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Plus, if you're following Rule 3, reducing Ritual casting time is a huge benefit by itself. Yes, it also means more Paradox dice for getting greedy with Reach, but that mitigated by planning. Maybe you don't want to increase it at character creation, but you're not going to want to neglect it. Gnosis! It's not just about adding another die to your casting - it increases the number of Yantras you can use, decreases Ritual casting time, increases the number of Obsessions you can have (which means Beats). This game wants you to explore this theme and has incentivized it. Your character will be wracked with guilt, but he'll be crying from his throne. A low Wisdom means less opportunities to risk Wisdom without having to lose more and more control. Don't let your Wisdom get too low, and push at the edge of your own Hubris. Beats means Experience, Experience means power. Hubris! You get Beats for risking Wisdom. You are the sniper, the surgeon, the politician - don't go in blind, do your damnedest get the job done right the first time, and have a Plan B. Spend that Reach on something else, like Duration. If it can be cast as a Ritual, it should. Rituals! Mages are rewarded for thinking ahead, taking their time, and scheming planning. Afterward, there are some amazing perks to buying 2 Dots in Forces, Fate, Space, etc., even if it's not your character's primary focus! This also means that being a generalist is a bad idea for starting characters - you don't have the Dots to spend.
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Right out of character creation you are guaranteed to have at least one of these. One Dot is all you need to try to unravel a spell, but it starts getting good at two. Every new Arcanum dot gets you a new Attainment.
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Now between the increased dice pool (using the rote skill as a Yantra) and free Reach you probably want your most common spells to be Rotes.Īttainments! Not just for Legacies. Rotes! In 1e, the major advantage was reduced mana cost, so there was almost no reason to have Rotes for in-Path spells even if you cast them all the time.