| From: | Seth Fogarty aravthamis@*****.com |
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| Subject: | Foci |
| Date: | Wed, 3 Feb 1999 19:25:33 -0800 (PST) |
(chicago) server am getting through to this list fine. For those of
you unaware, NWU is really bad with computers. They don't even publish
class schedules on the web until after the semester/quarter (depends
on which college you go to) starts.
2) Let me see if I understand sustaining foci and why you wouldn't
want to have them constantly active and why they are not insanely
powerful in SR3.
<SR newbie talk>
1) If you loose it, someone with it can trace you anywhere and
recognize it as yours if they've seen you before.
2) Every time you deactivate it, you have to recast the spell when you
activate it, suffering the drain and everything.
3) While it is active, it can be attacked from the astrall plane and
hence: supressed (temporarily deactivated) and even destroyed. It can
be targetted with magic or attacked manually. If destroyed, it's gone.
4) While it it active you are very noticable to the astral plane.
Assuming you are not a magician, it makes you stand out like you were
one.
Therefor: You should only keep them active when you are going to need
them. You should not leave it lying around in your appartment, in case
someone breaks in. It is highly expensive and walking around with it
constantly active can end up in you having to buy it again and re-bond
it. The less you pay to rebond it (the less force), the easier it is
to get broken. This is not good. Therefor: Use sparingly.
I get this right? Are they still unbalancing? I have my Wolf Shaman
with a force 3 Increase Reflexes +3 focus. (I refuse to learn and cast
increase reflexes +3 at anything less than three force. It strikes me
as loop-hole-ing otherwise. not to mention it makes my foci that bit
harder to supresse and a good deal harder to destroy.) And, of course,
Increase Reflexes +3 at force 3. I am trying to convince myself that I
am not being blatant powergamer (I reduces his flaws/edges below the
10 point mark. Took away all the extra attributes. i'm trying!
really!). And, well, wanted to make sure I had this right. It's been a
long day.
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