From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Fri 04 Nov 1994 - 01:13:36 EET
Simon Hibbs issues the following unsolicited testimonial:
> As a shaman, I would keep a copy of the 'visibility' spell handy
> at all times. Very usefull to cast either on yourself while
> discorporate, or on your fetch.
I don't think the second one works; surely this presupposes the fetch acts as a (discorporate) spirit in its own right.
> I have been thinking about deities in their
> role as parent figures, super-adults.
I think you want Freud for this one, Simes, not these namby-pambies Campbell and Jung. ;-)
David Dunham:
> Nick Brooke said
> >If I were using an annual Economics table (like the Pendragon and PDP
> >ones), the amount of Priests' RunePower spent for the benefit of the
> >community would be a modifier to annual prosperity.
> And you said you didn't want bookkeeping?
I can think of a very simple abstraction of this, in RunePower (Too <g>) terms: the acolyte gives up a fixed portion of her magic, representing that you don't know when you'll just happen to need to use "personal" Rune Magic. Then figure the bonus/penalty based on the lenten portion, aggregated over the year. i.e., if she gives up 40% of her RunePower XL spell, she only gets to use (at most) RunePower XXIV herself, while the community gets 16 x (yearly regain kludge factor) points of spells over the year.
> OK, I shouldn't have taken a potshot at RunePower.
No really, have another: <g>
> I think I still favor the
> tradeoffs inherent in the current system. As it is now, our Ernalda acolyte
> has to decide whether she wants to help the community more, or maximize her
> adventuring power. (I think she's about 50/50, BTW.)
This balancing act clearly arises in any case, it's simply a question of when, and how restrictively, it comes into play. Compile-time vs run-time configuration, as it were. (Assuming the distinction is simply down to which spells one takes, that is, which seems only partially true.) Your Ernalda acolyte has to decide which way to go when she takes a spell use, and is stuck with that choice, and indeed that particular spell year on year, whatever happens.
Alex.
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