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Message no. 1
From: Bryce Kaspar <Bryce.Kaspar@********.EDU>
Subject: Focus Addiction?
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 14:11:50 -0700 (MST)
What exactly is this focus addiction that keeps wandering around.
Ihaven't gotten any of the really new sourcebooks yet so I probably just
missed it. Couldst one of thou enlighten and dazzle me with thy
knowledge, mayhaps?

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Message no. 2
From: Rick Jones <rick@******.COM>
Subject: Re: Focus Addiction?
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 15:26:20 -0600 (CST)
Bryce Kaspar wrote:
> What exactly is this focus addiction that keeps wandering around.
> Ihaven't gotten any of the really new sourcebooks yet so I probably just
> missed it. Couldst one of thou enlighten and dazzle me with thy

Essentially, if you carry more foci + spell locks than you have points in
Magic Rating, and you start casting spells you could only cast with all
your toys, then roll 2d6. If the number is under your magic rating,
you're fine, if it's over, you lose a point of magic rating. If you lose
a second point, you start needing foci to cast any spell.

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Message no. 3
From: Robert Watkins <robertdw@*******.com.au>
Subject: Re: Focus Addiction?
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 13:33:12 +1100 (EST)
>What exactly is this focus addiction that keeps wandering around.
>Ihaven't gotten any of the really new sourcebooks yet so I probably just
>missed it. Couldst one of thou enlighten and dazzle me with thy
>knowledge, mayhaps?

It's in "Awakenings". As a quick summary: if you use more foci ratings
than you've got Magic points, you're quite possibly screwed. :)


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Message no. 4
From: "Gurth" <gurth@******.nl>
Subject: Re: Focus Addiction?
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 12:07:28 +0100
Bryce Kaspar said on 19 Jan 96...

> What exactly is this focus addiction that keeps wandering around.
> Ihaven't gotten any of the really new sourcebooks yet so I probably just
> missed it. Couldst one of thou enlighten and dazzle me with thy
> knowledge, mayhaps?

It's in Awakenings. Basically, if you have foci active, of a total rating
higher than your Magic Attribute, you stand a chance of becoming addicted
and getting a +2 modifier to all your magical TNs unless you have a focus
active that applies to the skill being used.

At least, unless the rules were significatnly changed between the NAGM and
Awakenings :)

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Message no. 5
From: NightLife <habenir@******.SAN.UC.EDU>
Subject: Focus Addiction
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 00:57:54 -0500
Let me propose a interpertation. In Awakeings it says that when a mage fails
a roll for focus addiction against his magic rating he loses a magic point.
Now I assume the roll is made vs. his natural magic rating without power
foci. So when he blows it's against his natural rating not the higher rating
from foci which had been modified correct? What is the offical ruling one this.

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