From:	Erik Jameson <erikj@****.COM>
Subject:	Re: focus & karma
Date:	Thu, 14 May 1998 18:08:29 -0400

At 10:31 PM 5/14/98 +0200, you wrote:
>Hoe- Hoe- Hoe, folks!

Uh oh, looks like another German invading the list... ;-)

>I´ve got a question concerning the bounding of focuses (foci?).
>Somewhere in the Grimoire it is said that for the first bondage you can
>reduce costs by using orichalkum, for example.
>Does this mean that
>A) The Guy who gets the focus first can reduce the karmacosts to nothing

Yes. Well, almost nothing. The Karma cost cannot be reduced to below zero.

>B) He´ll have to bound it for the first time (finishing the enchantment),
>but it has to be bounded again using the standard cost.

No. The person enchanting the focus, as a "reward" for spending time and
nuyen on creating the formula and then the focus itself, pays a reduced
Karma cost for bonding the focus.

I'll agree that it can be potentially unbalancing, but this sort of thing
in my experience tends to come into play with games that are already
high-powered. Regardless, this is something that the GM needs to keep
strick control over.

Erik J.

Guten Tag!