RE: RE: Adepts & multiple spell use

From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20_at_...>
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 22:10:33 -0000

> >Maybe... Maybe I'm just visualising it all wrong.
> >
> >Look, suppose I have Mrs Beeton's Grimoire of Cookery. The
> mundane ability I
> >want to augment is "make dinner". So I use a spell called
> "soup", a spell
> >called "roast beef", a few about vegetables, and an extra
> for pudding. Yes,
> >I start them off one at a time, but I'm using "boil carrots"
> while "roast
> >beef" is still going.
> >
> >In what way does this picture not match the use of a grimoire?

DD:
> Look, you can come up with any house rule you want. Peter's
> describing the rules in print. I'm sure they're intended to prevent
> "Saint Onslaught's Manual of Hacking" from giving a +10 to every
> combat.

In which case they're only there in order to "control" the players, and I'd throw them out in an instant. Fortunately this seems not to be the case: RR has explained why they're REALLY there, and how this models how magic works.