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[BornKrazi]

I've never heard of it... not sayin it can't be done.

[kv]

It was my understanding that mages didn't really have a good way to communicate with people outside the astral while projecting.

Although I have heard of a mage using a spirit's service to have them relay messages back and forth from the mage to the team.

I think the rules were designed that way so it was possible to communicate, but not easy.

  -kv

[Curris]

So, there goes the plan to beat the cell phone companies. . .

I suppose I could still Mindlink. . .

[ROOTless]

The answer is yes and no, as I recall.
What you want is on p. 173 of the core SR3 book (I'm assuming SR3 here, seeing as how I consider SR4 a nightmare legend along the lines of Highlander 2).
You cannot manifest as per the spirit power, with all those condition.

But you can become visible/audible to creatures in the real world.
This is a manabased ("psychic") effect, and machines will ignore you, and you will be intanglible, so can't move stuff about.
You're still astal, so you can't even cast spells at non-astral targets (I think), but you can indeed communicate with your team.

Please remember though that probably less than 1% of the total population are trained magicians, and even fewer are full magicians, capable of full astral projection.
As opposed to cell phones, which will soon outnumber humans, if they don't already.

[Gabriel]

ROOTless beat me to that one.

Gabriel

[Curris]

Thank you. Very helpful.

[Gabriel]

You might want to keep this in mind, however, Curris: an astral projection is a projection of a pwerson's impression of himself and a reflection of his/her emootions and whatnot. All of this means that when you DO manifest in front of someone, you don't really look like your meat self. You look like your essence. It makes perfect sense to a mage/shaman/etc. Think of it as a decker's avatar. And when you pop up in front of someone looking like a glowing lion with the face of an elf, well, that might get a bit uncomfortable for any mundane looking on.

Gabriel

[Fortune]

Just a quick note concerning Force 1 exclusive Spells. I emailed the Powers-that-be about the cost issue a couple of years ago, and the official word is that there is no Karma/BP cost for these Spells. A general suggestion was included in the response advising that the GM limit the number of these Force 1 restricted Spells at chargen (only) to a handful or so.

Oh, and hi.

[ROOTless]

Just a quick note concerning Force 1 exclusive Spells. I emailed the Powers-that-be about the cost issue a couple of years ago, and the official word is that there is no Karma/BP cost for these Spells. A general suggestion was included in the response advising that the GM limit the number of these Force 1 restricted Spells at chargen (only) to a handful or so.

Oh, and hi.