[UA] Big Fat Index/Thaumaturgy/101

[Dean Reilly]

Thuvasa3 <thuvasa3 at yahoo.com> wrote:
Authentic Thaumaturgy--I'm having some trouble
wrapping my mind around this one. The thaumaturge can
do minor rituals just by rolling the AT skill, right? 
*Regardless of how many minor charges the ritual would
normally cost?*

Yes- the Thaumaturge just performs the ritual and makes the roll, without worrying about charges.  ATs only have to worry about sig charges, which they usually get through charging rituals.



Also, it says again and again that using thaumaturgy
rituals breaks taboo for adepts. Is that just the
charging rituals, or all of them? In other words, if
the adept is using charges from his school to power
the rituals, it would seem to me that that would not
damage his world-view; i.e. his way *is* the only way,
because the stupid rituals wouldn't work if he didn't
have [school of magick here] to power it. eh? Am I
just getting that all turned around? Finally, does
anyone have any charging rituals they would like to
share?

This is right- only charging rituals are taboo for adepts.  Adepts can power regular rituals by using charges- a fleshworker can perform Scurvy Livestock or Murderer's Crow by using his charges from self-inflicted wounds.  Getting magic power from charging rituals is against an adept's worldview - "the power comes when I drink/take risks/ get money"- and so is taboo.


		
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