 4th Ed. Sustaining focus question |
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 Oct 24 2013, 12:52 AM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 344 Joined: 28-July 03 Member No.: 5,133  |
I seem to recall reading this once but I cannot find any reference to it at this time.
If a sustaining focus is active and sustaining a spell and the mage deactivates the focus. Will the spell still be there when he reactivates the focus? Thanks in advance, been a few years and I foolishly decide now was the time for another SR campaign... brushing up on a few things. |
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Oct 24 2013, 12:57 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,962 Joined: 27-February 13 Member No.: 76,875 |
Not unless he chose to sustain it himself for the time being...
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Oct 24 2013, 01:02 AM
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The back-up plan Group: Retired Admins Posts: 8,423 Joined: 15-January 03 From: San Diego Member No.: 3,910 |
Sunday_Gamer--Nope, if the focus is deactivated the spell is lost. Once the focus is reactivated, a spell of the appropriate type can be cast again.
RHat--I don't see anything that allows a character to transfer the spell out of the focus to their own concentration. When the spell is cast, it is cast through the focus and the focus holds it. |
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Oct 24 2013, 01:08 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,962 Joined: 27-February 13 Member No.: 76,875 |
Hm, so it seems - and you can't sustain it yourself and transfer it later. Would handle it differently in anything I'm running (find this simply too inflexible), but there it is I suppose.
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Oct 26 2013, 10:43 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 598 Joined: 12-October 05 Member No.: 7,835 |
QUOTE (RHat @ Oct 23 2013, 08:08 PM)  Hm, so it seems - and you can't sustain it yourself and transfer it later. Would handle it differently in anything I'm running (find this simply too inflexible), but there it is I suppose. It's there to stop magicians from abusing spell sustaining. Lots of things make sustaining spells long term infeasible. |
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