From: John R. Snead (jsnead@netcom.com)
Date: Sat 05 Apr 1997 - 01:42:31 EEST
Arf <A.R.Wilson@herts.ac.uk> wrote:
>> From: "John R. Snead" <jsnead@netcom.com>
>>
>> With the recent talk of just how alien various non-humans on Glorantha
>> are I thought it might be useful to discuss just what non-humans are
>> suitable for play in parties which interact with humans (ie most folks
>>on Glorantha).
>My choices for *playable* non-human characters would be:
Which issue of ToTRM? (Clearly one I don't have :(
So, in what way are Hsunchen non-human? In all the published material
I've toyed with the idea of making the various Hsunchen shapechange spells
>Hsunchen: I don't count these guys as human, but I notice they're not on
>your list. One of my players has a Basmoli character based upon the
>description in ToTRM. I think these are good for inexperienced
>role-players as they can start off fairly one-dimensional and are easy
>to flesh out. (as is the case IMG)
(expect for possibly that ToTRM article, which I'd *LOVE* someone to send
me a synopsis of) they are portrayed as band-level groups with specific
animal totems. The only odd thing being that some of them can actually
turn into their totem animals on rare occasions.
reusable for Initiates and perhaps less costly. 6 pts of power for 15
minutes as a lion seems less than useful, and to imply a pretty distant
connection between the Hsunchen and their totem.
Even if you allow Hsunchen to have a version of the Aranea & Gorakiki
spell Transform Self (a sensible idea IMHO), it now costs 8 pts of Pow to
transform into your totem animal for 6 hours. A bit more mythic, but
unless it's reusable for all Hsunchen initiates, its not something anyone
other than the Shamans will likely ever do.
Comments, Ideas, Suggestions???
- -John Snead jsnead@netcom.com
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