Editing Creating Magical Effects (section)

== '''Perform the Effect''' ==

You cast the Effect by making a Static Challenge. ''Generally, no Narrator is required as long as your Effect conforms to the rules presented here.'' You simply make the challenge against anyone handy. (Just be sure to tell the other person what you’re doing so that she doesn’t get the wrong idea.) If you win the challenge, your Effect succeeds. Work out the result as described for your rote or Sphere and continue. If you lose, your Effect fails. If you tie, you must check your Arete Traits against the Effect’s static difficulty, which you computed before. You win if you have more Traits or equal Traits. Note that if you lose the test, you can retest with an appropriate Ability for your focus (see the list of foci and Abilities on p. 178, which you picked when you decided upon your method. Also, you can over bid with your Arete if you have twice as many Arete Traits as the Effect’s Trait difficulty. However, your opponent can overbid if the reverse is true.

Wound modifiers do not affect your Static Arete Challenge. Therefore, you do not come into the challenge Traits down or lose on ties automatically simply for being wounded. However, you cannot perform an Effect if you are unconscious and have not somehow maintained your thinking process magically.