Re: Possible house rules on concentrating magic

From: Tim Ellis <tim_at_...>
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 17:49:26 -0000

• In HeroQuest-rules_at_yahoogroups.com, "parental_unit_2" <parental_unit_2_at_y...> wrote:
  >
  >
  > I'm not that committed to the goal. What I'm really trying to do is
  > come up with a reason for characters to initiate to gods, become
  > practitioners, join orders, and the like, not just learn and
  > concentrate Common Magic. Under the base HQ rules, there are only
  weak
  > incentives to do so -- characters can obtain more diverse and
  powerful
  > magic abilities with less hassle through Common Magic.
  >
  

It strikes me you'd be better of dropping "Selfrock Teaching" from your Glorantha and only allowing people to concentrate on Common Magic if they join one of the Common Magic Religions (Lanbril, Donadar or the Mother of Seabirds whose name I forget, for instance). This has the added benefit that people who do join those religions don't also have to become Rockhuggers to concentrate.

Then if you do want to allow someone to concentrate purely on "talents" you can invent/adapt/discover a new religion/practice that has steeper requirements to keep it "balanced" with the other types of magic as you see fit for your game.