Spirit Recall & Rift follow-up

[obcidian_bandit]

Subject: Spirit Recall and Rift

After discussion with the Ritual Committee, the following clarification should cover your Spirit Recall question (as well as the Rift question):

A Spirit Recall should be treated like a self rift. You need to be conscious, able to make decisions, and not be completely immobilized (sleeping, dead, prisoned and paralysis are no, binding effects, laughed or drained are a yes, for some examples) and like a Rift it can be interrupted via the same methods. The intent is to treat it as a PC rift.

This can be summarized as Spirit Recall following the activation rules of a Magic Item, with additional constraints that it can be interrupted just like Rifting.

You stated that the intent is that a Recall is that it is a Self-Rift. Does this mean to supersede any other wording on the scroll, such as possessions being left behind (which doesn't occur with a Rift), or was this meant solely to mean that the 'removing oneself from game' mechanic works the same way as it does for a Rift?

 

[Polare]

Subject: Spirit Recall and Rift

After discussion with the Ritual Committee, the following clarification should cover your Spirit Recall question (as well as the Rift question):

A Spirit Recall should be treated like a self rift. You need to be conscious, able to make decisions, and not be completely immobilized (sleeping, dead, prisoned and paralysis are no, binding effects, laughed or drained are a yes, for some examples) and like a Rift it can be interrupted via the same methods. The intent is to treat it as a PC rift.

This can be summarized as Spirit Recall following the activation rules of a Magic Item, with additional constraints that it can be interrupted just like Rifting.

You stated that the intent is that a Recall is that it is a Self-Rift. Does this mean to supersede any other wording on the scroll, such as possessions being left behind (which doesn't occur with a Rift), or was this meant solely to mean that the 'removing oneself from game' mechanic works the same way as it does for a Rift?

The latter. The Ritual Committee's clarification regarded how Spirit Recall is activated and interrupted for the comparison.

-Bryan Gregory
ARC