Priests POW Level

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From: Chris Johnson [RQ] (rq%flamal@icarus.ssd.loral.com)
Date: Tue 12 Jul 1994 - 12:19:42 EEST


>From: alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk (alex)
>X-RQ-ID: 5086
>

[...]
>> There is no reason under RQ3 for a Priest to keep his POW at 18. Better
>>spent
>> on Divine Magic AND better kept at around 13 so that POW gain rolls occur
>> about 60% of the time.
>
>But you're a follower of the True Religion of RQ2, Devin, aren't you? ;-)
>Certainly I recall you making statements such as "priests making their DI
>roll about 18% of the time".
>
>Personally, I believe priests _do_ need a high POW, to effectively officiate
>at Worship services. I think I suggested a mechanism or two last time this
>came up. My personal Nightmare Scenario is a priest sitting in a back-room
>somewhere, with a POW of 2, getting 5 POW per year just from worship
>ceremonies...

An Idea! If we use a function of the Priest's POW as a modifier to their Cermony skill, we can *encurage* the Priest to keep a higher POW.

If we sum up the Priests POW (sum(18) = 1+2+3+...+17+18 = 171) we get a modifier that encurages higher POWs. This could be the % chance of attracting the Gods attention or something. If we subtract 100 from it we can get a Cermony Modifier. So a Priest with a POW of 13 and Cermony of 95% would have a 86% (95-9) chance of correctly running the Worship service, while a Priest with a POW of 18 and Cermony of 60% would have a 131% (60+71) chance. Who would you want to officiate? 

POW      Sum(POW)       Sum(POW) - 100
 1           1                -99
 2           3                -97
 3           6                -94
 4          10                -90
 5          15                -85
 6          21                -79
 7          28                -72
 8          36                -64
 9          45                -55
10          55                -45
11          66                -34
12          78                -22
13          91                 -9
14         105                  5
15         120                 20
16         136                 36
17         153                 53
18         171                 71
19         190                 90
20         210                110
21         231                131

-Chris
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