[Ritual Path Magic] Energy Collecting

[Dark Archon]

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.

[Refplace]

There are a couple of options that let you do that published.

[Nereidalbel]

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.

[Dark Archon]

Originally Posted by Nereidalbel

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.

[Nereidalbel]

Originally Posted by Dark Archon

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.

[Angle]

It's not in the book, it's something that's been floating around these forums.

[Refplace]

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.

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Angle

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.

[Christopher R. Rice]

Originally Posted by Dark Archon

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.

It makes it too powerful - if you're going to reduce the times add Gathering Mastery, Speed-Casting, or the like to reduce it. Of course, it's your campaign so if you want to do it that way - have at! Tell us how it worked for you. Having done this previously in the past I could tell you that it made RPM in my games nearly unusable.