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Ink Slinger:
Well no I have not, however a shield isn't the only defensive magic I can conceive. 

Let's say a character has something less narrowly defined, like a wand.  Unless I'm thinking about a focus wrong, it's intended purpose is to aid in the focusing of said magic.  Could it not then be used for both offense and defense?

Archmage_Cowl:
from what ive seen yes it could. But it has to pick one or the other for one slot.

Cripple X:

--- Quote from: iago on April 12, 2010, 02:31:03 AM ---YS256 is stating a generalized, shortened version of what YS278 gets into the details of. YS278 is correct. I'll review YS256 and see what I can do to make that less confusing.

The intent is that neither is technically incorrect; offensive power is a Conviction bonus, offensive control is a Discipline bonus, etc, the circumstances of when you get that bonus just happen to be described specifically.

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That's what I assumed, but I wanted to check.  It was a little ambiguous to me.  Thanks for such a timely response thread.

iago:

--- Quote from: Ink Slinger on April 12, 2010, 02:39:50 AM ---Well no I have not, however a shield isn't the only defensive magic I can conceive. 

Let's say a character has something less narrowly defined, like a wand.  Unless I'm thinking about a focus wrong, it's intended purpose is to aid in the focusing of said magic.  Could it not then be used for both offense and defense?

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That less narrowly defined item likely uses multiple focus item slots and therefore contains multiple bonuses on it, both offense bonuses and defense bonuses. As someone already noted up top, this is possible -- it just takes multiple slots.

iago:

--- Quote from: Cripple X on April 12, 2010, 02:43:39 AM ---That's what I assumed, but I wanted to check.  It was a little ambiguous to me.  Thanks for such a timely response thread.

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I doublechecked the earlier paragraph; it does reference forward to the crafting section, but not with enough direction, i.e., it doesn't say "to learn more about the types of bonuses..." or something similar as a lead-in. That is fixed.

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