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In Very High Mana, should maintaining a spell tire the caster?

It's always up to the GURPS GM to specify how magic works in their campaign. The default way GURPS 4e works is that bodily fatigue points (not powerstone FP) spent on spells (both casting and ...
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Can energy from Lend Energy be banked like that from paut?

No, Lend Energy's effect description has two sentences, one of which says that it can't do that: "Restores the subject’s lost Fatigue Points, at an energy cost to the caster. Cannot increase the ...
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Is it possible to coordinate castings this way?

No, that's something Lend Energy cannot do. As you wrote, Bob could learn the more advanced spell Share Energy to help Alice that way (assuming that that spell is known and available to Bob in the ...
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Can a mage in Body of Air cast a spell that doesn't require gestures?

The GM has overriding authority, but it does seem worth asking him about that rule (Basic Set p237, "Skill 15-19", GURPS Magic has the same rule on p8). The -1 to effective skill for having Body of ...
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In Very High Mana, should maintaining a spell tire the caster?

Here's an answer from the GURPS line editor, on the SJ Games GURPS forum: The intent behind very high mana is that any personal FP spent on magic regenerates one second after being spent. Whether &...
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Can energy from Lend Energy be banked like that from paut?

Agree with Dronz, but adding some extra information. The reason against banking would be that it would potentially allow multiple people to Lend Energy to build up a bank in order to cast an overly ...
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How would learning Share Energy unbalance GURPS Dungeon Fantasy/DFRPG?

The Share Energy spell is already part of the DFRPG. You can find it in the healing college of the Spells book, and it is available for all casters. But I would hesitate to use anything more efficient ...
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