Spellcasting Botch Dice

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@David_Chart

Note that it is not possible to be relaxed while casting a Ritual spell or a fatiguing Spontaneous spell, as the process itself is stressful.

Oh, so, wait: you always get a whole lot of botch dice when (re)casting an Aegis or other Ritual, even if it's a "routine" casting?

For some reason, I was convinced that the current interpretation was that Mastery 1 allowed you to avoid all botch dice in an otherwise relaxed environment. Falke won't last long recasting that 12th magnitude Ritual to call the spring every year...

EDIT: here's the reason

@David_Chart

Incidentally, my reading of RAW is that Mastered Ritual spells have no botch dice when cast under calm conditions, because the description under Ritual spells says "always use a stress die", not "always count as stressful". I suspect that that was my intention at the time, because a number of ArM4 to ArM5 changes in that section were designed to create a background where magi could use magic to do casual, everyday stuff without statistically exploding with unnerving frequency, but it was over ten years ago and I don't remember exactly what I was thinking at that point.