Focus

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The Focus Enchantment is immensely attractive to a caster of Spells, because it significantly lowers the RD of spellcasting attempts.

The Focus Enchantment is almost only available via the item creation method of Endowing (Satanic Rites can also create some Focus Enchantments, and possibly Divine Bless Item - this later has not yet been finally decided), and affects either a given set of Spells, from all Spells and down to a single Spell. The only effect of the Focus Enchantment is to lower the RD of Spellcasting attempts, that are covered by it, by the grade of the Focus Enchantment, but since this is typically an RD bonus of -2, -3 or -4, it helps a lot.

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+The Focus [[Enchantment]] is immensely attractive to a caster of [[Spell]]s, because it significantly lowers the RD of [[Spellcasting|spellcasting]] attempts.
+The Focus Enchantment is almost only available via the item creation method of [[Endowing]] ([[Satanic Rites]] can also create some Focus Enchantments, and possibly Divine Bless Item - this later has not yet been finally decided), and affects either a given set of Spells, from all Spells and down to a single Spell. The only effect of the Focus Enchantment is to lower the RD of Spellcasting attempts, that are covered by it, by the grade of the Focus Enchantment, but since this is typically an RD bonus of -2, -3 or -4, it helps a lot.
-The idea is to make it easy for the reader to decide whether this article is relevant to his current goals, so include hugely important advice here, in a second paragraph, if you think it is necessary.
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