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Don't worry, I will not have time to read SK in the next few days, so I should stop "flooding" the forum for the near future.
-isn't Death Spell awfully powerful? It requires only 3 actions to cast (through Pillar of Ash) and with a Mood point on the attack roll it is almost impossible to defend against. A starting character can't even have Body+Mood of 10! The only parade I can see is using rebalancing/recasting maneuvers on the first (not likely) or second turn.
-The magic Glosses refers to a Masque of Silence spell which should be replaced by Masque of Dust or added to the Spell style chart. In fact, I could not help but notice that no close spell will silence someone. That would certainly be useful in a social situation though!
-Rapture of Ash says "+2 die size next attack", but to what? attack, defense, magical defense?
-Sign of silence says next attack, not next turn so, for instance, if I go next to Rapture of Silence and then Masque of dust, the latter will force a recast?
-Dustform and Limbs of Dust apparently do not prevent you from holding your equipment.
-how does one decide on the frequency limit, once per scene or day, on Dustform? or on high spells also?
-does Feign Death stop the progress of poisons, diseases, age..? Can you make it long lasting as a bound spell? I would allow it actually.
-suggestion for a freeform close spell: Dusting you cover the target in dust. It can make an object look unused; help hide a creature by muting to grey his colored clothes, and reflecting armor and sword; or ruin the props of your enemy in a social fight.
-is it me or the idea of using repeatedly a high spell such as raise undead sound awfully dangerous? A "large region" is vague but ominous with respect to spellbound.
And to finish, an independent question: do maneuvers which grant bonus damage to the next attack, apply to mood and characteristics damage? For instance, Dodge into shadows into Stunning secret in Dagger and Wine
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Yes, Death spell is powerful but it takes 6 moves to get there. Ahhh, I see what you mean. No you cannot move from pillar of ash to Death spell because you move across a gap. You cannot cross gaps. Also you cannot kill a PC/NPC with a suitable inspiration 'they get better'.
There is no silence spell but there are command type spells such as in Language of Stars.
+2 to die size attack is just that the attack die size is increased by two. So a d6 becomes a d10.
Sign of silence: yes as you describe Masque of dust would force recast.
Limbs of dust: Yeah I am not sure either
I just make frequency make sense to the story.
I would make feign death long lasting if wanted too.
Yes magic can be dangerous, particularly high spells. Regions have a spellbound rating in the Claw section.
Your last question, I am not sure but I think I read somewhere that it did. I will take a look.
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