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Spellcasting and Stress
Belmonte:
--- Quote from: LCDarkwood on April 08, 2010, 08:43:43 AM ---* Harry has been (click to show/hide)using sponsored magic in the form of hellfire and soulfire for several books now. One of the benefits of sponsorship is that the sponsor can pay the costs for you. That gives him the ability to do extra stuff without taxing himself, at the cost of sponsor debt. After the line I quoted above, note that he brings Hellfire to the party pretty much *every* time he does anything magical for the rest of the fight. This is one reason why it's difficult to be a "pure" wizard and play in higher leagues of supernatural power.
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Question on this. The book says the sponsor can 'pay the costs' for a spell, then goes on to list one thing: once per roll, the sponsor can give you a free tag on an aspect without paying a fate point, this gives you debt. Are you saying that one could also have the sponsor instead of doing this, eat a point or two of stress for the spell for debt as well?
If so, this makes sense. I just don't see it in the book other than the vague 'pay the costs'. :) I wanna be sure I got this right, I'm going to be doing a game with wizards and one of my players wants to eventually be Mab's bitch. Er. Swear a pact with Mab. :)
SaintAndSinner:
--- Quote from: Belmonte on April 08, 2010, 04:53:37 PM ---Question on this. The book says the sponsor can 'pay the costs' for a spell, then goes on to list one thing: once per roll, the sponsor can give you a free tag on an aspect without paying a fate point, this gives you debt. Are you saying that one could also have the sponsor instead of doing this, eat a point or two of stress for the spell for debt as well?
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I'm curious about this also. I'd say yes in my game but not sure if this is in the RAW.
Belmonte:
--- Quote from: SaintAndSinner on April 08, 2010, 05:07:05 PM ---I'm curious about this also. I'd say yes in my game but not sure if this is in the RAW.
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Yeah, me too. By one reading it works -- you pay the cost and can also get a free tag (An aspect tag isn't a cost of the spell itself really). By another reading, that's the cost it pays and that's all.
I kind of like letting the person get debt. The compels are fun and I'd say 1-2 stress is about equal to a fate point, I /think/. But I wanna know what's RAW and what's not. :)
LCDarkwood:
Yeah, check out "The Dark Powers" sidebar - I'd head that under "draw more than a single invocation" stuff.
And I'd consider the once per session/scene limit thing a suggestion, rather than a rule.
(In other words, I'm telling you that it might read a bit differently when it goes to print and we update the PDF.)
-Lenny
Walker_Blade:
Question: The mental armor 1 provided by the Conviction stunt Tower of faith would reduce spellcasting stress wouldn't it? and we know from the books that one can have faith in magic, so as long as you did the equivalent of praying (probably a quick meditation or an extended drawing up of power) you could cast the easy stuff basically at will.
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