From: Colin Watson (watson@computing-science.aberdeen.ac.uk)
Date: Wed 08 Dec 1993 - 18:31:50 EET
Personally, 20pts is more than enough to provoke an awe/terror reaction in me. Maybe I'm just easily impressed/scared.
Is there a Gloranthan version of a base (ie alkali) or is this not part of Gloranthan alchemy?
>Checking the new write-up in Dorastor,
>... some believe the god is still worshipped in secret, although most believe
>the god was destroyed.
It's interesting to see that some people are of the opinion that the cult
is destroyed in Time if the God is destroyed GodTime.
I'd say that the cult should still be able to worship the aspect of Nysalor
prior to his (alleged) death/destruction in GodTime. Assuming, of course, that
the worshippers have the insight to realise that this is possible...
If a god has existed and is still remembered then I'd say folks should
be able to worship him/her/it.
Nysalor won't really be gone until everyone has forgotten him and he
vanishes from everybody's past; then it'll be as if he never existed.
>"Since Nysalor is now only a shadow on the Spirit Plane, his
>initiates neither get nor receive spells and skills from
>associated cults without joining those cults"
Wish I knew what that "now only a shadow on the Spirit Plane" bit meant...
>The cult write up also states that Nysalor has no Rune Lords
>or Priests, making Divination dificult.
I guess initiates could Divine if they wanted to. Being one-use, it would be an expensive process getting enough practice to glean anything useful from old Nysalor.
>He would probably answer your questions with more questions.
Quite.
For the record, I really liked "Eldarad". I've only played it (not read it) so my impression could be more due to the work of the GM & the antics of the players rather than the material as published; however the GM who ran it for us considers it to be his favourite RQ publication. He ran it in his own (largely non-Gloranthan) campaign and it integrated really well (from the players point of view, at least). Some of the stats had to be toned-down, but that's par-for-the-course in published scenarios.
I get the impression that most of the published Gloranthan stuff is really nice to read, but only so-so to play.
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CW.
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