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or maybe he had their True Name.
Likely whenever the spell effect you're going for can't be encapsulated within the casting strength limits of an enchanted item.So it depends on the Caster.
As for the comparison, consider that Harry thought he could make a Hexenwulf belt. People don't think that kind of thing about the Swords.I think thats the reason why I thougth about them as Magic Item and not as Item of Power.
I do, however, think we need brief guidelines for Thaumaturgical shapeshifting. It's probably not gonna be available in the midst of combat without buying some other power, but it's clearly an available ability in the setting, and some basic guidelines on difficulty seem somewhat necessary.+1
Yeah, sometimes the situation goes well beyond what the small scale items (i.e., enchanted items et al) system can do and has to extend into powers and refresh cost. Nature of the beast. If we had to make it so every magical effect ever could be encapsulated in the crafted items subsystem of spellcraft, you'd still be waiting on the RPG to go into preorder... for another year.
I'm glad it helped Korwin, your character turned out awesome! I love the idea of sealing summoned creatures into the painting.
Lore - Arcane Research - Arcane Library
Lore - Arcane Spellwork & - Ritual Arcane SanctumAs described in Scholarship (see page 142), the quality of a workplace determines the highest possible difficulty of a “question” or project that you can pursue there.
As such, deeper, dedicated research is something that might happen when you fail a Scholarship check. Provided you are willing to spend time researching (and that the answer can be found), the only questions are how long it will take you and how good a workspace you have access to (usually a library for book things, a laboratory for experimental research, etc.) to discover the answer.
The quality of these workspaces determines the hardest possible question you can answer within them (so a question of Good difficulty requires a Good library or better).
My sample will be an Air-Spirit who is supposed to carry the summoner around.
I’ll give the Spirit
- inhuman Strenght
- Wings
- Veils aka. Glamours (so nobody is wondering about that flying wizard…)
What conviction should that being have? I’ll go with Superb +5 for the example…
Containment:
5 + 4 +2 for an Aspect to be on the save side is an +12 complexity containment.
Summoning
Would be the same +12 complexity.
Binding
Binding is a full conflict.
We need (+4 for lucky dice, +4 for stress boxes, +22 for all conditions [inkluding extreme condition], +5 to extend the duration of afternoon to a month) a +35 complexity ritual.
Casting that thing would’nt be that hard, if we play it save (+1 per exchange) and took our time.
Researching it would need many declarations or skipped scenes…
... the quality of a workplace determines the highest possible difficulty of a “question” or project that you can pursue there.
Airline pilots who've flown thousands of hours still have to go through the preflight checklist every time.
Some tasks just need that kind of preparation, and the time you don't do it could prove fatal.
Reading the example now.
In this example its only a strong opposed skill (so no extra mild consequences), but why are 10 shifts needed to fill up the physical stress boxes?
(And Endurance isnt really calculated in...)
The target dies instantly as his heart explodes from his chest, assuming that a 32-stress attack does the trick—an extreme, severe, moderate, and mild consequence for a total of 20 shifts, plus 10 shifts to fill up a strong physical stress track (4+3+2+1) plus two more shifts for good measure to ensure a “taken out” result.In this example its only a strong opposed skill (so no extra mild consequences), but why are 10 shifts needed to fill up the physical stress boxes?
Sells needed to do some significant preparation to cast this.At the moment (unless I miss something) the rules dont support this.
Hey Korwin, I'm still learning the rules myself but Ill take a fair shot at some of this. I won't answer anything that I'm not too sure on as I don't have the time to look stuff up in the rule book right now.Thanks for the answers, even if I dont agree, by talking about it many things get clearer.
You would need to do it again. In terms of game mechanics the preparation and the research is what makes up the difference between your wizards capabilities and the requirement of the spell. You'd still need to make up that difference again to cast the spell. In terms of narrative colour Harry still has to replace items used in rituals, meditate & prepare himself, wait for certain times of day etc all of which are things that can be used during the research phase to help. For example: Contacts roll to get the items, dicipline to meditate and prepare and tagging a scene aspect for the times of day.You brought up Victor Sells, did he research his spell new after each casting?
My first reaction to this is to say no. A player could just repeatedly roll their top skill to meet the requirements of the spell. Perhaps if they could frame it differently?
I don't think it has to be magical.Yeah, I think thats an typoFurther more in the example on page YS:301 it gave +2 bonus as a component.(click to show/hide)
As for the Law, I would say no. The laws seem there to protect "mortals" in the sense of humans and you wouldn't be killing it by magic for the ritual.
Correct, that is the safes minimum except that 5+4+2=11.
I remember this being in one of the examples. Just to point out, incase you took it from one of the examples and didnt realise, that it is at 20 due to the extra mild consequence from having such high conviction.No I counted. But I missed the extra mild consequence so it would be +22 for the consequences +26 if the target has the stunt for 2 extra mild consequences.