From: Joerg Baumgartner (joe@sartar.toppoint.de)
Date: Tue 08 Jun 1993 - 16:10:24 EEST
In <EF3F8736D6@marketest.wharton.upenn.edu>, Nick writes:
> The Lunar god of Slavery is *probably* Danfive Xaron, as I
> mooted (to universal silence) back in March.
I happen to be editing Greg Stafford's article on the Red Emperor
(Tales 8, Free INT 5), in which it says:
"... the Lunar Empire believes that the entire empire is the personal
property of the living Emperor."
Since empires consist of the ruled inhabitants, this makes him the greatest
slave-owner of all.
> 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...
Like Trollkin? This leads to dangerous thinking as Master Races (take a look
at the result of this in Solingen, where some Trollkin-POW and -INT people
were led to belive they were the Master Race's greatest offspring). Do we
want to soften up die rolls for humans? If so, shouldn't Dara Happan
nobles get higher APP, Storm Buller's children lower INT (alcohol), Rathori
and Basmoli higher STR, ...? And dare we allow natural human magicians with
POW 3d6+1, as in RQ3 Land of Ninja? Or even higher, as Melniboneans and
Mabden in Stormbringer?
> This suggestion is meant to be provocative, up there with the reduced POW
> 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!).
Dangerous stuff, in mechanics as well as in reality.
-- -- Joerg Baumgartner joe@sartar.toppoint.de 0,,
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