Mage The Ascension Storytellers Handbook Pdf

As the title says, would a mage (according to the latest Revised edition) be able to use multiple applicable Foci for his Tradition/Sphere when casting an Effect in order to decrease the difficulty? The table in page 208 of the book mentions a general case with little detail however, as it may imply only mages having Arete >=6 who are using a Focus in their selected Spheres.

Moreover, the question can generate multiple sub-queries related to the imposed difficulty modifier: • Using more than one appropriate Foci for an Effect while Arete. While its been a while I can safely say 'Why not?' But remember that modifier cannot be lower than -3. Example: Dreamspeaker (and a voodoo priest) Midnight is trying to summon Papa Legba and plant him inside a host. He gathers his followers into ritual chamber. He whips them into frenzy with music and dance (first focus), lights hand made narcotic candles made from the fat of the dead (second focus - unique one) and and finally he sacrifices the black chicken (third foci).

I've gone back through Blood Treachery and the Mage Storytellers Handbook like several people suggested (seems I still had them in my library online). As I thought, they do have a lot of the rules I've cribbed for my homerules doc when it comes to Ascension/Masquerade.

While it was vulgar magic with observers with difficulty of ~9, now its only 6. Lets say that there is no rule saying that you can use only one foci. And your point as a mage is to convince reality to change and focus is a tool that helps to achieve it. When you reach arete 6 you DON'T NEED foci, but you still CAN use it since it will still work the same on the reality.

Its like with fixing an old rusty screw: if you are weak, you'd need tools (i.e. A spanner and a hammer) to move it, if you are strong you can use bare hands, but using such tools will STILL BE EASIER. – Feb 4 '15 at 8:32. As I have read the books in Spanish some 'lost in translation' could have happened (and seeing the quality of translations, I doubt it didn't happen).

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From what I know, the rules state that for each Sphere you require at last one Foci, but nothing sais you cannot have more than one (I believe they even encourage it). But that is not to say, that you can (or need to) use all of them for each Effect you cast. When you cast an Effect, you describe how you are going to do it, all the components/show/gestures that you put into scene can be described in two ways, each separately is a Foci, all together is the Foci. • – If your Arete is = 6), but I don’t think there are any rules about that (The Storyteller handbook could have more information about this, since I remember there is a chapter dedicated to this, but I don’t remember reading anything about loosing the need of your Foci and having a Unique Foci), anyway, using a Unique Foci AND a specialized Foci (because your effect uses multiple Foci if you think in that terms) could grant you -3 (-2 for the Unique and -1 for the specialized). I think it will be possible to stack a Specialized Foci -1 with the Using Foci when none is needed for another -1. I do not believe that you can do that with the Unique Foci, since it seems that you NEED to use it. If somehow you convince your storyteller that you don’t need to use your unique Foci (due to having Arete >= 6), it seems also reasonable that you will stack the -1 for using Foci when none is needed.

An example: You have Arete 6 and as a good Hermetic you have decided that Prime, Forces and Matter will not require Foci (I am not sure on the amount of Spheres that you can choose, bet lets say three for the sake of the argument). You then decide to good-old-Fireball something with good-old vulgar magic (Prime 2 Forces 3, lets not start an argument on “are this the Spheres required?”). You have your platinum crown (this Hermetics must be all rich!), blessed during a full moon cycle in the waters of your birthtown river (that will be the Specialized Foci) and your Obsidian Staff created from The Volcano Spirit and given to your family centuries ago (that will be your Unique Foci). Depending on your storyteller, the difficulty can range from: Lowest diff: Highest Sphere (3) + 5 (vulgar magic with witness) -1 for using crown when you don’t need to, -1 for using staff when you don’t need to, -1 for crown Specialized Foci, -2 for staff Unique Foci, for a total of 3 (and some paradox). Highest diff: Highest Sphere (3) + 5 (vulgar magic with witness), -1 for using Specialized Foci, -2 for using Unique Foci (it could be argued that it is only a -2 since you need both Foci to work, but I usually don’t go that way), you NEED to use your Unique Foci, because it is a Unique Foci and your Effects will simply won’t work without it, so you are not getting any bonus from ‘using Foci when you don’t need to’, for a total of diff 5 (and some paradox).