[MH] Ritual Path Magic - how many paths to a ritual?

[vitruvian]

Originally Posted by mlangsdorf

Weights for area effects are based on the heaviest item in the area, not total weight.

Looking over the way I statted the ritual, I could argue that the target of the ritual are the people being blinded by the rain, not the clouds.

Yeah, the caster should probably 'only' pay for the area, the duration, and the modifiers imposed on the people and monsters in the area, not for the weight of the clouds or the air moved as wind or anything like that.

It also seems a bit off for the time for the storm to form, its onset time if you will, to count against the duration, as opposed to paying for duration based on how long the storm sticks around once it's actually started. After all, you'd think a shorter onset time would be more difficult, although a large part of that is it becoming a Greater Effect if the storm gathers with unnatural speed.

Still, I maintain that the threshold between Lesser and Greater Effect for the time it takes a storm to brew, even from scattered clouds to full-on thunderstorm, in many parts of the country is no more than an hour, perhaps even considerably less. If you're starting from overcast, it could be on the order of minutes.