Ritual path magic group casting

[Christopher R. Rice]

Originally Posted by Servanous

1: Willing sacrifices. If I understand this section correctly a castor can tap as many willing sacrifices as he has access to in the ritual but only one per turn. Am I getting this correctly or is there some limit?

Correct. There is no limit, just those who are willing to spare energy for you and you can only do this once per person who must ante up all the energy they want to give in that instance (you can't go back and add more later). The caster must make a Concentrate maneuver and spend a minute (or a second if he has Ritual Adept) to do this.

Originally Posted by Servanous

2: If a castor can tap any number of willing sacrifices would there be a skill penalty after a certain number since long rituals are more difficult?

No. But he can only tap one source once per spell.

Originally Posted by Servanous

If you can tap any number of willing sacrifices then that makes an ally group (cultists) much more valuable than a place of power and dwarfs high skill levels in a setting that uses RPM.

Sure. Why not. But you'd probably need the Minion enhancement for them to do it regularly. Sacrificing energy like that is painful. It'd be like asking a ally to constantly cut his wrists for you - they're not going to do that willingly and often without a good reason or the Minion enhancement.