I was looking, but I couldn't find an answer one way or another, but can a Ronin develop a personal totem? I know they are shunned even in the spiritual world, but it does mention in W20 that Wyld, and Triatic spirits are more likely to deal with a Ronin than others, in particular spirits of solitary animals. So I was trying to figure out if it'd be possible for a Ronin to get a personal totem of some of the Totems that are normally shunned by werewolves, such as Bear.

I'm thinking about implementing the optional Long-term Scrutiny rules from Signs of Sorcery in my game but I'm not sure how a couple of factors would interact with them:

1. If you are normally limited in your Mana expenditure for Scrutiny to your per-turn limit, would this no longer apply if you increased the interval.

2. If you use the long term Scrutiny, does it eliminate any downside to using multiple Arcana in your Scrutiny roll. I've actually always been a little vague on how that works anyway. But was thinking maybe using the multiple Arcana might be the factor...

Channel Essence (Spirit 2) says "this spell allows the mage to draw Essence into her Pattern from a Resonant Condition". Is there a limitation on using this? The condition itself says "this Condition is common", so can a mage just basically walk around sucking up Essence of different Resonances (holding up to his Gnosis derived maximum) ?

After that, is there anything to stop him from giving the Essence to his Familiar, who can give it back as Mana? I know a couple of points are lost in the transfer, but a little inefficiency doesn't seem to get in the way.