General Table Talk

[Peregrine_Bjornaer]

@Ryu

So does it take 20 off your Penetration AND still have to be penetrated at 40? It seems counterintuitive that it would do both. Aegis already drops penetration by half the aegis' level, but it seems stupid that you'd need 60+ penetration for an item to work in a lv40 aegis.

A level 40 Aegis reduced your casting total by 20. This aspect shouldn't have any effect on an item, since items don't have Casting Totals. Where it affects items is by them being Resisted by the Aegis, which I'm reading as having to overcome the Aegis as Magic Resistance, i.e. Penetration. I'll have to check the handy-dandy Aegis Cheat Sheet, though.

@A Guide to Aegis of the Hearth

Items
Explicit:

• If any of these three apply, the item is not resisted:

[list][*]The item was made by someone who participated in the Aegis ritual.

• The item was made by someone who has an invitation and token.
• The item was inside the Aegis as the ritual was cast, regardless of who made the item.
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  []All other items are resisted in an unstated manner.[/*:m][/list:u]
  Implicitly Likely:
• If you put the most weight on the word "resisted," then resisted items must penetrate the Aegis's level regardless of location. This probably means Talismans cease to give their bonuses when within a resisting Aegis, too.
• If you put the most weight on "foreign" vs. "within," then resisted items must penetrate the Aegis if "foreign" or have reduced penetration if within the Aegis. This can be interpreted so that Talisman bonuses flicker as the boundary is crossed, being resisted in an essentially irrelevant way.