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DFRPG / Re: Questions on Seelie Magic
« on: November 03, 2011, 10:19:57 PM »'Safely' is a relative term.
He can 'safely' call up that power in that it will cost him only a single mental stress to do so. Whether he can then control that power without having to resort to backlash or fallout is another matter, and one that is in the hands of the Dice Gods, though the odds are not in his favour.
It is hypothetically possible for any character with channeling or evocation (or a sponsored version thereof, for that matter) to create a rote of an arbitrarily high power level. The spell being a rote merely means that the character is assumed to have rolled 0 on the dice for controlling the power. If that's insufficient to the power they called up, well, good luck with that.
Yeah, I've got a player with a rote five above what he can control with a zero control roll. He fills his 4th mental stress bubble and invokes an aspect every time he uses it. He's planning on changing it next time I let him to use both physical and mental stress tracks to boost it a little more.