From: Guy_Robinson.sbd-e@rx.xerox.com
Date: Thu 06 Jan 1994 - 10:58:31 EET
Dave,
Rest assured that I read the entirity of your mail note and I found it
constructive and interesting. Thank you for reminding me of the hero
quest concept and providing me with an excellent argument for the
extreme rarity, or prehaps absence, of sorcerers in Glorantha.
I must conceeed that RQ3 brought some usefull concepts with it.
In RQ2 shaman dealt with the otherwise largely disinterested spirits
Spirits appeared else where in the rules and in Golranthan society and
In RQ3 they fleshed out the spirits, made Battle Magic the domain of
To restore this I would recommend that both Priests and Shamans
Your views about Runes are noted. In my reading of RQ2, given
In RuneQuest 2 the Priest can scarifice for Rune Magic because he
that populated the spirit plane. They were underused and there were
obvious parts missing like disease spirits, for example.
they were described in a rather haphazard manner.
Shamans but in doing so Battle Magic was shifted from it's role as
the low magic of a fantasy society.
should be able to teach Battle Magic and that further more the
similarities in their social and magicial roles, to cults and
tribes respectively, should be explained.
my preliction for bleak backgrounds, the Runes appeared to be
more prominent that the Gods themselves who largely seemed
bound to conform to them and be described by them.
has mastered the Spirit Rune and has been accepted by his cult
and diety as a Priest. The Rune Lord has also mastered a certain
Rune when he becomes a Rune Lord (I've forgotten which).
At least your explaination the Runes as a cultural variant are
I admit that codifying exactly what occurs after death might be
This could allow spell that only work on the freshly dead, when
RQ3 was a turkey. It was the first role playing game to hit the
What I am trying to do is build a general consensus and discusion
usefull for people who seek ways to design variations in local
magic. After all the events of god time could, after all, be
viewed from differing perspectives.
distastfull and inappropriate for a number of reasons. However
just as the death of a character's physicial body is dealt with
so should the short term fate of the character's spirit.
the spirit has yet become too dissassociated with it's body, to
be defined.
UK at the kind of "premium" price it was sold at. Subsequently
all I possess of it is a second hand copy of the Magic Book.
about RQ magic. This has so far proved usefull for me and I hope
it aids RQIV to save from the fate of RQ's last release.
-- Guy Robinson --
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