Editing Creating Magical Effects (section)

===EDITORS NOTES!===

Its also important when Deciding Upon Your Method that you use an appropriate [[Focus]]:

 <nowiki>When you shape an Effect, your mage generally needs to use a focus. Doing so takes the form of chanting, brandishing an object of power, mixing a substance and applying it, manipulating energy through song and dance or whatever else the mage believes is necessary to work magic. In game terms, you’ll use various trappings and Abilities to work your spells.</nowiki>

Using no focus, called Surpassing A Focus, is generally ill-advised. It requires the expenditure of a Willpower trait, and you are down three traits on your Arete Challenge.