Hey everyone!

I looked through the FAQ and found the difficulty for spellcasting (which was good). But the example is horrible! I need some more clarifications!

So.. Great Fires of U'zhul - You get a total of two purple dice (because of the card difficulty modifier and the target defence) and one black die.

But where does the misfortune dice come from?

Is it from the "Add: to your dice pool for each enemy in the target's engagement after the first"- clause? Or is there some other factor I'm missing?

And what happens if you have more than 1 defence? Do you add additional purple dice... or do you add black dice? O.o

Thanks in advance!

/Thaumaturgy

All actions have a difficulty depending on your skill vs the targets.

0<p> if your stat is 2x higher than target

1<p> if your stat is higher than target

2<p> if your stat is equal to the target

3<p> if your stat is lower than the target

4<p> if your stat is 2 lower than target

Then you add 1 <m> if he has the skill and an extra <m> for every rank trained in the skill.

This is your difficulty your skill against an opponents skill, however if you are using and action that strikes him without his skill haveing anny effect on the roll then you go by a standard difficulty table: simple, easy, normal, hard etc. (don't have the table in front of me)

Hitting somebody is an easy task (1<p>)

Simplest way of looking at this:

skill vs skill = 1<p> lower, 2<p> even or 3<p> higher, +<m> for skill & any rank

skill vs target defense = 1<p> easy, +<m> for each defence rating

Just skill = 0<p> simple

(Then you add any extra situational difficulty dies to the roll)

So basically you are trying to tell me that it's 1 misfortune/black die per point of defense the enemy has in addition to the challenge/purple die you get because the spell targets defense?

Yes and the soak should reduce the damage as well if the spell does not specify.

you just treat it like a normal attack if it is: "vs Target Defence"