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 Jun 26 2006, 07:26 PM
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I noticed in MiTS that you can purchase a prebonded anchoring focus. I don't have my books with me so I am doing this from memory. A prebonded reuseable anchoring focus Rating 1 for Increase Reflexes +3 would cost 150,000 :nuyen: base price. If memory serves me correctly the Availabilty would be low enough you could purchase it at character generation thus bypassing the Street Index of 4. Of course you need to have a mage in your group to recast the spell for you each time you use it. Any decent shadowrunner team needs at least one mage anyway so this might be workable. The idea has disadvantages but I think the zero essence cost for many characters could outweigh the disadvantages. Heck for characters that aren't primary combat types an expendable anchoring focus might be just great. I'll have to check what a rating 1 prebonded expendable anchoring focus would cost. I think it might be 1500 x 5 = 7500.
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Jun 26 2006, 10:33 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 351 Joined: 17-February 05 Member No.: 7,093 |
too expensive, and not really worth it at all. If your mage is going to have the spell anyways, buy a Force 1 Sustaining focus for it, get the mage to bond it with the karma from the first run, and then do it that way. only 15,000 nuyen, and it WAY easier to manage than an anchoring focus.
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Jun 26 2006, 11:33 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957 |
And of course there's the inability of enemy casters to dispel wired reflexes.
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Jun 27 2006, 05:32 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 122 Joined: 27-June 06 Member No.: 8,791 |
And the inability of all sorts of sensors to detect a magical effect. Six of one, half dozen of the other. It's certainly an option for mages and adepts at the least, or anyone that just plain doesn't want cyberware.
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Jun 27 2006, 12:37 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957 |
Except astral ones. Any place sensitive enough to require cyberware sensors will probably also have some sort of astral presence as well. |
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Jun 27 2006, 02:04 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 70 Joined: 7-December 05 Member No.: 8,056 |
That's a very good point. And definetly cheaper. As long as your mage is willing to donate karma to other characters and use up precious points of foci that will work. |
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Jun 27 2006, 03:42 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,028 Joined: 9-November 02 From: The Republic of Vermont Member No.: 3,581 |
Trying to get your Increase Reflexes focus through wards intact is enough of a pain when you can see into the Astral, Mask your foci, and recast the spell when necessary. As a mundane, I bet you wouldn't get that focus through your first run intact.
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Jun 27 2006, 05:12 PM
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Use the same MitS rules and pay 5000 nuyen for an NPC mage to pay the first bonding cost to bond it to your PC magician. Total 20,000 nuyen. Still contributes to focus addiction. |
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Jun 27 2006, 05:58 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 351 Joined: 17-February 05 Member No.: 7,093 |
the first bonding cost has to be paid partially by the magician it's being bonded to. A F1 sustaining focus has a bonding cost of 1 karma. you'd just be wasting nuyen.
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Jun 28 2006, 07:46 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 56 Joined: 17-June 04 Member No.: 6,409 |
:proof: The enchanter can pay the entire first bonding cost, essentially bonding it to himself. If he wants to bond it to someone else, they only need be present at the first bonding. The person the focus is being bonded to, other than the enchanter, may pay some or all of the bonding cost. Note the RAW do not say must. (MitS.44) So, I fail to see the requirement you are imposing. |
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Jun 28 2006, 11:38 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 351 Joined: 17-February 05 Member No.: 7,093 |
you're right, I misread 'may' as 'must'.
My point still stands, it's a waste of nuyen. Buy the damn focus off the shelf (it's legal) and have the mage bond it himself for the huge, incredible, massive, unbeleivable price of one (1) good karma. Going through the enchanter is idiotic at this low force, and more expensive in every way at higher forces. |
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Jun 29 2006, 10:11 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,640 Joined: 6-June 04 Member No.: 6,383 |
I am still really upset at how they took out grounding. These foci were awesome when they could just act as a magnet for force 8 Hellblasts.
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Jun 29 2006, 11:11 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957 |
Grounding has been gone for a loooong time. Get over it or reintroduce it. :)
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Jun 30 2006, 01:47 AM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 11,410 Joined: 1-October 03 From: Pittsburgh Member No.: 5,670 |
all those drawbacks, and you still don't get the +6 Rea--which i generally find to be of equal utility as the +3d6 init, given how much surprise can suck.
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