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[Polaris]

Digital,

I think you are overstating the case. All that little quote means w/r/t using sorcery in astral combat means is that if you use sorcery as your unarmed combat skill, then you can not use it for spell casting or spell defense. It is very badly worded, however.

In short.

1. If you have three passes in astral combat, you could use sorcery in combat three times at full strength.

OR

2. You could use three spell casting actions.

OR

3. Any combination of the above. What you could not do, however, is use sorcery to fight off elementals then spell cast as well.

That's how I read it anyway. I also think it is dumb and confusing. Just say that sorcery acts as Unarmed Combat in astral space and be done with it.

-Polaris

[Rev]

The way to get something like a background skill for sorcery is with the centering metamagic.