Help With Wording of Attunement (Item) Metamagic Options Track this topic Email this topic Print this topic Download this topic Subscribe to this forum Display Modes Outline Switch to: Standard Switch to: Linear+

[Umidori]

Just want to make sure I'm reading this correctly.

Attunement metamagic applies only to one specific type of object (e.g., Attunement (Bike)). If an adept wants to attune a different item, she must learn the technique again. The adept may only attune a number of individual items equal to her initiate grade, and she may not receive benefits from more than one attuned item in a single action.

First off - when they say "if an adept wants to attune a different item" they mean "if an adept wants to attune a different type of object", yes? Or in other words, if you want to be able to attune both Blades and Pistols, you have to learn a separate attunement technique for each. You'd think they'd have just kept the prior sentence's word choice for clarity, no?

Second - when they say "the adept may only attune a number of individual items equal to her initiate grade", this time they actually mean individual items and not individual types of object? This seems odd. Why would you need to limit this? If someone has two dozen pistols that they want to attune to themselves, why shouldn't they be able to? You're already limited by the karma cost per item, so why the further limitation?

Third - when they say the adept "may not receive benefits from more than one attuned item in a single action", do they again actually mean individual items, or are they back to meaning individual types of object? It kinda-sorta of makes sense to say that if you're firing your attuned SMG while riding your attuned motorcycle, you only get a bonus for one of them, but to say you can only benefit from the attunement of a single item per action? What if you're dual-wielding attuned katanas? Only one benefits you?

Because if so, this seems like something of a waste of a metamagic technique. It's a dice pool bonus that only equals half your intiate grade, that applies only to specific items, which costs karma, which also turns the items into material links to your person, it doesn't stack with itself, it only becomes efficient at high ranks of the technique, and it isn't a prerequisite for any Advanced Metamagic?

The only real usage I could see for this is Attuning a weapon focus for a sort of "double bonus" with restrictions, but I don't see many people bothering to put enough ranks into this for that to do much.

~Umi

[Makki]

so, you agree, once I attuned to a HE grenade I just bought, I can use it, wherein it gets destroyed and then I by a new one, for which I will get my bonus as well?

So far, melee adepts can use foci, gun adepts can use Attunement and Smartlink, but Throwing Adepts didn't have a way to get more dice.