From: Curtis Shenton (curtiss@netcom.com)
Date: Thu 01 Sep 1994 - 06:06:03 EEST
I've been working on some ideas for my own nonRQ/nonGloranthan campaign
and have come up with something that would work pretty well for
Glorantha. It's sort of a variant Runepower system I suppose.
A worshipper sacrifices POW into a pool of Rune Power that they
can draw upon later. But the only spells they can cast are those they
have earned through various minihero quests. For example for an Orlanthi
to get Darkwalk they need to steal something from a Kygor Liter
worshipper. FOr a Humakt to get Beserk they might need to have fought a
foe or group of enemies that were more powerful then they or otherwise
been in some sort of combat where they expected to loose and die and yet
fought anyway. Not only would different religions have different quests
for the same spell but I assume that different temples would sometimes
have very specific quests you need to go on to get a spell. And some
spells you may just get access to because becoming an initiate of the
cult attunes you to some of the basics of the gods power. I suspect all
Orlanthi would be able to cast Cloud Call under this system for example.
Any comments or suggestions? Has someone already posted this
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