[Rq-rules] Question about multicast

[Leon Kirshtein]

>otherwise sorcerors would 
be royally buggered as theyd have to recast an active
spell every time they 
wanted to use it! Which would be unduly harsh, to say
the least. 

Actually, this is exactly how I see it. If the
sorcerer stop concentrating, the spell goes poof.

I have also made most Divination type spells Active
(like Mystic Vision). Its really annoying for a GM to
have players walk around all the time being able to
see everything.

Leon
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<phl0nje at leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
> > But then how would this count as actively
concentrating on each spell?
> 
> I'm a wee bit confused. Standardly, you can only use
an active spell if you
> concentrate on it, and can only concentrate on one
spell at a time. However,
> you can cast an active spell and it will remain when
you're not concentrating
> on it (so if you use Sandy rules it will remain
ready to be activated as long
> as Presence is devoted, and if you are still stuck
in the 20th century and use
> RQ III rules it remains up as long as the duration),
otherwise sorcerors would
> be royally buggered as they'd have to recast an
active spell every time they
> wanted to use it! Which would be unduly harsh, to
say the least.
> 
> So, given that you cast either five project sights,
and send each project sight
> to five different locations OR you multispell them
together. Then you activate
> each one in turn, and when you're done with one you
move on to the next one, in
> quick succession. Probably not as good as receiving
information simultaneously
> from five different source, but definitely better
than nothing.
> 
> One catch; you may or may not rule that when you
stop keeping a projected sight
> activated it 'returns' to the caster. So I cast
project sight, and send it
> hurtling across the countryside. If I then stop
concentrating on it, it the
> projected sight returns to the caster. If you ruled
this then going from each
> one in turn would be pointless, for obvious reasons,
as the locus would return
> to the caster as soon as he stopped concentrating.
> 
> And it wouldn't be unduly harsh to rule this; indeed
I think it's quite
> important. Imagine you DON'T rule this, so the
Projected Sense remains knocking
> around where you left it. So imagine you're in
adungeon and send your projected
> sight fifty metres down a corridor. Suddenly you're
attacked! You run away, but
> your projected sight remains where it is. For
starters, it'll take a while to
> bring it back, but more likely you'll run out of
range, and the spell - I would
> rule, is cancelled.
> 
> Does that make sense?
> 
> So, I'd call for a ruling on that, indeed I'm
interested in what the list
> thinks. Also, when you cast Project, do you rule
that the Projected Sense
> appears anywhere within the casting range, or does
it have to start off at the
> caster and then move out at the rate of
1m/intensity?
> 
> Nikk
> 
> 
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