[New spell] Sustenance of the Spider

[gerg]

@maine75man pointed out that Halancar

However, looking at the spells in the rulebook, there are two ways to use durations:

• affect anything that becomes a legal target for the duration of the spell, but only as long as they stay a legal target (Lungs of the Fish, p.122)
• affect everything that is a legal target when the spell is cast, for the duration of the spell (Incantation of Putrid Wine, p.122)

Awesome. Exactly.

[Tugdual]

@ezzelino

Honestly, if you assume that Circle affects anyone initially within the Circle, regardless of whether they stay within the Circle after the casting, you are either making Circle quite different from all other "area" targets, or just breaking a ton of spells from the corebook itself.

{Citation please}

On the contrary, this makes Circle behaves like Room. Your interpretation is in direct opposition of the corebook itself.
Incantation of Putrid Wine, ArM5 p 122 "... and they remain malodorous even if removed from the room."

[Tellus]

@maine75man

@Tellus

I've stated before that MoH was a disappointment, ruleswise. Not all spells followed guidelines or gave correct calculations.
Atleast one spell has been hashed through on this forum - do not take MoH as gospel, merely as suggestions.

I'm not sure this is fair to the writers, editors, and play testers that put work into this product. Certainly there will be errata and almost every book makes mistakes on spell calculations. I for one think one of the main purposes for the book was to take some of the places where the rules are less clear and clarify them by example. Certainly for me the book provides many examples of what can be done with hermetic magic that I never thought of.

Either way good bad or ugly Magi of Hermes deserves to be included in any discussion of RAW as RAW. Not just out of respect for the people who worked on it but also for the people who spent good money to get it. If in your saga you don't wish to use it as such fine but that is what House Rules are for.

I spent good money on it (to use your own phrase).
I consider it a very interesting concept. I happily mine it for ideas.
I advice everyone to check the level calculations before they use spells or effects from it.
That is all.