You can't do two manouvres with enchanted item but you can do a single tharmaturgical spell which creates multiple taggable aspects.

This seems to imply it's completely by-the-book then and legal...? Because you can put embed thaumaturgical spells into a slot?

I'd say you probably need to switch the skill selection to make it more BSG-appropriate anyways. Stress track setup and advancement are both fairly modular... should plug right into Diaspora without too much trouble, shouldn't it?

I haven't read Diaspora in a couple of years, but I remember it being a really slick piece of work.

First I can't believe you have the audacity to throw out a line like "they were trying to decide whether or not to harvest an npc's brain" and then leave me hanging with no more details. I have just spent the last fifteen minutes pondering the scenarios in your GI joe like universe. :p

LOL I was thinking the same. Brain harvesting! What the... I want in on this!

Hey guys, so how would you simulate a Force Pull with a spell? I want to pull something small into my hand from across a distance - is it just a spirit or air maneuver "Gotcha!" or is that more Thurmaturgical in nature?  What if it was a person who doesn't want to be pulled (then there is obviously an opposing roll in there somewhere)?

I'm mildly surprised it got past the nitpickers if it was a typo, since Neutral Grounds was thoroughly picked over by the folks here on this board That's why my first reaction was, I must be missing something.

I bet they grabbed Conviction instead of Lore as you guys think, b/c the math is spot on if that's the case.

Cheers for all the chime-in's, appreciate the helping hand!

'Morning folks.

The math on Diane's Cuppas on YS387 - how does she get a 5 shift potion effect?

I count 3:
2 from Lore
1 from her hazel wood wand

Thanks in advance...

My DM says that there is only one specialization for either Control or Complexity for conjuration or wards etc, OR Strength or Frequency for enchanted items, but I say these are two separate things.

They are separate things, i.e. let us say you have Thaumaturgy. On your Thaumaturgy specialization, you go with a +1 Crafting Strength.

You then get a Refinement and you go for two more specializations, so you grab another +1 Crafting Strength and a +1 Divination Complexity.

Your specialization list looks like this:

• Crafting +2 Strength
• Divination +1 Complexity

Note the pyramid - you cannot have a +2 without a +1 somewhere else.

You get a second Refinement, and again you get two more specializations. You want to get a +2 Frequency to Crafting, so you would look like this:

• Crafting +2 Strength
• Crafting +2 Frequency
• Divination +1 Complexity

... but again there's the accursed pyramid. So you ditch +1 in Crafting Frequency and put it into Divination Control instead. Your specializations now look like this:

• Crafting +2 Strength
• Crafting +1 Frequency
• Divination +1 Complexity
• Divination +1 Control

You'll have to wait for another Refinement to bring that Crafting Frequency up another +.

The discussion also involves the debate whether enchanted items belong exclusively to Thaumaturgy; or if you only have Evocation, could you make a ring of force like Dresden has? If you could, then the Crating Specialization is in effect, when you don't have Thaumaturgy, which makes Crafting Specialization and Thaumaturgy Specialization two separate things.

We await your input, thanks.

If you only have Evocation, you can still craft focus items. However, no enchanted items or potions for you.