[Glorantha] Re: Glorantha Digest, Vol 12, Issue 274

• Original Message ----- From: David Dunham <david_at_a-sharp.com>

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> Actually, this looks like battlemagic/spirit magic/common magic
> (depending on whether you play RQ2/RQ3/HQ)...
>
> >Is this a Second Age difference?
>
> The spell descriptions all suspiciously resemble earlier editions of RQ...
>

Uncannily similar.

> My guess is that since the name of the game is RuneQuest, they wanted
> a way to emphasize runes.

Throughout Runequest and into Heroquest the need for spell foci/charms/talismans/whatever has been in the system, it looks like Mongoose have decided to make that a larger part of the game and use it to create story hooks - and as you suggest tie it in with the name of the game. I don't know to what extent these physical foci are a part of Greg's Gloranthan vision but they seem to have made it into all the paper RPG incarnations of the world in some form, this just looks like a new and slightly different form.

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Nic