Can /I/ just say that it's incredibly great having you designer guys answering questions for us?   It's really good service, and I appreciate it.  I'm tempted to buy another set of books to give as a gift, in thanks.

Oh yes.

That makes total sense!

I was more thinking of something Harry said in Dead Beat, I think.  An older, more skilled wizard will take the same amount of power and do /more/ with it.  I figured a high Discipline roll would model that well.

It seems to me that Overflow should have an impact on magic.  The base rule is you can use Overflow for another action, but it cannot be an extra attack or anything.

Would it work by RAW for the GM to say, when a magician tries to cast a spell and they get overflow, allow the player to apply that overflow to duration?  You can 'extend' a spell effect by re-casting it as per the Spellcasting section (Prolonging Effects), so basically you'd be doing a secondary roll to prolong the effect rather than re-attacking or such.

So, example: Carlos is casting his Water Shield and spends 5 Shifts.  He rolls Epic (+7).  The shield goes off, and with the Overflow of +2, it'll last for 2 more rounds.

Viable?  Not viable?

I like it, though I might make it slightly more complicated.

Something like: For every shift you get over their roll, it'll last one round (unless they remove it).  So if you roll a Superb (+5) and they roll a Good (+3), it'll last 2 rounds.  Less, if they spend a maneuver trying to remove the thing.

* Harry has been

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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.

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.

*laughs*  Your Story, sorry.

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I Pre-Ordered this and have to say -- the banter in the margins is hil-ar-i-ous!  Did you have Jim help you out with that, Iago?  I swear, a lot of the comments 'feel' like Harry and Bob.

I'm kind of hoping someone here starts a PbP or PbChat game.