I’ve read the Spiritualist Path Power for the Hedgewitch in Ultimate Spheres of Power, and I want to make sure I understand the limits of the power.
As written:
“The spiritualist’s may channel spirit allies into herself, temporarily gaining their knowledge and power. As a standard action, she may grant herself the benefit of any one magic talent she does not possess. This effect lasts for 1 minute per hedgewitch level. The spiritualist must possess that talent’s base sphere and meet any prerequisites (if an advanced talent).
She may use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 +1/2 her hedgewitch level (minimum 1).”
Question 1: Is “the benefit” of the talent granting just one activation, or is it granting knowledge of the talent to use as often as I can within the time limit? As written, it seems like it is a single activation, but one of the optional Path Secrets you can later select for the class is worded as follows:
“Infuse Other: As a standard action, she may touch a willing target and spend 2 uses of the spiritualism path power to grant knowledge of a magic talent to that ally for 1 minute. The target must possess the casting class feature and uses its own spell points and caster level if granted a magic talent”.
It would be odd if you could grant an ally better access than you could obtain yourself, but if it was meant to be the same thing, I can’t work out why clearer language (“knowledge of a magic talent”) wasn’t used in both instances.
Question 2: If the power grants “the benefit” of the talent, do I need to also spend spell points to activate it?
In this case I think the correct answer would depend on the answer to Question 1. If “the benefit” is a single activation, then possibly the concept of “the benefit” was meant to include the activation cost. If the “the benefit” is knowledge of a magic talent that can be activated multiple times then it wouldn’t be reasonable to expect the spell point cost to be included.
Thanks for taking the time to read my question.
