So the opponent's defense is immaterial when a Demorthèn is using Ogham to damage a foe? Is that actually in the rules anywhere? because we can't find it. That is correct. There is not mention anywhere in the rules of Defense playing a factor in a Demorthen spell. The only mention of defending agai...

Greetings! I live in the US and only speak English, but have fallen in love with Shadows of Esteren. I am kind of glad it is still a rather obscure title which only adds to the mystery of running it with unsuspecting friends. :twisted: I have ran other campaigns and played numerous similar systems, ...

Sorry for necro. Yldiane, Varigal: The Perception discipline Alertness is not possible for a starting Varigal. She has not even enough XP for it. It results exactly with 0 XP, including the Mentor bonus, without it. I don't understand why she can't start with Alertness. In any case, if she is age 21...

Well, for clarity, the damage (even for spells) is always applied to the margin of success AFTER the to-hit roll has been compared to the defense, or in this case summoning difficulty. Since you are rolling against the Summoning difficulty NOT the Defense of the enemy by using Demorthen Arts in plac...

I have a few questions related to character creation: Updating Calculations? When the Ways are under the influence of a Strengthening or Weakening due to a Syndrome or higher, do derived statistics retroactively update to account for the now buffed stat? Something like Trauma is set at the start, bu...