A few magic related questions I was hoping people could help me clarify. If people could post page references for me with their answers, I would appreciate that as well (so I can refer to them in the future). Apologies, I know they are basic questions, yet personally I find the rules unclear on them.
1. For a shaman's totem modifer dice, (use Bear, for example) does a Bear shaman get +2 dice to the casting (Sorcery test) AND drain resistance test for health spells (+2/+2) or divide up the two dice between the two tests? (+2/+0, +1/+1, +0/+2)?
2. Say a mage has sorcery 6 with 2 actions in a combat turn, and sets aside 2 dice for spell defense. Assuming he casts a spell in both of these actions, does he now have only 4 dice (in his sorcery pool) available for the spells? And is it 4 dice for EACH of the spells, or 4 dice TOTAL between the two?
3. Spells can no longer be 'grounded' through foci, correct? If magician A has a focus B active (but he is neither perceiving nor projecting), and magician C slams a spell into focus B from the astral, the worst that happens is that focus B gets destroyed, magician A and all around him are untouched. This because he is in the mundane world, and since focus B and magician C are in the astral, B and C can affect each other but not A. Did I get that right? Stuff on the astral plane can only affect other astrally present stuff, and can no longer affect stuff on the mundane world even indirectly? (e.g. dropping a spell into a focus from the astral and thus destroying the focus and everything around it in the mundane world doesn't work anymore).
Thanks for the help, I appreciate it!