Newbie Solicitation for Advice (#3?)

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@ExarKun

In a peaceful situation, a mastered spell never rolls botch dice on his stress die if a 0 occurs.

True but a little misleading: in a peaceful situation (when using a simple die roll*), there is never a chance of botch regardless of whether the spell is mastered.

• As pointed out by Cuch and Exar, this parenthetical comment is wrong.

@ExarKun

At the opposite of formulaic, ritual use always a stress die. That doesn't mean that they are always stressful.

The definition of a stress die includes the possibility of botching, so whether the characters are feeling stress or not is irrelevant: rituals always include a chance of a botch.