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Message no. 1
From: Ed <equine@***********.COM>
Subject: Magic Queation
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 12:58:20 -0600
Talking to a Street Shaman player of mine he asked a question that I
answered but wanted to run it through the list to see what you guys say.

He has Conjuring as a skill..and he was asking about Specializations. The
book shows Summoning, Banning, and Controlling. What he was wanting to
know was can there be City Spirit Summoning or Nature Spirit Summoning as
Specializations. Would this be to limiting on the player? I think it
would keep him from being to powerful. I mean if he can summon a spirit
anywhere using the same number of dice he would have nothing holding him
back. But if he had more dice for city spirits and less for anything else
then he would not be as powerful. Or do most of the totems fix that kind
of problem?

Ed
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Message no. 2
From: Jared Leisner <leisnj48@****.CIS.UWOSH.EDU>
Subject: Re: Magic Queation
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:33 -0600
[snip]

Question: Can a shaman have a City Spirit Summoning Concentration?


In SR3, no. That was SR2's specialization, off of the Summoning
concentration. In SR3, there are no equivilent of SR2's specs, just SR3
specs, the equiv of SR2's concs.

In summary,
If he plays SR2: Yes
If he plays SR3: No
Message no. 3
From: Starjammer <starjammer@**********.COM>
Subject: Re: Magic Queation
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:19:43 -0500
At 12:58 PM 11/13/98 -0600, you wrote:
>
>He has Conjuring as a skill..and he was asking about Specializations. The
>book shows Summoning, Banning, and Controlling. What he was wanting to
>know was can there be City Spirit Summoning or Nature Spirit Summoning as
>Specializations. Would this be to limiting on the player? I think it
>would keep him from being to powerful. I mean if he can summon a spirit
>anywhere using the same number of dice he would have nothing holding him
>back. But if he had more dice for city spirits and less for anything else
>then he would not be as powerful. Or do most of the totems fix that kind
>of problem?
>
>Ed Mayhall

AFAIK, there's no innate problem with allowing a Conjurer to specialize by
spirit-type. Just bear in mind, though, that if he's using a totem that
provides a totem bonus to conjuring that kind of spirit, then he's going to
be VERY good at working with that kind of spirit (probably 9 or 10 dice for
conjuring tests on that kind of spirit, depending on which version of the
rules you're using). Or, he could be angling to use specialization to
offset a totem penalty towards a certain kind of spirit.

There's nothing inherently wrong with either course, of course, but you
should think long and hard about it before allowing it, IMO.

Starjammer | Una salus victus nullam sperare salutem.
starjammer@**********.com | "The one hope of the doomed is not to hope
Marietta, GA | for safety." --Virgil, The Aeneid
Message no. 4
From: K in the Shadows <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Magic Queation
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:14:57 EST
In a message dated 11/13/1998 2:30:16 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
leisnj48@****.CIS.UWOSH.EDU writes:

>> Question: Can a shaman have a City Spirit Summoning Concentration?
> In SR3, no. That was SR2's specialization, off of the Summoning
> concentration. In SR3, there are no equivilent of SR2's specs, just SR3
> specs, the equiv of SR2's concs.
>
> In summary,
> If he plays SR2: Yes
> If he plays SR3: No
>
Uh, well, actually, he can if he plays SR3. He could take a Specialization in
City Spirits, and that skill level would include the Banishing, Summoning, and
Controlling OF City Spirits -only-.

So yes, it can be done. It is just done differently than before.

-K
Message no. 5
From: Sean McCrohan <mccrohan@*****.OIT.GATECH.EDU>
Subject: Re: Magic Queation
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:38:09 -0500
Quoting K in the Shadows (Ereskanti@***.COM):
> Uh, well, actually, he can if he plays SR3. He could take a Specialization in
> City Spirits, and that skill level would include the Banishing, Summoning, and
> Controlling OF City Spirits -only-.
>
> So yes, it can be done. It is just done differently than before.

Bingo. He wouldn't specialize in 'Summoning City Spirits'. He'd
specialize in Conjuring: City Spirits. When summoning, banishing, or controlling
city spirits, he'd use his specialization. When summoning, banishing, or
controlling other spirits, he'd use his general skill.

--Sean

--
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Grad Student, Human-Computer Interaction | horse, and under the presentation
Georgia Institute of Technology | of that he shoots his wit."
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~smccrohan | _As You Like It_, Act 5 Sc 4
Message no. 6
From: Ed <equine@***********.COM>
Subject: Re: Magic Queation
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:46:22 -0600
At 03:38 PM 11/13/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Bingo. He wouldn't specialize in 'Summoning City Spirits'. He'd
>specialize in Conjuring: City Spirits. When summoning, banishing, or
>controlling city spirits, he'd use his specialization. When summoning,
>banishing, or controlling other spirits, he'd use his general skill.

Cool. Thanks for the help once again folks. That is how I was going to do
things but I wanted to make sure it was correct before screwing things up.

Ed




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