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Skynet: /* See Also */

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‎See Also

Skynet at 02:32, 22 February 2022

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RoyalBatty: /* Threshold Rule */

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‎Threshold Rule

RoyalBatty: /* Ceremonies */

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‎Ceremonies

RoyalBatty: /* Great Work */

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‎Great Work

RoyalBatty: /* Ceremonies */

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‎Ceremonies

RoyalBatty: /* Brief Rites */

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‎Brief Rites

RoyalBatty: /* Brief Rites */

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‎Brief Rites

RoyalBatty: /* Great Work */

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‎Great Work

RoyalBatty: /* Great Work */

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‎Great Work

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 = See Also =
-[[Locking_an_Effect]]
+[[Locking an Effect]]
 [[Category:Mage]]

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	Jimbo passes his Willpower roll. Combat round 2 rolls around. He gets 2 successes. At last, he casts his fireball. Fireballs can indeed be dodged, but oh lawd, that fireball comin'.		Jimbo passes his Willpower roll. Combat round 2 rolls around. He gets 2 successes. At last, he casts his fireball. Fireballs can indeed be dodged, but oh lawd, that fireball comin'.

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		+	= See Also =
		+	[[Locking_an_Effect]]

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 = Threshold Rule =
-If an Arete roll's difficulty is ever increased to 10, the difficulty is actually 9 and the additional difficulty modifiers (which stack) are tacked on as required pre-requisite successes to get a spell going.  So, if you are casting a spell that requires 5 successes and then keep failing such that you rack up what would ''technically'' be difficulty 10, you'd be rolling at difficulty 9 and require 1 more success (6 total successes).  If you failed that difficulty 9 roll, then you owe yet another success (7 total successes).  See page 387 of M20 Core for in-depth details.
+If an Arete roll's difficulty is ever increased to 10, the difficulty is actually 9 and the additional difficulty modifiers (which stack) are tacked on as pre-requisite successes to get a spell going.  So, if you are casting a spell that requires 5 successes and then keep failing such that you rack up what would ''technically'' be difficulty 10, you'd be rolling at difficulty 9 and require 1 more success (6 total successes).  If you failed that difficulty 9 roll, then you owe yet another success (7 total successes).  See page 387 of M20 Core for in-depth details.
 = Partial Successes =

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 When casting Ceremonies off-screen, such as in +jobs or through automated systems, one Downtime point gets deducted from a Mage for every completed Ceremony.  This downtime cost is not applied when you're actively in a scene with a storyteller but it does count when casting in any off-screen context.
-Once you acquire your targeted amount of successes in an Arete roll for A Ceremony, you are done rolling for the spell.  If you happened to get more successes than you originally planned in a given arete roll, you get to keep them and distribute them as you like, but you do not get to roll again to obtain even more.  For example, Jimbo has rolled several times already and gotten 7 of his necessary 8 successes.  He rolls one more time to get that third success and is lucky: all 3 of his Arete dice come up successes.  He only needed 7, but he got 10!  He gets to keep the extra 2, but is done casting his spell.
+Once you acquire your targeted amount of successes in an Arete roll for A Ceremony, you are done rolling for the spell.  If you happened to get more successes than you originally planned in a given arete roll, you get to keep them and distribute them as you like, but you do not get to roll again to obtain even more.  For example, Jimbo has rolled several times already and gotten 7 of his necessary 8 successes.  He rolls one more time to get that eighth success and is lucky: all 3 of his Arete dice come up successes.  He only needed 7, but he got 10!  He gets to keep the extra 2, but is done casting his spell.
 == Great Work ==

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	When casting Great Works, one Downtime point gets deducted from a Mage '''per Arete roll'''. You can go into negative downtime for simplicity (you'll just not be able to take other off-screen actions until your downtime pool is replenished). This downtime cost is applied even when you're actively in a scene with a storyteller.		When casting Great Works, one Downtime point gets deducted from a Mage '''per Arete roll'''. You can go into negative downtime for simplicity (you'll just not be able to take other off-screen actions until your downtime pool is replenished). This downtime cost is applied even when you're actively in a scene with a storyteller.
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		+	Once you acquire your targeted amount of successes in an Arete roll, you are done rolling for the spell. If you happened to get more successes than you originally planned in a given arete roll, you get to keep them and distribute them as you like, but you do not get to roll again to obtain even more. For example, Jimbo has rolled once already and gotten 11 of his necessary 12 successes. He rolls one more time to get that twelfth success and is lucky: all 3 of his Arete dice come up successes. He only needed 12, but he got 15! He gets to keep the extra 2, but is done casting his spell.

	= Maximum Spell Successes =		= Maximum Spell Successes =

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	When casting Ceremonies off-screen, such as in +jobs or through automated systems, one Downtime point gets deducted from a Mage for every completed Ceremony. This downtime cost is not applied when you're actively in a scene with a storyteller but it does count when casting in any off-screen context.		When casting Ceremonies off-screen, such as in +jobs or through automated systems, one Downtime point gets deducted from a Mage for every completed Ceremony. This downtime cost is not applied when you're actively in a scene with a storyteller but it does count when casting in any off-screen context.
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		+	Once you acquire your targeted amount of successes in an Arete roll for A Ceremony, you are done rolling for the spell. If you happened to get more successes than you originally planned in a given arete roll, you get to keep them and distribute them as you like, but you do not get to roll again to obtain even more. For example, Jimbo has rolled several times already and gotten 7 of his necessary 8 successes. He rolls one more time to get that third success and is lucky: all 3 of his Arete dice come up successes. He only needed 7, but he got 10! He gets to keep the extra 2, but is done casting his spell.

	== Great Work ==		== Great Work ==

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 When a prepared spell requires 5 or less successes, that is a "Brief Rite".  Each Arete roll for a brief rite takes an abstract amount of time that is significantly longer than a combat round, but typically no longer than a couple of minutes.  There are no stamina rules that apply to Brief Rites, and so there is plenty of narrative flexibility for how long a particular spell should take to achieve.  Still, each roll should represent a block of time long enough that application in combat is unrealistic.
-Once you acquire 5 or more successes in an Arete roll, you are done rolling for the spell.  If you happened to get more successes than you originally planned, you get to keep them and distribute them as you like, but you do not get to roll again to obtain even more.
+Once you acquire your targeted amount of successes in an Arete roll, you are done rolling for the spell.  If you happened to get more successes than you originally planned in a given arete roll, you get to keep them and distribute them as you like, but you do not get to roll again to obtain even more.  For example, Jimbo has rolled once already and gotten 2 of his necessary 3 successes.  He rolls one more time to get that third success and is lucky: all 3 of his Arete dice come up successes.  He only needed 3, but he got 5!  He gets to keep the extra 2, but is done casting his spell.
 == Ceremonies ==

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 When a prepared spell requires more than 10 successes, that is a "Great Work".  Each Arete roll for a great work takes a demanding and significant span of time: five hours.
-Narratively, storytellers and players may depict that an Arete roll doesn't take a full 5 hour sand instead takes some other (still very long) amount of time, at least two hours. Mechanically, however, each Arete roll in a Great Work is treated as if it is five hours for the purposes of Stamina checks regardless of the narrated passage of time. So, a storyteller and mage might agree that, narratively speaking, each Arete roll is taking 4 hours, not 5, for whatever story reason. They will still need to do Stamina checks as if each Arete roll took five hours.
+Narratively, storytellers and players may depict that an Arete roll doesn't take a full 5 hours and instead takes some other (still very long) amount of time, at least two hours. Mechanically, however, each Arete roll in a Great Work is treated as if it is five hours for the purposes of Stamina checks regardless of the narrated passage of time. So, a storyteller and mage might agree that, narratively speaking, each Arete roll is taking 4 hours, not 5, for whatever story reason. They will still need to do Stamina checks as if each Arete roll took five hours.
 For clarification regarding the stamina rolls described on page 542 of M20 core, you do, in fact, need to perform all your Stamina rolls before 'unlocking' your first Arete roll for a Great Work.  If you have Stamina 3 and set out to perform a Great Work, for example, you'll need to roll Stamina twice before you can roll Arete. After that, for each Arete roll you want, you'll need to roll Stamina 5 times.