Lord Ben
Dec 21 2005, 06:15 PM
Can two mages work together to summon something?
Azralon
Dec 21 2005, 06:19 PM
Not under current SR4 rules, unless you count "one magician summons something bigger than his Magic, the other sustains attribute buffs on the summoner and stands by to Heal."
I suspect Street Magic will contain something akin to ritual summoning.
PlatonicPimp
Dec 21 2005, 06:21 PM
Hmmm... I think the ritual sorcery rules would work just fine for that. The main summoner uses summoning and binding, the helpers make ritual sorcery tests to give those nice " Helping out a friend" dice to the main summoner, happy drain all around.
RunnerPaul
Dec 21 2005, 09:00 PM
Except for the whole part that' it's ritual "sorcery", not ritual "conjuring". I agree, from a mechanics standpoint, it's probably fine, but part of me worries that maybe there's a reason that the game designers didn't just turn it into a generalized "Ritualized Magic" when they were rebuilding the rest of the magic rules from the ground up.
Azralon
Dec 21 2005, 10:40 PM
| QUOTE (RunnerPaul @ Dec 21 2005, 05:00 PM) |
| part of me worries that maybe there's a reason that the game designers didn't just turn it into a generalized "Ritualized Magic" when they were rebuilding the rest of the magic rules from the ground up. |
I wonder if the triumvirates of Spellcasting/Counterspelling/Ritual Sorcery and Conjuring/Binding/Banishing are groups of 3 just to pad the skill groups out to their minimum skill count. That is to say, a skill group doesn't become worth it from a BP standpoint until it has three members.
They could have probably done it up as "Spellcasting/Dispelling/Spell Defense" and had both Spellcasting and Summoning include ritualized uses. Alternately, Binding could have been bundled into Summoning to make room for Ritual Summoning.
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