Limiting Enchantments and Enchatments

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Jaware

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Reading from the book, "Since these spells merely limit the way other spells work, they never add an energy cost for the user."

My question, If they dont add a cost to the user, why do they have a cost to cast? Especially a cost that is UP there.

Don't use "Cost to Cast" as a technical term with Enchantments. The Enchantment Spell itselof is only "cast" once. When the Item is Enchanted.

However, many Items give the user the ability to "cast" the Spell that's been Enchanted into the Item as if they knew it.

Call them "Cost to Enchant" and "Cost to Use" and things become clearer. Limiting Enchantments add to Cost to Enchant but not Cost to Use.

If you wonder "Why?" these Enchantments go back to the Dawn Age of Magic 30 years ago and ahve not been altered since. They mostly exist so NPCs can make Items difficult or impossible to use by PCs.