Message no. 1

From:	Steve Kenson <TalonMail@***.COM>
Subject:	Re: [SR3] Hermetic Circles, Shamanic Lodges
Date:	Tue, 18 Aug 1998 10:35:21 EDT

Max Rible <slothman@*********.ORG>
>The language in SR3 on hermetic circles is a bit vague. At one point,
>they're referred to as only being astral barriers when in use, but
>later seem to be in the same category of semipermanent barriers as
>shamanic lodges. Are they now useful for privacy as well as rituals?

Hermetic circle are (should be) astral barriers only while being used for a
ritual (either summoning or ritual sorcery).

>Is the requirement on the time to draw a temporary circle new, or have I
>just been missing it all these years? It certainly adds to the time
>for conjuring elementals, and creates a market for Rent-A-Conjuring-Circle
>places in the shadows...

Nope, it's always taken (Rating) hours to draw a circle, even since SR1.

>BTW, is there a limit to the Rating of shamanic lodge that a shaman
>can create, or Rating of circle a Hermetic with sufficient amounts of
>space can draw?

Offically? No. However, you are free to limit things in your campaign as
desired. Just because there's no limit specificed in the book doesn't mean you
have to allow a shaman PC to have that Rating 20 medicine lodge for 10,000
nuyen. I generally use a character's Magic attribute as a measure of how much
he can "handle" magically in terms of constructs like lodges and circles,
YMMV.

Steve