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What's the best foci you've seen/used? I'm tired of bullshit like boring magic rings that are just used because they're easy to say you always have them on. There's never any flavour to them, no reason why the foci is that shape or how the design helps with the magic being used.

Pic related- my current hermetic mage, who understands magic through musical theory. His earrings (made of a wide variety of bone, wood, and metal) are Spell Shaping Foci, as he uses the sound of them vibrating and rubbing together to help him get more precise with his magic. He also has a native tom-tom as a Sustaining Foci; he drums out a beat that keeps on going, the rhythm keeping his spell going subconsciously.

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>What's the best foci you've seen/used?
I had a flask sealed with lead. Not sure what was inside, and it was a force 3 power focus so I wasn't exactly in the mood to take it apart to check.

Never tried some sort of future spectrography to see through it?

Living Foci Best Foci

I was just reading over how Changeling characters work in "Run Faster" and i can't wrap my head around it.

Am I paying Karma for this or are the negative qualities balancing it out? Is it something completely different?

Living Foci? What book is that in?

You pay the initial karma cost of your type of SURGE (be it I, II, or III)
Then you either randomly select, or select, you positive and negative SURGE traits, which must balance each other out (with 1 karma leeway so you could have 7 positive karma worth of traits and 6 negative), with a maximum karma limit on positive/negative traits equal to 30 (so at max you can have 30 karma worth of positive traits, and 30 worth of negative traits)
You pay the initial cost, everything else just needs to balance out.

I get it now. I guess I'll go for a SURGE III to make me as snowflake as possible.

That's generally what people go for considering the others are random.
Make sure your GM is okay with SURGE though and understand what it entails, since you're going to be exceptionally memorable and take extreme amounts of social penalties most likely.

He's already said it's good but the more effort I put into this the less sure I am that it's a good idea for a character.

I guess there's only one way to find out though.