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Message no. 1
From: Luke Kendall <luke@********.CANON.OZ.AU>
Subject: Power Foci (Was: Re: Totem Modifiers)
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 1994 13:36:33 +1000
Marc A Renouf wrote:

> [...] The power focus does NOT add to your
> magic attribute. It only raises your magic attribute for the purposes of
> determining how high the force can be before you take physical damage and
> how many dice you can use to augment a spell. It does not add for
> purposes of range determination, target number for magic loss (deadly
> wound or stim patch), threshhold for piercing a Masking, or anything
> else.

I thought it _did_ increase area of effect, and range. Are you sure
about this for area and range?

luke
Message no. 2
From: Marc A Renouf <jormung@*****.UMICH.EDU>
Subject: Re: Power Foci (Was: Re: Totem Modifiers)
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 1994 12:49:38 -0400
On Tue, 5 Jul 1994, Luke Kendall wrote:

> Marc A Renouf wrote:
>
> > [...] The power focus does NOT add to your
> > magic attribute. It only raises your magic attribute for the purposes of
> > determining how high the force can be before you take physical damage and
> > how many dice you can use to augment a spell. It does not add for
> > purposes of range determination, target number for magic loss (deadly
> > wound or stim patch), threshhold for piercing a Masking, or anything
> > else.
>
> I thought it _did_ increase area of effect, and range. Are you sure
> about this for area and range?
>
> luke
>

Matbe it does...Tim Skirvin quoted a rule to me from SRII, but I don't
have my Grimoire here. I'll hafta check.

Marc

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