From:	Caric <caric@********.COM>
Subject:	Re: [SR3] Spell Rituals
Date:	Thu, 10 Jul 1997 08:46:39 -0700

| > For this particular gem i would increase the bonuses it infers. It
could
| > really help with that mind probe spell when it's doing 12D drain at
force
| > 6. Maybe "preparation" (I agree it needs a better name, but I
couldn't
| > think of one either :) could lower drain catagory by one and the TN by
2,
| > but it would take several minutes to prepare...like say force+1D6
miutes.

| In some circles (a pun!?!) the term is known as "Entailment" instead of
| Preparation. Something I have done in the past for the Preparation of
some
| things, such as Ritual Sites and Conjuring circles, is that the number of
net
| successes achieved on the preparation work is usable as a bonus magic
pool
| for the operation itself.

Hey that's not a bad idea...not bad at all. It's true that mages have
always had to set up those darn circles, but nothing was ever really done
with them.

-Caric

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