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Old 05-10-2014, 08:31 AM   #1
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Default [Ritual Path Magic] Energy Collecting

While I read it, it striked me that basically the most impeding thing to cast things in combat is that you have to gather energy for every spell for 5 seconds. Anybody tried to play it with collecting the energy per turn: Concentrate, roll aganist Path and collect energy equal to MoS? It's interesting that effect it would have on gameplay.
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Old 05-10-2014, 08:48 AM   #2
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There are a couple of options that let you do that published.
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Old 05-10-2014, 08:54 AM   #3
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It's a -4 to skill to skip the 4 extra Concentrates. There is also a leveled Perk to allow you to mitigate that penalty.
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Old 05-10-2014, 09:20 AM   #4
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It's a -4 to skill to skip the 4 extra Concentrates. There is also a leveled Perk to allow you to mitigate that penalty.
There is only one perk in original book, Ritual Mastery, and it's not leveled.
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Old 05-10-2014, 09:22 AM   #5
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There is only one perk in original book, Ritual Mastery, and it's not leveled.
It's been posted on the forum many times. Gimme a few and I'll dig it up somewhere.
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Old 05-10-2014, 09:23 AM   #6
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It's not in the book, it's something that's been floating around these forums.
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Old 05-10-2014, 09:32 AM   #7
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Ritual Mastery is suggested as an optional leveled. See Pyramid: The Laws of Magic p 17
Also see Speed Casting same book, page 18
EDIT: Even without that issue you can do this if you can absorb the penalties.
So your losing some of the energy you would have gathered if you took your time but for smaller Rituals that might be just fine.

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Old 05-10-2014, 09:32 AM   #8
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It's not in the book, it's something that's been floating around these forums.
Speed-Casting is official, but it's not a Perk.
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Old 05-10-2014, 09:48 AM   #9
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Here we go. It's a combination of a leveled Perk, a Rules Exemption Perk, and some levels of Natural Caster.

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Gathering Mastery -- Improved Path Caps 4 (Only for faster energy gathering*) [4] + Natural Caster 4 (Only for faster energy gathering, -50%) [30] + Rules Exemption (The Natural Caster in this ability can stack with normal Natural Caster) [1]. Your attempts to gather ambient energy take only one second (or one minute for non-adepts), at no extra penalty. 35 points.

* This is a feature because perks cannot have limitations.
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Old 05-10-2014, 10:55 AM   #10
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Another idea: Modular Ability limited to only working with Speed-Casting and enhanced with Reflexive or at least Reduced Time.
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