Nobilis errata

• Q. Can I affect another willing nobilis with a direct miracle?
  A. Yes (and you don't have to spend penetration)
• Q. Do radio waves and so on cross chancel lines?
  A. Not unless a miracle (or the imperator) makes them do so (power of Phone Lines, anyone?)
• Q. If somebody else gets ahold of my focus, can they use it?
  A. It depends on what's in the focus and whether the user is mortal or a Power/Excrucian. Anyone can use gifts from the focus. Aspect trait levels can be used by anyone; domain and realm can also (but note these give power over the focus's owner's domain/chancel, not the new holder's); spirit trait levels can be used by Powers/Excrucians. In the case of aspect and spirit trait levels, the new owner increases their trait by the amount in the focus, but can't get any higher than the old owner's trait (so if you have a 3 aspect and invest 2 levels in a focus, and then hand it to an aspect 0 mortal, they now have aspect 2 and you have aspect 1. if they then hand it to an aspect 2 nobilis, that nobilis now has aspect 3 (would be 4, but it's capped at your score)).
• Q. Speaking of focuses, how do they work?
  A. Ok, let's see. A focus is any item that you put some of your power into: this power can be anything you spend character points on, traits, gifts, or extra miracle points. The benefit of creating the focus is it becomes invested with some extra miracle points when created; the drawback is only the person who has the focus can use whatever is invested in it (including you, or somebody else if they steal it). The game mechanic behind this is a focus is considered a limitation, with the number of miracle points gained being equal to one-third of the number of character points of stuff invested in the focus. For instance, if you put in two levels of aspect and a 1-point gift, that's a total of 7 points invested, so the focus also has a reservoir of 7/3 = 3 miracle points. Careful not to misplace it! (And speaking of which, if the owner of a focus dies, the focus generally loses all power in a week or so; if the focus is destroyed, the owner generally gets their invested things back, but no guarantees they won't end up somewhere .. interesting).
• Q. Do magic and technology from your chancel work in the outside world?
  A. Yes, unless you get the chancel 1-point flaw "technology doesn't work outside"
• Q. Why is technology cheaper than magic?
  A. Two related reasons: because if you buy magic, you still get current-earth-levels of technology (unless you choose that your chancel doesn't have that), and because the advanced technology is working from a baseline of earth-level technology, whereas the magic is improving from a (non-zero but) much lower level.