From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Fri 19 Aug 1994 - 08:29:24 EEST
Sandy:
> Source Runes" once more. Deities who are an Origin, and have their
> Rune doubled, are NOT the original source of that Rune. Deities who
> are an Origin, and have their Rune along with an infinity Rune ARE
> the original source of that Rune.
As an en passant blow in my continuing suspicion that the \infty rune _really_ means "member of the Celestial Court", I postulate that the latter property would be much more readily determined RuneQuest Sight than the former. Avoids picky questions about whther certain "original owners" were Real Gods, Philopsophical Constructs, Or What, at least.
> The other
> disadvantages of having a Moose tribe, such as making the players
> crack up, I feel to outweigh the advantages.
Isn't this a Good Thing in MGF terms?
> Tim Minas
> >Someone asked at Convulsion what would happen if you killed all the
> >Hyenas in the wastes, would Genert come back? Greg said, yes,
> >probably.
> On the other hand, don't forget WHY Genert had Hyena eat him.
> I see no reason to suppose that his original reasoning isn't still
> valid, in which case the resurrection of Genert could lead to
> Genert's death and the takeover of a chaotic land-god.
I think that Greg actually said that if you assembled all Genert's bits, he _might_ then be recreatable, not that a pile of hyena would instantly reform into the god. I'd imagine that you have to dissect all the hyena up to get the Genert bits, stitch 'em all together, cast Heal 2,000,000, and then Ressurection MMM. Throw in a world-shattering heroquest for good luck.
> I said:
> >> But in any case, if the wizard leads services for the
> >> Invisible God, I'd give him a POW gain roll every Sacred Time.
> Alex wonders:
> >Hrm. Why?
> Here am my reasons. Firstly, it seems Bad to force wizards to
> have to adventure or summon up evil spirits in order to get POW gain
> rolls.
Probably, but then, they don't really need 'em, as you pointed out. If they have a regular supply, they're only going to go pump out lots oa magical enchantments...
> Secondly, whatever it is that gives Priests a
> POW gain roll should work via the Invisible God as well.
Hardly follows. Immanent vs. transcendental, that kinda guff. After all, the IG worship ceremony doesn't (obviously) _contact_ the IG...
> Heck,
> probably organized worship of ANYTHING that really exists on another
> plane of existence will get you a POW gain roll as your soul strives
> to breach the invisible veil between the realms.
How uplifting. ;-) Now, if you'd said "Well, he shovels lots of mps somewhere, just like a Priest does", I might have believed you... ;-)
Michael C. Morrison:
> Alex asks for a definition of greg (the noun form). How's this?:
> 2b. a unit of measure that describes how much has been
> written by Greg Stafford about a particular topic; can be
> measured in words, pages, or multiples of either.
This is roughly the sense I meant, though as a SI unit, it leaves something to be desired. I still don't know how I'm going to calibrate my maps marked in Isogregs...
> greg (adj) - correct, according to published and unpublished writings
> of Greg Stafford.
> greg (adv) - in a correct manner, according to published and unpublished
> writings of Greg Stafford.
Surely both "Gregly".
Alex.
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