Hi all,
Converting and old character of mine to SR4. He is an aspected conjurer. The GM wants two versions - one using the conversion rules in the pdq, another using 450 BP + accumulated karma.
A couple of questions due to my relative inexperience with actually playing SR4 (have most of the books and read them through a few times).
1) Sustaining Foci
Is it possible for someone else to cast the spell sustained by a sustaning focus? The reason I am asking is more long term than character creation - I am going to pretty much save the next 140 or so Karma for an ally spirit and wondered if it would be better to have him learn Increase Reflexes (and some other goodies) and cast it on sustaining foci which my character has bonded.
2) Ally Spells
Speaking of Ally spells, if, as an aspected conjurer, I want my ally to leanr spells, the cost is as far as I can tell is that of a spell firmula worked into the ritual + 5 karma - am I right about this? For that matter, can an ally cast spells if its summoner cannot?
3) The Aspected Magician NQ
This seems massively inhibiting RAW. Why should an aspected conjurer lose 5 dice from his assenssing pool? Surely it would make sense for him to be able to identify astral forms and auras in his work as a specialist conjurer. Despite the original character being an aspected magician, I am heavily leaning towards not taking this NQ and just not spending any points on sorcer or spells. Is this something that you would advise?
4) Traidtion
The old character was a hermetic conjurer. The backstory though has him as an ex-Sylvestrine excorcist - street name is Damon Frockt ((d. Frockt - get it?). This makes me want to rebuild him as a Christian Theurge, but I am not overly thrilled with having CHR as a drain attribute - would you suggest I just stick with Hermticism? Would you say that all RCC sanctioned Churhc mages aricians are Christian Theurges? In some ways, I would more see that sort of tradition being part of the more evangellical denominations, or certain branches of the RCC - the stodgy scientisfic Hermetic approach just seems more common sense to me in some ways. I supposse it could depend on where he received his education - brought up in the Churhc and thus a Theurge, or heard his calling after awakening and already beginning to walk the Hermetic path.
Thanks for your time.