On August 8, 2007 07:29 pm, Jane Williams wrote:
> My Pracitioner has encountered a surprisingly friendly spirit, out in
> the wilds of Upland Marsh. It helped her in the last contest she did
> (something to do with her spending a HP). She's decided she'd like it
> in a charm.
Sounds good.
> So, how do I go about doing this? I've found what to do with practice
> spirits (which as far as she knows this isn't, though she may get a
> surprise if she looks closer). What p136 says is "Practice spirits have
> more powers than the simple spirits kept in charms, and are available
> only from practices. The number, size, and type of practice spirits
> available are determined by the majestic spirit's relationships."
>
> OK. So this is presumably a "simple spirit kept in charms".
>
> "Practice spirits can be placed into charms, as described above."
>
> Only as far as I can see, it isn't "described above".
Page 131 - Spirit Attitude
" A spirit’s attitude determines what resistance your hero encounters when he tries to bind the spirit into a charm or fetish or commands the spirit to perform a task."
Now, since you have made this a particularly helpful spirit, you could rule it is friendly despite not being in the practice. (Resistance 14)
OR it could be Neutral, in which case the resistance is the rating of the ability being exploited.
> What am I
> missing? What ability should I be using? Do I need to do a Spirit Face
> against 10W3 just to find the thing? Or what? If practitioners spend a
> lot of their "cult time" making charms, isn't that rather a high
> resistance for an every-day activity?
Page 137. "Practice spirits and charms". Tells you what abilities to use:
Sadly, it also says this:
"Only friendly or neutral spirits from within the tradition can be placed into charms, not foreign spirits (even if friendly) or hostile ones."
So unless you want to make it secretly a tradition spirit, (doesn't have to be practice) then you can't do it. (Unless you want to break the rules.)
Binding a spirit outside the tradition is strictly Shaman territory, if I understand correctly.
LC
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