Does a Initiate or Apprentice wizard (Or any related class) automatically start with their related attribute in favor, power? Or, do you have your characters typically build this up through non combat encounters for the fight they'll eventually face?

I know you can quick cast with wizards which essentially allows a one turn generation of power and spell casting, but can a initiate also try to curry favor as well as performing the blessing?

Thanks!

Wookie

In Story mode, a Mage/Priest has (Willpower) Power/Favor [Mana], he is at Equilibrium (check the books about it).

In encounter mode, you have to track that value as it will go up and down when you cast spells/blessings and gather mana (Curry Favours and Channel Power).

At the end of turn phase of your turn, if your current mana level is under your WP, you gain 1 mana. If it's equal, nothing. If it is above it, you loose 1 mana, unless you spend a Manoeuvre (concentration to maintain the mana level). If you mana level is greater that WPx2, it cost stress with the manoeuvre and it's quite dangerous (venting is bad for your health check the book for details)

Unless you have just spent some or channelled you power is equal to your WP. This is the equilibrium. If you have more or less it will slowly balanced out to your WP number again, by gaining /loosing one power per round of doing nothing to changed your power level (channelling or casting or concentrating to keep you power at current lvl above WP(costing 1 maneuvre)).

Hope this helps.

-L

Yes. Favour/Power always converges on the attribute level at the rate of one per turn. So if the wiz/priest does nothing for any length of time they will always have favour/power equal to their willpower.

Thanks for the info. Somehow I missed the "generates one at the start of every turn" rule and I have read through the books a few times now. Did I miss a "Quick cast" style ability for priests? Or is this only available for Wizards?

End of turn priests also move towards equilibrium (and can resist it appropriately as well). Their problems with favor however are much fewer.

Quickcast for Mages, "In Great Need" for Priest. About the same, but order of action reversed : Priest choose the Blessing, invoke it, and if, only if, they succeed and don't have enough Favor to activate it, can Curry Favor in the same action. The Curry Favor has an extra Challenge if used "In Great Need" (it is named "Urgent Need" in the specialisation options of Piety in the Core book p.18)