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Message no. 1
From: Randy Nickel <LrdDrgn@***.COM>
Subject: A question on spell casting
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 00:55:24 EDT
I finally got the my SR3 softback on Saturday and read it yesterday and today.

I needed some clarification on spell use.

When casting the spell the Force is simply the target number used to resist
the spell. You no longer use dice from the Force though. You only use dice
from Sorcery, and the Spell Pool? Is that right?

Also, and this may already have been mentioned, but they do still have
Expendable Fetish Foci.

Otter

PS - I have to say that there is more stuff in the SR3 that I like then what I
dislike. :)
Message no. 2
From: Mongoose <evamarie@**********.NET>
Subject: Re: A question on spell casting
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 01:13:55 -0700
-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Nickel <LrdDrgn@***.COM>
To: SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET <SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET>
Date: Sunday, August 16, 1998 9:57 PM
Subject: A question on spell casting


>I finally got the my SR3 softback on Saturday and read it yesterday and
today.
>
>I needed some clarification on spell use.
>
>When casting the spell the Force is simply the target number used to resist
>the spell. You no longer use dice from the Force though. You only use dice
>from Sorcery, and the Spell Pool? Is that right?

That's what the excelently detailed spellcasting procedure says, yes.
You also can't cast with more pool dice than sorcery dice, and "should" save
some sorcery dice for defense. This "skill splitting" is odd at first, but
seems to work very well, and isn't actually a major change, since "sorcery"
used to effect spellcasting only through the pool it granted.

>
>Also, and this may already have been mentioned, but they do still have
>Expendable Fetish Foci.

Right, just expendable fetishes were removed, not the actual expendable
foci. I think the foci are slightly diffrent in effect, so read those before
using.

Mongoose

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