Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20160711184711/@comment-27618538-20160812024424

... Lordie you are deadset but no, pretty sure he's never summoned a sword or fireballs so no o.o

o.o Reads like you did to me, you're forgetting about the passive. Tacticle Reading is not only just to tell who's touched what, but if the object is whole or not- in the case of combat- if the cards have a complete image or not (not that they wouldn't check beforehand).

And you seemed to have missed the examples for the most part: a fireball drawn on paper with just a pencil will lack color but it can still be used as a projection, just won't look the same of course as a stylized graphic art fireball. And a whole dummy could be anything from a straw lookalike to just a troll face pillow- obviously if the user forgot some lines in haste, it won't work because the circuit is incomplete.

The passive has more of a heavy use than I think is typically expected; it's used to identify whether or not the card/image about to be used is complete- and even if it was meant to be drawn with a few lines missing. It's what the mind registers as complete- we can see words scrambled in the middle but the first and last letter, which we can still use to actually read the word.

Again, it's like a circuit- if there is a break in it- not by design, then it won't work because the medium for the projection is not whole.