From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Tue 23 Aug 1994 - 02:40:07 EEST
Klaus O K:
> alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk (Alex Ferguson) writes:
> >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.
> In Sun County farmers are not tempted to move the stones marking the
> borders of their fields (to steal a bit of land from their neighbours),
> since that would dispell their Bless Crops spells. This must mean that
> a very large number of fields, probably all, are blessed. It also means
> that Yelmalion society is not very trusting of the honesty of farmers.
I forget exactly what Sun County says about this, but one could at least argue that it's a special case, being in a woefully unfertile area, and more to the point, doubtless prone to otherwise-disasterous droughts.
Lewis:
> 2) (Someone else) I would never have initiates roll to see whether
> they regained a point of divine magic if they attended their cults
> high holy day ceremony. It entails entirely unnecessary dice rolling
> in a completely inappropriate area. The ONLY person who should roll
> is the officiating Priest or Acolyte and if he was not a PC I would
> determine the result NON-randomly.
This seems to suggest that an individual worshipper has nothing to do with the success, either collective or individual, or hir worship. I disagree with this, though I'm sure that for a Mere Initiate, the effects of the participating rune levels would doubtless dominate. At the moment, the best I could come up with would be something vaguely like the Pendragon Battle system. Though with fewer missing table-explanations.
> 4) (Same person) worried about the leathality of Humakti un this system.
Not I, if I'm the person being cited in 3). Humakti Lethality <-- Good thing.
> a) I WOULD allow Humakti to DI for someone's DEATH under the old rules.
Go directly to the Maw of Chaos, do not pass Compromise, do not collect 200 Death Fame. ;-) Greggamus tuem maxima, greggamus tuem maxima...
Joerg:
> Alex Ferguson ignores his ready access to source material in X-RQ-ID: 5768
> > For
> > example, I tend to imagine that the Sun Burn wasn't carried out by someone
> > going round Sun Spearing every tree in the forest individually from 100 paces
> > away. (Mutatis mutandis, "Moon Burn", at least if MOB's to be believed.)
> Sun Burn in Erigia, Moon Burn at Rist. And damn right they were, after the
> Aldryami landgrabbing ventures of the late 560s... (Old grudges die hard
> in Glorantha)
What I was referring to is whether there's a "Moon Spear" spell exactly analogous to Sun Spear. I gather MOB reckons so. BTW, the less-corny- sounding name Sky Burn is used, so I hereby retcon the above to read thatwaywise.
Alex.
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