Doubling sorcery costs

[Tupper]

I'm a bit confused by the example on p386 of RQG. In it Damastol  wants to cast Logical Clarity (truth and dispel).

1. Why would Damastol's affinity to illusion (coming from Truth) matter if the spell uses Truth (and not illusion)?

2. Assuming Damastol has both rune and technique unmastered, shouldn't the spell cost him *8* points to cast (2*4) and 4 per additional level of intensity? The example says 4 to cast and 4 per level of intensity.

Any idea what I'm missing here?

 

 

[PhilHibbs]

Double once for not knowing the rune, and doubled again for not knowing the technique, so x4?

[Tupper]

That’s my read of the penalty he should face, but in the example he seems to quadruple the intensity cost but only double the basic cost.

[PhilHibbs]

8 hours ago, Tupper said:

That’s my read of the penalty he should face, but in the example he seems to quadruple the intensity cost but only double the basic cost.

The 1-point cost for each rune/technique is doubled. The additional point per intensity is doubled twice. He knows Truth, so that is 1 point. He doesn't know Dispel, so that is doubled. So by my reckoning it's 3 base plus 2 per extra intensity. Clearly the example is muddled, maybe they changed Logical Clarity from Illusion to Truth and didn't fix the example.

For a 1 rune 1 technique spell that you don't know both of, the cost would be 4 base (2 for the rune, 2 for the technique) and 4 per intensity (1 point doubled twice).

Edited June 22, 2018 by PhilHibbs

[Tupper]

That makes sense to me.  Looks like in the new version of the pdf the example has been amended to match your reasoning: 3 points for the basic spell, and 2 points per extra intensity.