Occultist Implement Sharing


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I have a question regarding a hypothetical scenario.

Say you have a game with two occultist characters. Occultist 1 adds his focus to one of his implements for the day and then hands it off to occultist 2. Can occultist 2 use the stored focus as his/her own or do they only gain the resonant bonuses?


the relevant rules wrote:
The implement grants its resonant power to whoever possesses it; the occultist can lend the implement to an ally to assist that ally, but if he does so, he has difficulty casting that implement's spells (see Implements) and can't expend that implement's focus on focus powers until he retrieves the implement or refreshes his focus.

Even though it doesn't say so explicitly, I'd say this paragraph makes it pretty clear that the holder of the implement only gets the resonant powers, regardless of class.

Grand Lodge

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Darwin Doppelganger wrote:

I have a question regarding a hypothetical scenario.

Say you have a game with two occultist characters. Occultist 1 adds his focus to one of his implements for the day and then hands it off to occultist 2. Can occultist 2 use the stored focus as his/her own or do they only gain the resonant bonuses?

Implements are like your toothbrush. You don't share them.


My next Occultist will be named Ford Prefect and his implements will be a toothbrush, his towel, a book that says "Don't Panic" on the cover and a restaurant menu.


Dark Psion wrote:
My next Occultist will be named Ford Prefect and his implements will be a toothbrush, his towel, a book that says "Don't Panic" on the cover and a restaurant menu.

fluff one of the summons as a deeply depressed self loathing neigh immortal robot like creature

Sovereign Court

Thread necro activated!

--> has anyone come up with smart/efficient combos that let you 'pass the bottle around' (i.e. pass the implement around :P) and do it so it's back in your hands whenever it's your turn? any rule against multiple bookplates of recall inside your implement's cover? :P


Wow, that’s some strong necro. Nice to see I’ve been here for so long.

Your post isn’t related to the topic of the OP, so you should open a new thread. That being said, I think using an implement with the returning quality and throwing it at a party member with Snatch Arrow works by RAW, though no GM should play it that way.

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