QUOTE (Muspellsheimr @ Jul 17 2008, 07:46 AM)

The intent may be to add the foci dice before the split, but by RAW, splitting your pool (such as attacking multiple targets) creates multiple new pools. Dice pool modifiers (such as foci & specializations) all apply after splitting your pool.
Actually, while attacking multiple characters is explicitly split before dice pool modifiers are added, multiple spell casts do not say they are. This heavily implies that they have all modifiers applied to the pool before it is split, as otherwise, it would have language similar to the attacking multiple characters.