{"id":"mage/power/rote/casting-magick-to-find-that-perfect-moment","type":"power","system":"rote","line":"mage","name":"Casting Magick to Find “That Perfect Moment”","sources":[{"source":"HDYDT","page":110}],"entries":["In all cases, the mage must first successfully perform the Effect – using her typical focus – before the difficulty can be reduced. And so, the speed at which the mage can spot that opportunity will depend a lot on what she needs to do in order to use that magick. A faith-practicing mage could speak a brief prayer to her patron deity before she acts, while a temporal technician needs to feed data into her computer and run a program before the correct moment becomes obvious to her.","Because it would require casting two magickal Effects at once, {@rote The Perfect Moment|HDYDT|the Perfect Moment} feat CANNOT be used to lower the difficulty of spellcasting Arete rolls – ONLY for the timing of mundane activities. It may, however, be used to lower the difficulty of a ritual if and when the feat gets used to prepare the rite ahead of time. (See"],"tags":["hdydt","feat"],"_qa":{"flags":[],"parser":"headed_entries","confidence":0.9,"extracted":"2026-10-12","job":"hdydt-feats"},"level":null,"_links":{"self":"/api/v1/records/mage/power/rote/casting-magick-to-find-that-perfect-moment","html":"/records/mage/power/rote/casting-magick-to-find-that-perfect-moment","parent":null,"children":"/api/v1/records/mage/power/rote/casting-magick-to-find-that-perfect-moment/children","sources":[{"abbr":"HDYDT","page":110,"folio":110,"title":"How Do You DO That?"}]},"_db":{"title":"Casting Magick to Find “That Perfect Moment”","props":[],"parent_id":null,"level":null,"category":null,"summary":"In all cases, the mage must first successfully perform the Effect – using her typical focus – before the difficulty can be reduced. And so, the speed at which the mage can spot that opportunity will depend a lot on what","tags":["feat","hdydt"],"children":[]}}