From: Joerg Baumgartner (joe@sartar.toppoint.de)
Date: Thu 04 Aug 1994 - 10:43:09 EEST
Sandy announced that and how he is tampering with the magic rules.
Cool; I liked most of the suggestions.
Eastern "sorcery" or better mysticism as an extension of skills: How close to the Land of Ni(nja/hon) Ki rules do you operate? Did Valkaro and the False Dragon Ring produce something like Taoist Sorcery in LoN? (I.e. western sorcery clothed into Eastern philosophy, but using western sorcery rules?)
Regaining divine magic: I agree about making holy days easy times to regain a lot of divine spells, but making them the only time to be able to regain them, but then all of them, seems a bit hard.
I'd still rule that a day of prayer is needed for each point of divine magic. Yet this doesn't exclude priests etc to regain all their divine magic on seasonal or high holy days. Since they effectively enter Godtime during the worship ceremony, they can spend as much subjective time in Godtime as they need to regather their powers from the appropriate places. Acolytes are less included in these Godtime affairs, and can regain less of their spells, and Rune Lords mustn't stray from the path of the deity, and shouldn't get more than one use of each spell during the ceremony.
The ordinary "pray all day" rule to regain a point of magic should be kept for priests - outside of the holy days. I'd allow one point of divine magic weekly to be regained by acolytes, while priests could do so daily. Otherwise, the magical service institutes called temples wouldn't be able to teach spells etc.
I'd like to have a variety of different speeds for regaining divine magic for the lower echelons of the hierarchy, but this debate is still active off-line with Alex.
Since it is decided that we produce a translation of Free INT articles, mine on regaining divine magic is on the list to be translated into English. It coincides with some things Sandy said on the Daily and Nick Brooke in Tales 12, but has a slightly different approach. I won't have to translate it now... <relieved sigh>
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-- Joerg Baumgartner joe@sartar.toppoint.de
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