Re: Common Religions, common magic, and otherworlds

• In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, Greg <Greg@...> wrote:
  >
  Thank you again! I'll try to make this my last set of questions on this front, but you keep revealing interesting new titbits, which makes it hard to stop.
  >
  >
  > Some heroes, some landscape entities. Think of people who became
  part of
  > the landscape, etc.
  > Also, some entities from Otherworlds may have gotten cut off from their
  > otherworld.
  > Also, entities that came to power when there were no Otherworlds: i.e.,
  > the Great Darkness.
  > BUT, I think, relatively rare compared to entities that live in the
  > Everything World, but have otherworld origins.
  >
  > BTW, a lot of the Landscape entities, especially the smaller ones, may
  > be Everything World denizens.
  >
  

Oh, interesting! So there could a tree/hill/vale etc. which has an everyworld 'magical' nature? That leads to some interesting possibilities :-)

Also would some 'hell' powers also grant common magic abilities? (with all the usual down sides to making such deals)

>
> Yes. And we could have skipped the whole concentration thing with just
> the Common Religion approach. Including it is what makes all the
players
> want to become "weird," in Glorantha terms, by concentrating. I
think in
> actuality is it relatively rare.
>
I now know one area in which my Wenelia game will be varying from the rules!

Thanks again for your time and insight.

Regards;

-Bryan             Received on Tue 26 Jun 2007 - 12:50:30 EEST