mon, 1 May 1995 07:48:33 +1000 |
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>> There will be no 8 dice force 1 anything spells cast in my campaign!
>> (I will see if I can post a page reference if you want one.)
>
>I think you'll be pushing it. I'll give you a page reference for the exact
>opposite if you like however, try page 111 of the Grimything, where it says
>"Does this mean a magician with Sorcery/Magic Pool of 6, a Power Focus (3),
>and a +2 Totem Advantage for a spell can cast it with Force 1, and then roll
>11 dice to smack the target? Yes."
There's almost a contradiction between this and the p.119 SR2 rule that
states that Totem Advantage Dice are treated as Magic Pool at the time the
spell is cast.
If the Totem Dice are treated as Magic Pool, then they should be subject to
the restriction that limits the number of dice used in casting to the
magician's Magic Rating.
This opens up the question of whether Foci that add dice (in the same way as
totem bonuses) are limited by Magic Rating. Fetish foci muddy the waters
even further, since unlike the more permanent foci their dice do not go into
magic pool, and so are not limited in this way.
--
Tim Little