Tuesday, December 14, 2010

New Foci

More focus types:

Expendable Spirit Foci: Much like the expendable spell focus, you can select a kind of spirit (hearth spirit) and gain a number of dice equal to the force which can be used for a conjuring test or a drain test (or split).

Banishing Focus: This is a specific spirit focus that increases dice used in banishing tests.

Spirit Power Focus: Like a power focus, except that this only applies to tests involving spirits (conjuring, banishing, etc).

Centering Focus: This focus allows you to add its force to centering tests (using the centering metamagic technique), effectively allowing a mage with centering to add this as a suppliment to any magical skill.

Detection Focus: This focus aids in assensing tests (by adding extra dice to the intelligence test).

Defending Focus: This focus adds dice to use in spell defense, absorption, reflection, or shielding tests (the caster must have the appropriate metamagic techniques to use this fully)

Assisting Focus: This focus allows one mage to use his dice to suppliment another mage's casting of a spell, summoning of a spirit, etc. The assisting mage bonds to this focus and they must cast together. Both mages need not know the spell, or be able to cast the spirit (hermetic and shamans can assist each other) but must have appropriate dice (sorcery or conjuration, etc).

Dueling Focus: This focus applies additional dice for magic duels (mage v mage) both regular and scorched duels.

Fetished Focus: This is like a specific spell focus which acts as a fetish for a specific spell you know, allowing you to treat it as 1 force lower for drain purposes.

Dispelling Focus: This allows extra dice for dispelling tests.

Drain Focus: This focus provides dice for drain resistance tests.

Shielding/Reflecting/Defensive Focus: These provide dice to be used like a defending focus, except that each only profides a specific amount of dice and don't require the user to have the metamagic. (So a Force 5 reflecing focus automatically protects the user with 5 dice to reflect spells).

Masking Focus: this provides dice for masking test.

I will update this further with costs and karma costs, and perhaps modify this list with some combinations... but for now, here it is!

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