From: Graeme Lindsell (gal502@huxley.anu.edu.au)
Date: Wed 09 Jun 1993 - 04:42:33 EEST
Having recently received the RQIV draft rules via a kind heart and
a) The skills as a manipulation limit instead of free int: obviously
b) I don't like the new duration/range rules: access to the better
c) Familiars are kept as a requirement for adepthood. I dislike the
As for the rules, I just don't like the way sorcerers have to give up
c) I still don't see any mechanisms to make good cultural play
A suggestion to replace Create familiar and to help with priestly
How do you get to be the wizard of your local church, then?
What's that? Old priest Wexen is so pious that he's over 150 and
I think this would get those PC wizards acting pious (and plotting to
Opinions?
the magic of e-mail, I have a few comments:
the correct approach.
tables only if you spend a point of POW or spend as long to cast a spell
as it lasts. I don't like the first as I have always seen POW creating
some permanent effect (One-Use Divine Magic an exception), and the
second seems pointless.
concept and execution of the RQIII familiar rules intensely. The
reason for the first is Gloranthan: I can't see any of the Malkionists
accepting that one needs a bound animal/spirit to show yourself to
be a good priest. RQ already provides enough familiars with allied
spirits and shaman's fetches. I believe that a Malkionist would
prefer to rely on himself, his faith and his flock (see below) rather
than an animal or some pagan spirit bound into a ring.
characteristics permanently to form a familiar. The new way of just using
POW to make the stats is better though.
equivalent to good game play (like Pendragon's Glory system). There
isn't any reason for a sorcerer to _want_ to be a pious priest.
game play: allow a priest to have access to some of the magic points
sacrificed to the Invisible God in the priest's church. This would
take the form of a spirit that occupies the church, with a "POW"
of (say) 1 per regular (weekly) worshipper. The sorcerer/wizard that
conducts regular ceremonies can use this POW to cast and maintain
spells. This would probably be the main exterior source of magic
points to a Rokari or Hrestoli wizard. The Brithini need to Tap:
independant sorcerers would use bound spirits or maybe familiars.
Easy, wait till the old one dies/retires, the Lord selects you
as his replacement, and reconsecrate the church with "Make
Church of the Invisible God", a n enchantment requireing 2 POW.
still runs 5 leagues every morning before his "fire and brimstone"
sermon? Well, you had better go out and convert some heathen, and
create a new church of you own...
get the new curateship that Lord Owen has promised to create) in a
jiffy!
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