Forgive me... Noob question

Originally posted by JJ_Colorado:
Hi,

I'm a newbie too and have been frankly too intimidated by the (possibly imagined) complexities of communion spell to try it yet so this discussion is a great help. I have other questions.

It is complex, especially the fatigue portion of it. But these questions I can answer.

What happens if there are two slaves and one passes out? Does master lose empowerment? Does all fatigue go to the "awake" one and the "sleeping" one gets none?

If one slave passes out and the other does not, nothing happens. The point at which something does happen with the distribution is one dies. (At 200 Fatigue, a unit will start to take damage and afflictions, too much fatigue after 200 that unit will die). When one dies, all the fatigue would then be distributed between just the Master and 1 Slave, though the exact #'s are hard to say right now when I can't do a test run.

What happens if there are two slaves and both pass out? Does master lose +1 path empowerment?

Slaves that are passed out, still apply their Empowerment bonus. Slaves that die, do not.

What happens if 4 mages cast communion slave and 2 cast communion master? are both masters empowered by +2 path?

Both Masters are empowered to +2 Path. But the Fatigue from 2 sets of spells (Cast from the Master) apply to the Slaves. This can be done by any number of Master/Slaves. So you could have 10 Masters/ 2 Slaves, each Master getting +1 Path and splitting their fatigue between the 2 Slaves (They will die early).

My most used fashion of playing with Communion is Groups of 4 Slaves (+2 Path) and 2 (4 If Pythium) Masters.