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Yep, you need an advancement mark in the relevant School to learn a spell and one Shift of time, P61

The key part of this is that Skills cannot have more than one advancement mark at a time. With magic you must choose, learn 1 spell or increase the Skill.

This is an issue with all the YZE games with a push/condition mechanic. For these type encounters I try to introduce alternative side effects - for example they get a reputation driving a hard bargain or being stingy. You could also rule that these are similar to passive rolls and cannot be pushed.

I'm running this at the moment too, and Handout 3D doesn't exist. I get the feeling that that particular mystery was pared down before publication.

Mages can't use metal weapons and cast spells, so I believe that the intention was to create a character without any weapons

I feel that Manipulation requires dialogue and is intended for one-to-one or small social encounters. Inspiration is intended for addressing groups and probably better suited to addressing multiple combatants. So if you have a one on one dual like in Princess Bride then Manipulation would work but a...

I'm running a Vaesen game using Roll20 and the character sheet developed by Starships&Steel - upgraded by Velczer
However the Vaesen tab looks to have a bug in the Attacks section whereby the Use butting doesn't roll any dice. The Conditions stack also doesn't modify any dice rolls.

Cheers

FWIW I'd go for it, perhaps make it an optional extra or add a bit for the item using just the core rules. good luck with it!

Pushing is a re-roll of the original check sans 6's, you therefore cannot add bonus dice after the fact.

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