From:	William Monroe Ashe <wma6617@****.TAMU.EDU>
Subject:	Re: [SR3] Conjuring
Date:	Mon, 28 Jul 1997 18:36:49 -0500

On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, John E Pederson wrote:

> Summoning:
> Summoning Drain is figured by replacing Magic with Charisma in
> the chart on pg140 of SR2. Drain is resisted with Willpower and any dice
> thrown in from the newly-created Conjuring Pool.
> To summon a spirit, the magician rolls his/her Charisma, plus any
> allocated dice from the Conjuring Pool, against a target number equal to
> the spirit's force, modified only by wound modiiers or geas modifiers
> (under SR2). The summoning magician may throw in up to his Magic Rating
> in dice from his Conjuring Pool. Every two successes equals one service.


Hold it; if you replace the conjuring "skill" with naked charisma, then
what is the point of having that skill at all. I like this idea, but leave
it as a skill test, and not as a charisma test.


just my 0.02

-Bill