Thoughts on Magic (Cross

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From: Carl Fink (carlf@panix.com)
Date: Thu 08 Jul 1993 - 06:06:38 EEST

To: rq-playtest@marketest.wharton.upenn.edu
Subject: Divine Magic

  David Cheng writes:

d>RUNE MAGIC
d>A worshipper invokes rune magic. For that instant, he _becomes_
d>the god. That is what allows him to do it in the first place.
d>Without
d>the initiate-link to his god, he can't hope to pull this off.
d>
  Okay, David, now how do you explain vampires and Thanatari? Or the
fact that former initiates don't lose their divine magic? They just
lose the ability to *re-use* Rune spells.

  As I've said dozens of times - when a person learns a Rune Spell,
that's exactly what happens. In exchange for the Power sacrifice, the
god *teaches the initiate a spell*. The spell is a spell, not divine
intervention, not divine incarnation - it's a MAGIC SPELL!

  AAAAARGH!

  (Do you get the idea that I'm frustrated?) 

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