According to the section on astral combat, projecting characters use their astral attributes in place of their physical ones. Here Logic corresponds to Agility. In the paragraph about weapon foci however it says that a projecting mages uses Astral Combat+Willpower to attack with the focus.

Which is correct or is there an intentional inconsistency?

If you are dual natured you use physical attributes to fight foes with a physical form, or willpower + astral combat to fight wholly astral entities. If you are a wholly astral entity(like a projecting mage) you use your astral attributes, so logic + astral combat.

Hope that helps.

That's exactly what I thought, but:



SR4 has the same lines except for the page reference on p. 192.

That's why I wonder.

I'd say use logic, willpower doesn't need any more importance to a magician, even if that clearly goes against the written rules.

How do I propose that for an erratum?

People have poked at this inconsistency before. The writers adamantly hang on to the use of Willpower in this context.

Have they given a reason?

One would have to search back through the archives to find it, but I believe so.

Because they hate logic traditions?

Honestly I'm not sure what logic does in the astral. Its for agility, but what agility skills are you using in astral space. I guess maybe infiltration occasionally. Giving each fo the drain stats a point in astral combat would seem to be a better choice.

Logic to hit, Charisma for base damage, and intuition for going first.