Concentration the Trait and Concentrate on a spell


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While playing the third adventure in the playtest our group ran across a problem. One of the enemies has the Vanish ability which has the concentration trait. The problem we ran into was some interperted the concentration trat as the same as the concentrate on a spell action. While after looking over everything we eventually determined that the trait is not affiliated with the concetrate on a spell action in any way other than in name. Using the same/extremely similar termonology for two very seperate things caused the confusion.

After our conversation we thougth that the best way to clear up any issue would be to change the key word concentrate to a different key word. We thought Focus would be a great term having essentially the same conotation and getting us away from the overlapping terms. Leaving concentrate referring only to spells with concentration as a duration.

Not sure if anyone else has ran into the issue but this was one we stumbled across and had use pouring over the rulebook to try to figure out an answer. Hopefully some others others agree.

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