I still believe this is not a good way to combine the spells. In many cases you could combine 2 spells designed to be very quick but also designed to strain you more. As an example, combining 2 spells that have Speed: 1 (6) into an advanced spell would give you a spell of 7 (7), making an interruptible spell out of 2 spells designed to be quickly cast. A better solution that keeps the spirit of the 2 spells is:



John

I like this solution better

I had thought of that originally

it quickly made advancing base spells completely obsolete....

combining and advanced spell and advancing a base spell should both be a viable option...

Combine a few spells your way and advance some spells.. you will see you get a lot more bang for your buck when you combine things the way you propose.

Pedro I know it , but we keep rehashing all the differnt ways to do this and i think taking the 2 worst numbers out of the mix not the most effective, because you end up with things that were orginally strain as speed and it just doesnt make sense

I respectfully disagree... The proposed method makes combined spells obsolete...

Why did we move away from Highest Speed + 1/2 Lowest Speed and Highest Strain + 1/2 Lowest Strain?

John

@devin dunno

I liked the last iteration of:
Use the slowest Spell’s Speed cost and apply the faster Spell’s Speed or Strain (whichever is higher) cost as additional Strain. In cases which both spells possess the same Speed, use the spell with the highest Strain as your Base Spell.

Some combinations, yes.. some combinations just got a kick in the head...

while other combinations work very well...

what it does is limit the mixing of slow spells with slow spells or spells with super high strain (which was meant to curtail some mixes in the first place)

I have also been considering taking away the final +1 to each so it's just the highest speed/strain (maybe swamping the highest value to strain)

your gonna have to expand on that some more there pedro

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