From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Fri 26 Aug 1994 - 11:30:31 EEST
Matt Thale proposes:
> Spells that are normally one-use for priests and lords are not
> regainable by initiates, and the priest/lord must roll as an
> initiate to regain them.
I'm Strongly In Favour of Nick's idea for letting initiates regain rune magic, but I dislike the (admittedly apparently analogous) idea of letting one-use spells be regained (by priests). After all, if you want this sort of effect, you can effectively get it by mechanisms like those used for Enchant Thunderstone. Making _all_ magic eventually regainable seems Mythically Incorrect to me. Ruins all sorts of plotlines in the Mahabharata. Oops, wrong game world.
> At the moment, I'm not using Rune Power in any of its various forms.
> However, I'm seriously thinking about it. Currently, none of my
> players is rune level, so I don't really have to worry too much
> about Rune Power since I'd restrict it to Priests and Lords.
I don't think it does significant harm to let initiates have access to rune power; after all, they're the people least able to abuse it. (They'll have less, and won't be able to regain it (as fast)). Doubly so with my varient ((im)modest cough), since you have to have at least two "ordinary" spells before getting Rune Power would even make sense.
And I think that if your campaign level is initiatish, then allowing more flexible access to rune magic has at least some beneficial MGF impacts.
Alistair Langsford:
> On the Game Mechanics side, I like the modification that before a
> Divine spell could be cast from the RunePower Pool you had to have
> 'learned' it anyway, by sacrificing for it as you do now.
A recruit! ;-) Or was that a vote for Henk's idea? Where's my programme...?
> Perhaps the
> ability to create the RunePower Pool in the first place is a Divine
> Spell in the first place.
I have an allergic reaction to the term "Pool"; perhaps a nasty holdover from playing Champions many moons ago. And because the Anti-RP Faction like to use it as a term of abuse, I suppose. (Stand up, Sandy "Shapeless Undifferenciated Pool" Petersen, and hang your head. <g>) I preferred to regard it as Just Another Spell (sorta), itself.
Alex.
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