From:	Caric <caric@********.COM>
Subject:	Re: [SR3] Spell Rituals
Date:	Wed, 9 Jul 1997 09:27:38 -0700

Swiftone wrote:

| > Incantation
| > Talisman
| > GEASA
| > CENTERING
|
| Ok. Unlike Caric, I think using those last two as "countable towards
| multibple" works, because of the added penalty (you have to be
| initiated to get Centering, and you get a +2 if you don't fulfill the
| geasa)

Hmmm...I may be misreading this, but I do think that someone should be able
to use their geas and other rituals at the same time, but I don't think
that if gesturing is a caster geas that they should get a -1 to drain
target as well as fulfill the geas with it. If they want to gesture to
fulfill the geas and then cast the spell exclusively then more power to
them.

| Otherwise it will be a long debate about using Centering vs. Using
| the ritual....IT would pretty much kill centering, since you would
| need a very high Centering Skill to make it worth giving up the
| rituals.

First before I forget does centering count as it's own "magical activity?"
Can someone center when casting an exclusive spell?

Again with centering I say they can do it and other rituals, but the
centering itself should count as one of the ritual. I shouldn't be able to
center for successes and because my centering skill is gesturing I also get
a -1 to drain TN...cantering is already "using" the gestures as part of it
I say.

-Caric

"If a man talks in the forest, and there isn't a woman around to hear him,
is he still wrong?"