From: Peter Metcalfe, CAPE Canty (CHEN190@csc.canterbury.ac.nz)
Date: Mon 15 Aug 1994 - 06:55:01 EEST
>What we need is a new magic system for non-personal communal divine magic.
I like this idea and have a proposeal which should keep changes minimal.
Colin watson wrote
My idea is this:
The Temple defense spells provide an appropiate mechanism. There you have 1 pt of rune magic per 100 people and it regenerates daily. I suggest that this change to all spells for whatever reason.
Thus a Chalana Arroy healer instead of churning out Runespells and praying for them would simply cast a three hour ceremony to ressurrect someone and the temple would regain it three days later. The Bless crops would only be a one hour ceremony which would start from the temple to the fields to be blessed. this allows the Priests to concentrate on learning personal divine magic. This would force the farmers to group closer together but who cares.
The choice of what spells to perform comes into the hands of the Ruling Priest which makes that job more sought after.
As the rule makes no distinction between reusuable and one-use spells, this would mean cultural quirks like in the Lunar Empire, you don't go to the chalana Arroy temple but to the Deezola or Yelm temple which are likely to be more numerous.
Comments?
Peter Metcalfe
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