From:	SLGMJ@***.BITNET
Subject:	Quickenings... House rules
Date:	Fri, 15 Jan 93 02:19:52 CET

This is just House rules so far as I know, but here's how we dealt
with quickenings and grounding spells through them...

1: It IS possible to ground a spell thru a Quickening/spell lock/
focus/Weapon or anything else bonded with Karma.
2: However, to do so, the caster has to pay KARMA equal to the
amount of Karma used to bond the item, then channel the
spell down the newly opened channel.

This kept initiates from being so free with their Quickening of
spells (the GM also ruled that the quickening left an astral trail to the
caster). This also gives a good reason to quicken spells at a higher force.
The harder a spell is to quicken, the harder it is to break the quickening.
With these rules, it was easy to break a spell lock, and hard (but
not impossible) to use a Power focus to channel spells.
This also gave players a GREAT reason to go on astral quests to
hide the links! An enemy would have to (A) perceive the link (B) Determine
the Metaplane to Quest to (C) Complete an astral quest of the same rating
as the one used to hide it. In the middle of a combat, the TN modifiers and
wounds you can very EASILY get with the new Astral Quest rules can be more
than enough to make an enemy mage decide his karma is better spent in other
ways. (A hermetic questing to an Initiate Shaman's Totem's plane could find
much more then he/she bargained for! - The Coyote Shaman gives an EVIL
grin - )
All in all, I thought the GM was pretty fair. Quickenings could still
be much cheaper than spell locks (especially for a money-poor group like
ours) but they weren't the same omnipotent cure-alls they were in the rules
(especially SRI).

Flames, questions, comments?

- Soren Blackshadow -

slgmj@**.usu.edu