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At Evocation speeds and methods
Deadmanwalking:
--- Quote from: luminos on April 27, 2010, 06:12:40 PM ---Which circumstances are these?
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You're allowed to incur Sponsor Debt instead of Mental Stress if you desire. It's not in the current pre-release PDF, but iago has mentioned it a whole bunch of times.
--- Quote from: Victim on April 27, 2010, 06:13:39 PM ---Nothing explicitly references wards. However, if you can evoke a shield made of summer fire, why not a longer ward? Or create lasting plant growth (with super thorns) to do it? The domains of sponsored magic are more thematic than strictly mechanical categories.
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Because that's blatantly against the rules. What Evocation and Thaumaturgy effects Sponsored Magic can access are thematic and unspecified, but what Thaumaturgy effects can be used as Evocation are clearly stated, as are what creatures take additional damage. Saying you can use Warding with Seelie Magic is like saying you can suddenly use Biomancy with Unseelie Magic, or that Kemmlerian Necromancy suddenly reduces all vampires defensive abilities by one level...it just doesn't work that way, and is as much of a rules breach as suddenly having a new Evocation element for no reason.
KOFFEYKID:
"Like" does not mean "exactly the same as", also, it goes on to tell you exactly "Like" an evocation it is, and what changes must be made to the casting process.
Maroon is like red, only darker.
--- Quote from: Victim ---Nothing explicitly references wards. However, if you can evoke a shield made of summer fire, why not a longer ward? Or create lasting plant growth (with super thorns) to do it? The domains of sponsored magic are more thematic than strictly mechanical categories.
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--- Quote from: Page 288 ---With the power source, you get access to the listed set of thaumaturgic effects (often a thematic grouping of some sort) as a viable effect of an evocation spell. So you might be able to throw together a small ward quickly, summon a minor creature extra-quick, or cast a curse of decay with the flick of a wrist.
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Deadmanwalking:
Uh, yeah. That's in the general section. Nobody's saying that some variety of Sponsored Magic couldn't do Wards...just that none of the listed ones (except Soulfire) can.
Korwin:
Btw. Soulfire.
To be honest I dont like it as Sponsored Magic.
Because per the books, you use your own soul. So you would get a Dept to your Soul? How much dept do you need, to be empty of your Soul?
KnightFerrous:
--- Quote from: Korwin on April 27, 2010, 07:27:50 PM --- So you would get a Dept to your Soul? How much dept do you need, to be empty of your Soul?
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Part of the dept Compels are your own soul, remember how harry is exhasuted after using soulfire? dept cash in. There are also personality depts (the book mentions you hunting a demon when you really should be resting as an example) and Sponsor compels (the angels come giving you a job to do)
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