From: Thom Baguley (T.S.Baguley@open.ac.uk)
Date: Wed 10 Nov 1993 - 19:10:58 EET
D. Cheng writes:
>Divine Intervention lacks the strict structure of Rune Magic,
>however. The worshipper burns off some POW and says "hey, big
>guy, help me out here!" This intervention by the deity, being
>less structured, is a bigger violation of the Compromise. To
>allow this to happen, you've got to sacrifice something: that
>being POW. Without the loss of POW, the god couldn't intervene
>at all. Otherwise, the gods would be granting their favorite
>servants all sorts of miracles.
This is my rationale for DI ... the power has to come from the worshipper because the God is bound by the compromise.
Thom
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