From: Curtis Shenton (curtiss@netcom.com)
Date: Mon 07 Jun 1993 - 23:53:39 EEST
>
> Hi there, everybody!
>
> Two things:
>
> (i) I agree with Paul: the Slavery Rune (if it exists) would be an inverted
> 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:
>
> DA BOSS
> __________|__________
> | | |
> | | |
> | | |
> Me You Him
>
> That convinced me!
Oh, that's good. It works just too damned well not to be ture. ;)
>
> I also agree with Curtis, of course: it's not a "proper" Rune, *and*,
> 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.
>
> Oh, we'll need a good set of rules for Slaves and POW some time. I'd
> 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...
Unless the slave has been affected by something along the lines of a
spell to turn him into a herd man I don't really like this idea. In
Glorantha it still seems to require a magical spell/ritual to affect
this sort of change.
>
> 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
>
>
I'll seconf that motion. I'd much rather have a difest than endless bits
of mail popping up. The regular RQ digest seems to work quite well as a
daily after all. Also can anyone tell me where I can get a copy of this
damn RQ IV playtest? ;)
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