>>>It doesn't actually state that the grimoire must be present in the
>>>rules text, but this is very clearly the intention. The strongest
>>>articulation comes in one of the examples: "If he is in a place where
>>>he feels safe taking his grimoire, he can instead cast the spell using
>>>his [Use Grimoire] rating."
>
> What about augmenting with [Use Grimoire]? I can see that having the
> Grimoire to hand is a logical restriction if you want to use the [Use
> Grimoire] as your base ability, but it seems reasonable to me that an
> augmenting use would not necessarily require the presence of the grimoire
> for a casting 'in the field'.
Personally, *I* would require the physical presence of the Grimoire if you wanted to augment with it - sort of like requiring the physical presence of a sword if you wanted to augment "Intimidating" with "Sword Fighting".
As a modern parallel, I augment my "Know Heroquest Rules" with my "Library of HeroQuest Books". No books, no augment (I don't have eiditic memory).
RR
He was born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world was mad
R. Sabatini, Scaramouche
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