From: G. Fried (address.removed@nowhere.tld)
Date: Fri 08 Oct 1993 - 18:05:57 EET
G. Fried here.
The SB and the Zebra-rider:
Opportunity melee is one way to handle this. Alternatively, I use a rule
whereby a character can try to make a 'hasty' attack before his proper SR.
For each SR 'early' the attack is made, subtract 10% (or 5% if you think
reasonable) from the attack skill.
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Colin (I think):
You ask whether gods' physical manifestation, such as Yelm as the Sun,
violates the Compromise, since they still obtrude upon the world. It seems
to me that the Compromise guaranteed each diety's dominion over his or her
domain, and that for many gods, this domain is a very real thing (Sun, Earth,
Storm, Winter, etc). So, Yelm killing you with Sunstroke is legal under the
COmpromise. What the gods cannot do is, ON THEIR OWN, employ the powers of
their domain to rearrange the balance of divine power. Only their mundane
worshipers may do this. Or the Red Goddess!
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Allan:
In your discussion of spirits on the SP getting really huge, you touch upon
an issue that really bothers me and that I have raised in the past, to no
avail. You mention that a spirit with 1000 POW will have trouble finding
another spirit in the range 990-1010 to get a POW gain check from. Notice an
absolutely absurd implication of the current rules: an entity of POW 1000
will always (excluding statistical miracles) lose to a being of POW 1010 --
even though there is only a 1% difference between them!!! This makes NO
sense to me. It is a problem even at relatively low levels of POW (tho
levels never attained by players.... say, 50 vs 60 POW). What this tells me
is that table for the Resistence Roll was created for the RQ game with
creatures in mind who all have POW (and indeed other STATS) within a fairly
restricted range. The system breaks down once you get values much above 30.
Any ideas for fixes that get at the proportional values of STATS? I have
one, but it is a fairly radical departure from RQ, so I will post it only if
interest is shown...
GF out.
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