Magickal Difficulty Modifiers
- Activity ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.
