>We've had various view-points on this over the last few months. Is there
>an "official" ruling on the percentage level of concentration for normal
>people in any of the various Homelands?
I'm no Glorantha expert, but here are the salient points to me.
The Heortlings seem to be amongst the most devout peoples in that there's a statement that it's standard in their culture to become an initiate. I haven't heard of any culture where everyone becomes devotees, and would think it very odd given what being a devotee means. I don't think such a culture could survive long, because too many people would be spending too much time just worshipping (that is I feel that a culture somewhat survives on the people who spend their unused "committment time" on the day-to-day).
So let's take the Heortlings as a "worst case scenario." The question becomes how many of them concentrate? Well, none of them have to do so - it's not required to be an initiate. Further, many of them are likely to have magic like Flesh Man talents, and other common magic that happens not to be feats. So, I'm guessing that only the sort of rare individual who's likely to someday become a devotee, perhaps, is likely to concentrate. The rest blythly spend the double HP (actually, they're not heroes so they don't get HP, but that's a whole nother argument) to increase their magic abilities if they increase them at all. That is, yes, they progress slowly, I think.
IOW, that follows the "rare" estimate for concentration. And this is the "worst case scenario" culture. In other cultures were even fewer initiate percentagewise, I think concentration is probably even rarer.
Basically, it's the kind of thing that only a focused player hero sort of person does. Somebody willing to be outside the norm. Somebody willing to forgo their Flesh Man talents in order to be good at their theistic magic. Not neccessarily obsessed, but that'd help. Let's give them the benefit of the doubt, and call 'em "focused" people. Very, very focused people.
Mike
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