Magickal Difficulty Modifiers

Mage Information

Activity	Catagory	Difficulty Modifier
	Tools and Rituals
Using a personalized instrument		-1
Using a unique instrument		-1
Using a unique and specialized instrument		-2 (total)
Working with unfamiliar instruments		+2/ +1
Working without usual instruments		+3
Using instruments when you don’t need to		-1
Using personal item from target (sympathetic magick)		-1 to -3
Appropriate Resonance (personal, instrument, ritual, or Tass)		-1
Opposed Resonance (personal, instrument, ritual, or Tass)		+1
Manipulating Mythic Threads/ hypernarrative		-1
	Time and Effort
Spending Quintessence		-1 per point, max. -3
Spending extra time		(per additional turn each roll; max. -3) -1
Fast-casting		+1
Turning time backwards		+3
	General Circumstances
Researches lore about subject before using magick		-1 to -3
Near a Node		-1 to -3
Distant or hidden target or subject		+1
Juggling several Effects at once		+1 per two Effects
Mage distracted		+1 to +3
Mage in conflict with Avatar		+1 to +3
Domino Effect		+1 per two coincidences after first; see p. 539.
Outlandish to godlike feat		+1 to +3

Notes

• Maximum net modifier +3 or -3.
• Minimum difficulty 3, maximum difficulty 10. If you employ the Thresholds option, max difficulty is 9; in the latter case, extra modifiers add to threshold, requiring one additional success per +1 difficulty modifier.
• Modifiers that would take the difficulty above 10 add additional successes at a one-to-one ratio; a +3 modifier to difficulty 10, for example, would demand at least three successes.
• If you use both the threshold option and modifiers that take the difficulty above 10, then each additional +1 difficulty over 9 demands an extra success. A +3 modifier to difficulty 9 would require at least three successes.