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Old 07-12-2013, 11:40 AM   #28
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Default Re: Updating/recreating GURPS Mage the Ascension to 4ed

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Originally Posted by Flyndaran View Post
If I remember correctly replenishing those stores of raw magic requires time, skill, and access to a properly powerful node.
Thaumatology recommends a skill roll (Meditation or Alchemy for example) to capture raw magic from a place of power. This isn't much different from Mage in allowing quintessence to be captured up to the level of Avatar by meditating in a node, Mage also allows more to be stored from a node using a Prime level 1 effect.

The Raw Magic rules also mention optionally allowing it to be extracted anywhere, given much more time, with a very good margin of success. Mage requires a Prime level 5 effect to recharge quintessence only up to the level of a mage's avatar without a node, but it doesn't require long times or very great margins of success.
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