1a) Can you gain Will in downtime?
1b) Is 6 the all time ceiling for Will for PC's?
1 c) Which skills do you have to choose at ch. Creation or "lose the option on taking later" or is this all FOIP?

Question 2): Can you “cross train” magic? i.e. is my dream of the sensible Summoner who has ward spells from Enchantment and Evokers repellent handy a potential reality or a pipe dream?

2b) Can all casters lend each other magic or do they have to be of the same discipline?

Question 3): With “Cause Disease” can it work in a similar way to the “poisons” example on pg 68, e.g if an “unconscious character” has a spell of Cause Disease cast on them and then Heal, does one have to give the player a Disease card at once, or would it be permissible to contact a ref after the fact and ask them to pass it on?

Question 4): Creating Undead Monsters:

a) The Spell Imbue Cadaver is unclear, I presume one must cast Raise Shade first.

b) With the spell Imbue Cadaver, can the Shade voluntarily go back into the body? I see questions on whether Shades can cast spells or retain their memories a la Maelstrom 3.0 are FOIP.

c) With the spell "Grant Will" how many people can cast it at the same time? If you had say, 10 necromancers and one acolyte and then after about 5 minutes you had err... 10 necromancers and an "Imbued Cadaver" could the necromancers (assuming they fit) all "Grant Will" to the Imbued Cadaver?

d) Assuming the above 10 necromancers and an Imb. Cad. above, could they take it in turns to grant will and then pray? You could probably build up a fairly large store of will then.

e) Assuming you had this undead, high powered Imbued Cadaver of an ex Necromancer, would they be called a "Liche" in game terms or just be struck by lightning for violating rule 7 like the only volunteer at a proctologists' convention? I mention this merely because you have on page 55, "No living character knows precisely what all the different types of undead are..."

Question 5) If you have a group of Summoners are they all covered by the clause (pg 62) of Summon and Bind Entity

You will have individual options of skill gains. Will ponts are amongst them. 6 is not the maximum ceiling after character generation.

Yes

Contribution to spells requires knowledge of the same type of magic.

That is perfectly fine.

As for the rest Pete, there are specific lore sheets given out to each player who takes each different type of magic, your answers will appear there.

Sense Enchantment has no restriction on its amount of use. In the skill description it states "object or location" no reference is made to people.

The sections on Downtime are a little generic as a far more informed guide will be available at the event. The lore sheets for each skill will also give more information on what you can do with your stuff. I can assure you, Basic Construction is essential to the downtime campaign and it has a whole skill tree attached. You will have several starting options - but the only one in open knowledge is the shelter's that are described.

chalicier (4/27/2007)

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Just thought I should explain myself a bit - basically, "hardy, self-reliant colonists" is a difficult group concept to build when you're not entirely sure what some of the skills do, and (not being Argen) we can't all afford the character points for Survival .
I have a sneaking suspicion that I might have to exercise some initial concept control over my player group to keep it workable as a concept, particularly with the limitations on food and shelter. We can have some more Unique Snowflakes later, when we can feed 'em

Very wise, I smell the maelstrom in you. I guess the slight fuzziness over downtime is also owing to the scale of the game. I am very aware that Eos is eminently scaleable in terms of its rules and I don't want to expect it to be too small or large until the acid test of the first event is out of the way. I have a rough figure of the player base I would like to have in mind and I want the downtime to reflect this. However, if I don't achieve those numbers I also want to ensure that the players who do decide to play the game aren't compromised by the scale of the campaign.

The key paragraph on downtime is the following on page 73.