Delayed magic from a ritual

From: brian.duguid_at_...
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 12:55:28 -0000


Let's say somebody sets up a ritual to use their feat Summon Earth Daimone, with the intention that the feat is a delayed casting. Not unsurprisingly, they'll probably perform the ritual at an Ernaldan shrine on a Holy Day, perhaps with a bit of community support, but with some big bonuses anyway. The end result should be that they could something fairly serious, much more powerful than they could normally call up, but that it'll be available them to call upon at some point later in the year. So far, it reminds me a little of RQ's revisits to the temple to reset your Rune Magic, but otherwise fine.

Setting up the delayed effect is pretty easy, but with the addition of a single hero point, they should be able to bump their roll for the delayed effect to cause a complete defeat. This would mean that not only can they have the powerful summons available later in the year, but that it would be available as many times as they want.

This seems to me to put very powerful magic easily within the reach of fairly weak characters. Am I missing something? Or does anyone have any comments?

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