aligned aura and study in vis

Games Discussion Ars Magica
1

Hello everyone,

Vis study is stress die + aura.

But what if the vis match the alignment of the aligned aura (in my case a 10 aura, aligned with creo), do we add aura + aligned aura (so aura twice) to the stress roll?

On another topic, the lab i'm designing has a 17 safety and the magus has a familiar's gold cord 5. He study in 7 creo pawns in this 10 aligned creo aura.

How much botch dies must he rolls?

  1. -17-5 +7+10 = 0
  2. -17-5 +7+10+10 = 5
    Say the aura (unaligned) would be only 10, does the vis study roll botch die need at least 1 die, or can the safety reduce the risk of botch by having NO botch die to roll?
    So: -17-5 +7+10 = minimum 1 botch die or 0 ?

Thanks for your lights!

2

In RoP Magic Realm the rules says that alingnement doesn't count. Only with supernatural abilities or arts magically aligned works.
And i think that the Familiar only quit in the spellcasting but i am not sure.

3

Okay thanks for aligned aura :slight_smile:.

For the familiar, it's stated in covenant that the gold cord add his value to safety :slight_smile: but not sure if safety can go to 0 botch dies or not (and that isn't written ... except if i have miss it!) hence my question

4

ArM5 p104 does force the botch roll. So the last dice has to be removed by safety or not at all.

5

So if safety suppress the last die, no roll for botch?
Everybody agrees?

I think it's the way it has to be, but need confirmation :smiley:

6

According to ArM (p.165) studying from vis does not require a laboratory, so I am not sure
a safe laboratory applies at all.