From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Fri 19 Aug 1994 - 07:32:19 EEST
Klaus O K:
> But my point was that this is the only way to do it. Due to the death of
> Genert, Bless Crops spells are (is?) a must for farming in Genertela.
> You need an unrealistic number of acolytes to get the fields blessed
> by personal spells.
Last I heard, this idea, that Bless Crops is De Rigeur was being touted by Joerg, as a Forcing Argument for _his_ pet theories, about how everyone in sight should be a pantheon initiate and get a reusable Bless Crops. Wanna fight to the death for it? ;-)
Lewis:
> Anyone initiated into the worship of a god may perform a limited DI for
> the effects of one of the god's divine magic spells. This form of DI is
> much more likely to work as it is virtualy indistinguishable from the
> normal casting of divine magic so the god does it on a routine basis.
I definitely favour this idea, hence my vague allusions to such in my RPT message. However, since this is actually yet more flexible (though less reliable) than Rune Power, I'm not sure how things'll come out in the game- balance wash.
> The chance of the effect is POW * 3 for initiates, *4 for acolytes and *5 for
> rune levels. The cost is the normal cost in POW for the spell. However,
> the spell is cast on a one-use basis (non-reusable spells cost double!).
This could get a bit nasty; anyone fancing tangling with a Humakti under these rules? I'd considered something like this approach myself, but I'm leery of introducing yet a _third_ system for RM/DI: ideally, I'd like a more unified approach to the two not-so-distinct phenomena.
Joerg and I were batting around some such ideas, but I don't think either of us had convinced ourselves, much less the other. In RQ:AiG, btw, this was to be the _only_ form of DI available... (in one draft, at least).
On a more mundane note, I'd say one-use spells should cost at least _treble_ the points as reusable spells; I'm also not quite clear on what's intended here wrt initiates and priests using the same spell: do they pay the same cost in POW? Or can initiates only use "reusable" spells? (And pay double POW for those?)
> From: Argrath@aol.com
> Re: Alex's Dave-and-Nick-borrowed Rune Power system
> Very much liked the DI rules, though perhaps only
> priests get to count all their power pool toward the chance.
> Here are some variations I have been thinking about, but hadn't
> gotten written up yet:
Well, I hadn't worked out any of those details to my satisfaction, hence my masterful vagueness. I was thinking of a tapered scale of bonuses for everyone, but bunging in a bonus for >Initiate-levels. My real niggles were working out the POW loss in a way I liked...
I also intended to incorporate religious traits into the system: David D., how do you do DI in Pendragon Pass?
Alex.
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