From:	Midn Daniel O Fredrikson <m992148@****.NAVY.MIL>
Subject:	Re: Conjuring
Date:	Tue, 3 Dec 1996 00:53:28 -0500

> At 06:43 AM 12/2/96 -0500, Midn Daniel O Fredrikson wrote:
> >Anyone have any ideas for ritual or group conjuring of spirits or
> >elementals?
> >
> Ummm, what are you looking for? Ideas for what? Runs based around ritual
> conjurings? Or are you looking for good descriptions of how this works, or
> what?
>
> Sorry... Need more input please...:):)
>
> Bull
>
Not exactly sure... Just been thinking about conjuring vs sorcery (bad
move, I know) and it seems like conjuring is a much less flexable system.
Sorcery has spells, ritual spells, spell foci, power foci, ect, ect, ect.
Conjuring has conjuring and specific spirit foci. If you want to get
better at conjuring, the only think you can do is burn karma raising your
conjuring skill (unless you are a druid). I just think it is weird, the
desparity between the two.

Back to the subject..Ritual conjuring. In ritual sorcery, you can combine
the power of all the magic pools, plus foci, plus elementals, plus
background count, plus the phase of the moon and the price of rice in
china, and get enormous spells. SOunds cool and all, but I think althings
considered, if I had that many magicians together, I would rather conjure
up a massive spirit and let it handle the problem. At least that would
provide a little more variaty. COuld provide for some interesting
adventure ideas...group of mages try to convince enourmous metaplanar
entiyie to aid them while their sam bretheren try to hold off enemies who
are trying to disrupt to summoning. Bad things happen it the magicians
lose control.

End ranting about conjuring's shortcomings.