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Message no. 1
From: t_little@**********.utas.edu.au (Timothy Little)
Subject: Focus addiction (was: two things - magic and decks)
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 09:41:14 +1100
>Gurth wrote:
>> Focus addiction is something just about nobody has to worry about, if you
>> ask me... It can only happen if you use foci with a higher total rating
>> than your Magic rating, in which case you get to make a Magic test, TN =
>> total foci rating. No successes means you recieve a geas that says you
>> must use a focus relevant to the magical skill being used else there's a
>> +2 TN modifier.
>
>I've got a PC who'd become a focus addict...

Me too - TN# 20 is just way too high.
Whoops: spell locks would count too - make that TN# 24 (5 times worse).

So, what sort of focus is relevant to Enchanting? I'd hate to have an
unfulfillable geas.
To cut out the +2 to Conjuring I'd have to get a couple of spirit foci,
which would be annoying.

A few thoughts (not having seen Awakenings) - where you said "... use foci
with a higher total rating ...", does that mean it only applies to *active*
foci? Is it treated like a normal geas in that you can make a Willpower
test on initiation to shed it?

--
Tim Little
Message no. 2
From: "Gurth" <gurth@******.nl>
Subject: Re: Focus addiction (was: two things - magic and decks)
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 10:32:19 +0100
Timothy Little said on 3 Nov 95...

> A few thoughts (not having seen Awakenings) - where you said "... use foci
> with a higher total rating ...", does that mean it only applies to *active*
> foci?

Only for active foci, yes. You can own 20 Force 5 foci, but if your Magic
rating is 6 you can use any one of them at any time without having a
chance of addiction. Once you switch on two or more at the same time
you're in trouble...

> Is it treated like a normal geas in that you can make a Willpower
> test on initiation to shed it?

Yes. But you can become addicted again if you fail your Magic test again.
You can ignore the foci-induced geas but then you can never become an
initiate.

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