http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/ The World of Glorantha Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:29:10 GMT Jeff Richard http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/message/8784 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/message/8784 ... Either list is just fine for a discussion of Gloranthan magic rules. Jeff Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:17:04 GMT L C http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/message/8783 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/message/8783 donald@... wrote: At the ... *nod* ... Yeah, that's my view as well, that it is a case of imperiling the soul to the Rokari. Yes, people can do Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:20:03 GMT donald@... http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/message/8782 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/message/8782 ... It depends on what the church doctrine is and why that doctrine was adopted. My view of Rokari doctrine is that a commoner can certainly perform magic but Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:24:24 GMT L C http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/message/8781 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/message/8781 So, I am torn. Would a discussion of magic in light of HQ2 make more sense here or on the HQ2 list? It sort of straddles the line as to how the mechanics Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:10:25 GMT L C http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/message/8780 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/message/8780 ... bloodline, so that one's not generally a problem. Of course, they can be rubbish at other aspects of being a wizard (the whole celibacy >thing, for Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:01:02 GMT L C http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/message/8779 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/message/8779 ... moment, until it's clear where it stands, so apologies if my answers are brief. Understandable, if frustrating. ^_^ ... Rokari don't believe in any of this Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:48:33 GMT L C http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/message/8778 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/message/8778 ... or Wizard caste memebr who starved to death because his cook had been killed and cooking was something done by another caste, >whihc is a lovely idea. Oh Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:57:21 GMT ttrotsky2 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/message/8777 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/message/8777 ... Oh, yes, that sounds like the Brithini! [About the Rokari:] ... I completely agree. Well, apart from the Brithini, who really are strange like that. ... Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:47:13 GMT ttrotsky2 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/message/8776 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/message/8776 ... I'm trying not to give too much away about the contents of LotW at the moment, until it's clear where it stands, so apologies if my answers are brief. ... Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:19:52 GMT Simon Phipp http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/message/8775 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/message/8775 ... They aren't the only ones. Someone had an example of a Brithini Ruler or Wizard caste memebr who starved to death because his cook had been killed and Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:14:39 GMT L C http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/message/8774 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/message/8774 Hmm.. given Greg's appeal to try throwing down some actual credo and see what spins out of it, I am tempted to raid Nick Brooke's page of sects: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:05:12 GMT L C http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/message/8773 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/message/8773 ... that. Quite a lot more complicated. Lovely. I adore complicated. Could you give an example? Certainly the Rokari as presented have been "born in, die Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:32:44 GMT L C http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/message/8772 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/message/8772 Nor, of course, do the Dwarves. (Well, Flintnail has that covered already, of course. ^_^) Jeff Richard wrote: And the Aeolians don't use the Abiding book Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:26:49 GMT ttrotsky2 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/message/8771 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/message/8771 ... In Lords of the West, I took the view that it's more complicated than that. Quite a lot more complicated... ... I could see it in some other places, too Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:06:13 GMT Jeff Richard http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/message/8770 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/message/8770 ... Nor do the first sorcerous cults that will be presented in Gloranthan HeroQuest - Pavis and Flintnail. Jeff