RuneQuest Daily, Wed, 03 Aug 1994, part 1

From: Michael C. Morrison 8-543-4706 (mmorrison@VNET.IBM.COM)
Date: Thu 04 Aug 1994 - 23:17:02 EEST


Subject: Sandy's Current Divine Magic Rules

Sandy, are you saying that initiates and priests ONLY get a POW gain roll on holy days? Are POW checks gone in your system?

I'm in a campaign where one character is the high priest of a Storm Bull shrine and who has many initiates who help tend the shrine. We recently had a major threat to the Shrine that forced the high priest to lead us into battle -- and all the initiates sacrificed for one-use Rune Magic. Your rules would have allowed the initiates to have sacrificed for the spells long ago (and allow them to be reusable) but would only allow them to recover them on HDs or HHDs. This clearly simplifies things for our NPCs of the Shrine.

But what about the PCs? If they can only get a POW gain roll once or 5 times a year -- and do they *need* to have had a POW check to get this roll, or do they automatically get a gain roll? -- I can see my PCs having different spells learnt and in mind, different battle tactics, and *much* less Rune Magic than in the old rules. Is this true of your game? It sounds more Pendragon-ish in its execution. Not bad, mind you, just different :-)

Michael


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