Spells and Edge, (Re-rolls too) Options

[Tomothy]

Brought up in another thread was that mages cannot roll more hits than the force of the spell they're casting. The exception to this being edge. Now does this mean if you add edge then all the hits count? Or that you have to roll edge seperately and they count regardless of whether or not you've already rolled hits equal to the force of the spell?

Confusing? Example:

Little Timmy is rolling to cast manabolt at force 5. He rolls 5 for his magic, 5 for his spellcasting and 2 for his mentor spirit = 12 dice. He is also rolling 4 edge dice.

For his normal dice he rolls: 6, 4, 4, 5, 6, 3, 4, 2, 4, 4, 5, 3

Then he re-rolls two dice and gets: 5, 5

This gives him a total of six hits.

For his edge dice he rolls: 3, 5, 4, 6

Then he re-rolls one dice and gets: 5

This gives him a total of three edge hits.

How many hits do you think Timmy gets? I'm guessing it's max five hits from non-edge dice plus three hits from edge dice for a total of eight hits.

Still too confusing?