[UA] Question about artifacts

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

At 05:58 PM 11/18/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>This may have come up before - while the UA main book explains how artifacts
>are made there is no explanation of how they're activated and who can use
>them.
>
>Can mundanes without any magical knowledge whatsoever use artifacts, or is
>at least the presence of a magical charge needed? Having to use a minor
>charge to trigger a minor artifact with a one charge effect would be pretty
>useless (at least for the maker of the artifact), but who exactly can use
>it? Do you have to know that an artifact is an artifact, can the creator
>specify a kind of ritual or activating sequence, should I have read more
>carefully?

My intention was that any dickhead can use a magickal artifact.  Some may
require specific knowledge (a working Ouija board is still useless if
you're illiterate) but no specific magick "fuel".

-G.
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