From: paul@phyast.pitt.edu
Date: Thu 10 Jun 1993 - 03:17:28 EEST
Just a short note in response to Nick's note:
There are some glitches in what I posted: this fall into typos, thinkos,
and possible real problems. I apologize for any typos or thinkos and
will try to clean it up this weekend and repost since there have been
some favorable reactions.
Credit where credit is due: this is (C) Paul Reilly and Mike Holliday.
Just because he's not on the net doesn't mean that he doesn't exist!
I'll be posting some stuff for him soon about Spirit Cult Regiments as
well. (Or is it Regimental Spirit Cults?)
Also, note that I sent substantially the same system to Oliver Jovanovic
a week or two ago. He came back with some insightful comments and Gloranthan
information (such as who uses staffs, Kralorelan mandalas, etc.)
which has led to substantial improvements over what I sent him.
The heart of the system, that I hope makes it into RQ4, is the parallelism
between shamans and sorcerors, and the idea of sorcerors having a certain
amount of magic that can be kept in reserve or out running in spells, instead
of counting Duration on spells. Beyond this the mechanics are up for debate.
I like Nick's ideas on tying the Presence to maintenance of vows and
morals - I saw this the other way around, that the sorceror's libido had
been 'killed' so that they no longer could break their restrictions. But
it's possible that the Wizard could become corrupted, or, as the Lunars
would say, begin to be Healed. All this leads back to the question of
how one should build up one's personal _orenda_ in various cultures - the
POW gain as it exists now seems wrong to me.
Oh, and if anyone else manages to "weasel out any flaws
buried in it" please email me so I can get to work on them!
- Paul
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