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Offline Jengada

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Symbolic Ways, Essence, and Mentalism
« on: January 22, 2018, 05:37:28 PM »
I was just reading Symbolic Ways in RM2, and noticed that it does not say the spell embedded in the Symbol has to be cast by the same person who cast the Symbol N spell. It's the same in RMSS. That opens the possibility of making Symbols for Essence and Mentalism spells, and I'm wondering whether anyone has seen a rationale for NOT allowing this.
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Offline Nightblade42

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Re: Symbolic Ways, Essence, and Mentalism
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2018, 08:20:25 PM »
I've never thought otherwise.  The symbol simply holds the spell until it is called upon.  What that spell is shouldn't matter, IMHO.

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Re: Symbolic Ways, Essence, and Mentalism
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2018, 05:14:31 AM »
We used the following limitation in the last campaign: anyone can cast the spell for the symbol, but only the original caster can embed a spell with range "self".

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Re: Symbolic Ways, Essence, and Mentalism
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2018, 10:32:35 PM »
We used the following limitation in the last campaign: anyone can cast the spell for the symbol, but only the original caster can embed a spell with range "self".

I agree with that.  It makes a lot of sense.

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