From: Nick Brooke (100270.337@CompuServe.COM)
Date: Mon 07 Jun 1993 - 23:19:35 EEST
Hi there, everybody!
Two things:
(i) I agree with Paul: the Slavery Rune (if it exists) would be an inverted
DA BOSS
That convinced me!
I also agree with Curtis, of course: it's not a "proper" Rune, *and*,
Oh, we'll need a good set of rules for Slaves and POW some time. I'd
This suggestion is meant to be provocative, up there with the reduced POW
(ii) Seems to me that "general" postings re: RQ4 Draft 2.0 (like that from
Mastery Rune. Why? Well, Ompalam is also the god of bureaucracy, if I
remember right, and I guess we're all familiar with those wall-charts used
to trace responsibilities in the office:
__________|__________
| | |
| | |
| | |
Me You Him
whatever power or deity we use to create Slave Bracelets etc. in Genertela,
*nobody* would call it "Ompalam". (Shades of the "Pelorian Nyanka" from
TotRM 6...). The Lunar god of Slavery is *probably* Danfive Xaron, as I
mooted (to universal silence) back in March.
suggest that a born slave gets 1D6 POW, just as a domesticated animal has a
lower POW than its wild counterpart: cf. RQ3 Monsters Book for examples. A
captive-made-slave has his original POW, and is the kind of guy you'd clap
a Slave Collar on. Slave Collars ought to be fairly cheap and easy to
obtain... not so much a "magical" as a "natural" effect. Of course, a
slave who rebels *must* have had POW 3D6 all along...
roll for Dara Happan women! <g> But the socio-mythical arguments are all in
favour of both these "non-Politically Correct" suggestions! (Now, here's a
can of worms... Yum, Yum!).
Paul today) might fit in here on the list. Now, back in September when I
first saw RQ4, I took a week of evenings off to write a fairly detailed
commentary on that version. Since then, I've not heard of any new drafts
incorporating whatever was accepted from my collected wit and wisdom. Like
many others I've corresponded with and talked to, I'm worried that my Deep
Thoughts will be left at the back of the filing cabinet when Draft 3.0 (or
2.1?) is eventually produced. So, should I post this stuff to the list, or
do you Yanks get sent copies of all the interesting feedback anyway (and
it's just poor Brits like me & Steve & David that get left out in the
cold)?
Warning: this stuff is *long*!
Cheers,
Nick Brooke
PS: Loren, I know it's probably a bit late to ask this, but is it possible
for you to "Digestify" this mailing list? I'm finding it really awkward
finding my way around a mailshot of ten or twenty fragmentary letters every
day... and the "slow response time" doesn't seem to limit Henk's Daily at
all: probably makes it more thoughtful, if anything.
NB
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