From: johnjmedway (jjm@zycor.lgc.com)
Date: Fri 09 Jul 1993 - 03:10:10 EEST
... and the impending God-Learnen schism?
Alas, I wish this had brewed up _last_ week. Then I could have gotten
Stafford's feelings about this at Origins.
>> >> Carl Fink
>> >>
>> >> 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!
Count me as _another_ vote _against_ this view.
( Maybe this should be considered for the next net-survey? )
Whether we adopt David Cheng's Rune Power idea ( which may have some
rationalization problems re: The Compromise ) or whether we adopt some
other mechanism, we need to
CHANGE DIVINE MAGIC
I have ALWAYS felt that Rune/Divine Magic was the most broken magic
system I'd seen ( o.k., except from T$R ). It does not _feel_ right.
It feels too much like reaching into my Bat Utility Belt (TM) and
pulling out my TrueSword gadget.
This just doesn't seem very _Divine_ to me.
>> Nick Brooke
>>
>> I'll second that, Wayne. It feels intuitively wrong. I would greatly
>> prefer to sort out the flawed RQ2 Thanatar / Vivamort mechanics so as to
>> allow a new perspective on Rune Magic, rather than adopt this niggling
>> method. If we make Spirit Magic more animistic (as discussed earlier when
>> Paul Reilly proposed a new model), why shouldn't we make Divine Magic more
>> theistic at the same time?
Spirit magic which involves spirits seems perfectly appropriate. In ancient
times people appealed to spirits for everything, and on Glorantha such appeals
would be answered. I'm all in favor of tuning Spirit Magic in this sense.
Regarding Sorcery, I've shut up, and decided to go with the flow. I liked
RQ3 Sorcery, but never used it for Gloranthan cultures. Almost everyone seems
to agree that it is broken and needs reworking to make sense in Glorantha,
and that it is a Big Deal.
I'm out-numbered, by people who really seem to care, and who seem to know
about what they're talking. So, OK, I'll go along.
I think it might be time for you to bite a similar bullet, Carl.
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