Friendly Warning--Censer of Arcane Devotion

[D Blaze]

Be absolutely sure about the change, because it is going to be a little different when you start using your new summons(if they change) and you'll need to adapt.

I say this as i just PKed a friend by accident by not paying attention to my new summon's attack style.


It was entirely my mistake as I was preoccupied at that particular moment by trying to help someone else, so just be careful.

Especially anyone who summons Water Elementals, you got to keep a very tight leash on those things.

[errk]

Just curious, If one doesn't follow a Deity, there is no change?  

(I havn't tried it yet..

[Nyralotep]

No change if you don't use it. 

[errk]

No ... sorry,  the question was if I use it and don't follow a deity.  Will there be any change at all?
I would really like to change my summons to more fit my charater, but going so far to following a god for that reason alone is streching it.
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A suggesting would be to raise the price of this Censer and allowing mages perform a ritual every time they decided to learn about another type of summons..  Since I assume they still get there powers from the weave, and not a divine might.

[Aragon]

To answer your question, and this is unofficial since I am not a GM, but since you do not have a deity the system reads blank and should default to your current.  But you already know that nothing is going to change so save your money and don't use the censer.  

Basically, the item will read your deity field and since it will not find a cooresponding entry (just like if you misspelled your deity name on charater creation) and will default back to the original summons.

[Acacea]

All magic, both arcane and divine is a part of "The Weave"--the priests and so forth just have it filtered through their deities, sort of.

There is really no reason to use the Censer if you don't follow a deity, as that's preeetty much its entire purpose, not just changing your summons. It's a "get touchy feely with your god" thing, which is really nice for some devout mages.

(Edited for an awkward sentence.)

[Sakura]

To answer your question D Blaze, Water elementals have always used a drowned effect.
I learned the hard way with one of my Cleric's.

Xeen's Summons are all Water elementals. Lucinda's Higher summons are Golems, and so on.
(See Handbook page: 260 for information about Custom Summons for Layonara)

I belive that for mages with no god it is based on your Alignment. (I'm sure L could clerify that ).


Sakura

[Chuckles_McChuck]

that makes things alot nicer for me, I was worried about the alignment thing for awhile.  If Lia truely becomes evil again she would have feinds as her summons, unfortunately nomatter how evil Lia becomes she will never tolerate such things again which put it in a bit of a flux for me.  Fortunately now if things go well with Lucinda and Lia becomes faithful to her I can keep the golems which I have a nice background story for that I would have hated to get rid of if my summons changed.

[Nyralotep]

From Orth's posting:

Mages can use an item called Censer of Arcane Devotion. This new itemis available at temple vendors for around 1500g and is a one time onlyuse which sets the devotion of your arcane magics to your deity. Thisin turn will give you the FX coloured to your deity. Plus, your Summons become the ones based on the Deity, the Clerical ones.If the spell is cast from a mage/sorc/bard who have not used thisCenser, the colours default to the original Bioware colours.
 
Druids and Rangers spells are Deity based as well, if they have no Deity then it defaults to Green.

This can be found here:
http://www.layonaraonline.com/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=21029&posts=32