From:	Mongoose <m0ng005e@*********.COM>
Subject:	Re: Expendable Spell Focus are Inexpensive?
Date:	Wed, 3 Feb 1999 13:05:32 -0600

:Mongoose wrote:
:<snip discussion>
:> Hmm, I'm not sure about the foci addiction, which is based of
ACTIVE
:> foci.
:
:BTW, how do you count sustaining spell foci concerning to
:focus addiction.
:In SR2 they have been force 1. Now they have the force of
:the spell (or
:the maximum force possible). This is a serious impact on the
:rule with
:focus addiction.

Yeah, It would. We haven't had both (grimoire rules and SR3 rules) in
the same game yet, so it hasn't come up.
The change to sustaining foci WAS intended to tone down those easily
sutained spells, but a force 4 sutaining focus doesn't seem as powerful /
"unbalanced" as a force 4 power focus.

:I count them as they're still force 1 until MitS comes out
:though it's not
:with the rules.


Maybe divide the force of Sustaining Foci by 3 for "addiction"
purposes, since a spell lock "becomes" a force 3 sustaining Focus?
I think some factor for the bonding cost of a focus could go into how
"addictive" it is, but that would make the (presently simple) rules pretty
complicated.

Mongoose