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Friggas Ring
post Jul 20 2004, 04:17 PM
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I consider myself pretty familiar with the magic system in Shadowrun, but something about the wording for Centering and Totem Bonuses has me confused.

Let's say I get a 2-Dice bonus to combat spells from my totem. I have learned Centering and have a pretty good centering skill. Confronted by two gangers, I decide to take them both out in one hit. Splitting up my Sorcery dice evenly (assuming I have a skill of 6), I use 3 dice for a Stunbolt at one ganger and 3 dice for a Stunbolt for the other ganger.

In the description of Totem bonuses, it says that I apply the two dice after everything else, so do I the two dice to each spell or do I divide it up amongst the spells I cast that round? While I realize GMs have the final say, it would seem really broken if I could cast one spell per turn per sorcery die, using one die for each spell and then gaining my totem modifier on top of it.

I have pretty much the same question about centering. If centering for successes is a Free action, could you center for each spell you cast at once? Granted, you would still need to succeed with the actual Sorcery die you roll, but if you cast six spells each with one die, some of them are going to succeed.

I'll take opinions and comments, but if anyone could canonically prove that a player could or could not do it, that'd be great.

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- Friggas Ring   Applying Centering & Totem Bonuses   Jul 20 2004, 04:17 PM
- - Dashifen   This is all IMO so YMMV (whee, acronyms): 1) I...   Jul 20 2004, 04:32 PM
- - BitBasher   First off, by canon totem dice are not a pool, it ...   Jul 20 2004, 04:41 PM
- - Friggas Ring   QUOTE (BitBasher) You get them for casting every t...   Jul 20 2004, 05:02 PM
- - BitBasher   QUOTE Well, techincally, you can use the totem dic...   Jul 20 2004, 05:08 PM
- - Friggas Ring   Bit, if what you say about the bonuses is true, I...   Jul 20 2004, 05:12 PM
- - BitBasher   QUOTE Bit, if what you say about the bonuses is tr...   Jul 20 2004, 05:27 PM
- - Friggas Ring   Ah ha! Thanks, Bit. I knew I had to be missing...   Jul 20 2004, 06:20 PM
- - OurTeam   I haven't yet found the words in the book that...   Jul 20 2004, 08:24 PM
- - OurTeam   QUOTE (BitBasher)if you cast more than one spell i...   Jul 20 2004, 08:31 PM
- - BitBasher   I'm at work now, hence my referring to the oth...   Jul 20 2004, 08:41 PM
- - OurTeam   Regarding the Centering question, I would not allo...   Jul 20 2004, 08:41 PM
- - BitBasher   QUOTE (OurTeam) QUOTE (BitBasher)if you cast more ...   Jul 20 2004, 08:57 PM
- - Luke Hardison   This made me read the portions of the BBB that cov...   Jul 20 2004, 09:36 PM
- - Jason Farlander   I am inclined to agree with Luke here... the secti...   Jul 20 2004, 09:41 PM
- - Glyph   The only Totem to have a bonus to Drain rolls is t...   Jul 21 2004, 05:54 AM
- - BitBasher   okay, I can't knock that logic.   Jul 21 2004, 06:29 AM
- - Necrotic Monkey   You do not get to use Sorcery with Drain Resistanc...   Jul 21 2004, 07:33 AM
- - Dashifen   QUOTE (Glyph) The only Totem to have a bonus to Dr...   Jul 21 2004, 01:13 PM
- - Necrotic Monkey   QUOTE Imagine a Dragonslayer shaman who decides to...   Jul 21 2004, 03:35 PM
- - TinkerGnome   Totem bonuses apply to spell defense? Since when ...   Jul 21 2004, 07:13 PM
- - Luke Hardison   QUOTE (TinkerGnome) Totem bonuses apply to spell d...   Jul 21 2004, 07:17 PM
- - TinkerGnome   Got a page quote for that? I skimmed through and ...   Jul 21 2004, 08:08 PM
- - Necrotic Monkey   It's been quoted several times. SR3, p. 163, ...   Jul 21 2004, 09:52 PM
- - TinkerGnome   That's an... interesting interpretation. I...   Jul 21 2004, 10:52 PM


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