Dorastor in the UK, Spell Prices, Minotaurs and Divergence

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From: JARDINE@RMCS.CRANFIELD.AC.UK
Date: Mon 20 Sep 1993 - 13:11:00 EEST

Ref: X-RQ-ID: 1735 (Niel Harold?)

Dorastor is available at Virgin Games Centres priced 18 pounds, Esdevium charges about 19 pounds and others seem to charge up to 20 pounds!

Ref: X-RQ-ID: 1737 (Chris Cooke)

        Keep up the good work converting the heathen.

Two points:

  1. Cost of spirit magic = 30 + 15 per point; so that the first point costs 45 the second costs 60 etc. Thus Heal 6 costs 45+60+75+90+105+120 = 495 L!

Also remember that these spells must be won from a spell spirit with an average of 2 POW for each point of spell. Thus PCs are unlikely to have spells of more points than half their POW.

2) Watch out for the minotaur! At the moment he may appear cute and mostly harmless but watch out. With some STR training his damage bonus may get pretty horrendous and couple this with a pole axe and bladesharp 4 (5 or 6D6 + 4) and you have a definate problem. Also never let him near the Storm Bull cult as they would just love to have him (train him, armour him, indocrinate him, psyche him up and point him at chaos and say kill it!). Remember that minotaursgo berserk very easily and then it is strike with weapon and head butt each round.

I only warn you about this because I allowed my brother to play a beginning minotaur (with a few gifts and a bit of training) with a party of runelevels. (This was after his Storm Kahn had been killed in a fight with a PC Humakti!) Anyway a couple of adventures down the road and they were on this Giant's Cradle floating down the Zola Fel. When the Lunar Governor's Guard (All 90% in full plate armour, shield 2, hoplite shield, fireblade on their spears etc.) attacked along a dwarf assault ladder the minotaur countercharged them. Waited till he received a minor wound/ made a special attack and went berserk. He then proceded along the ladder killing one or two a round, note the first one never got a chance to strike him because he was BIG, dextrous and used a pole axe, the second one would get to strike a blow just before the horns got to him. The pole axe was doing about 6d6+6 damage at about 200% attack (needless to say not many survived), the horns were doing 4d6+4 at about 130% attack so a fair number survived these, only to get the pole axe next round.

So there you go, he may be cute and fluffy when he is young, but baby minotaurs grow into big minotaurs and they cause big trouble. I recommend that the safest place for him is behind bars in a zoo.

>Nick

        While I agree about cult divergence etc. it is worth noting that Glorantha has only had 1600 years to diverge in. Look at christianity it has split all over the place and different factions have even used this as an excuse to kill each other. BUT most christians would admit that they worship the same god as the other guys, even though they are the only ones who are doing it correctly!


Lewis
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