From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Fri 12 Aug 1994 - 10:51:43 EEST
Sandy Petersen:
> The Holy Rokari, New Hrestoli Idealist, and Castle Coast
> sects do not permit the Tap spell at all.
Sure about that, Sandy? }B-) Actually, I'm not convinced that the HtWw1 doods didn't contrive the differences here for game purposes. (Though in this instance, I approve. <g>)
> The Borist heresy believes that it is all right to Tap a
> chaotic entity or a non-chaotic person who worships a chaos god.
> [...] Illuminates are
> definitely considered chaotic and fair game by the Borists.
This could get amusing if many Galvosti are illuminated themselves...
> >How about tapping animals? Is that evil? Or rather, why shouldn't
> >Nikolos learn a tap spell, if he intends to use it only on animals?
> Because it's cruel and evil to Tap animals, too, just like it
> would be to skin animals alive.
Hard to believe there's anything like the same amount on unanimity about this idea as compared to not tapping humans/intelligent beings, though. I suspect that even if not the official postion of any major sect, this is not exactly uncommon.
> Ha! I deny this. I don't think that the number of worshipers
> has ANYTHING to do with a deity's cosmic importance or might. So
> there. Nyah.
This argument would hold more water if there were some Cosmically Important deities with vanishishly small numbers of worshippers... (Sandy will now say "Arachne Solara!", but since she's not a manifest deity, the example should be somewhat hypothetical.)
> None as widespread, though. I think Issaries is the "Source"
> of the Communication Rune.
I note Sandy's gained some Uncertain Quotes round "Source" these days; I think his Faith Points in the greater gods must be dwindling. ;-)
FP 0,
Alex.
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