Jonas Schiött:
> Still, there are a handful of feats with really obscure names. Everyone
> on the list has jumped at explaining Sunset Leap. ;-) The consensus seems
> to be that it's teleportation.
I thought that the concensus was that it was actual leaping... I agree that 'cool ambiguity' is all well and good, but there's surely some actual Gloranthan information to be communicated here: do Orlanth A. devotees regularly teleport, or has that been deemed to be a 'specialist' sub-cult, as Vanganth has been used to hive off flying?
For one thing, we already have broad affinity as a tool for getting breadth of nifty things to do with magic. Making the feats _too_ loose seems largely redundant, given that.
> But the ones I still have no idea at all
> about are Snarl Darkness and Leaping Shield.
Me neither. The latter sounds like something Morden would do -- I just don't know actually what...
There are also a number of
> feats that seem puny or redundant. Look under Vanganth for examples -
> lots of specialized feats that I would have thought were already included
> under Aerial Maneuvering.
V. smacks a little bit of 'have to make this look like a reasonably broad affinity, somehow'. Not clear much is really accomplished, though I suppose it establishes there are things the devotees can do readily, which initiates are at -3 for.
> >you can use the lightning bolts at any time (any time you can
> >perform magic, of course). No need to carry around a bow and arrows.
> >Lightning ignores armor. Lightning is self-targeting, which means that
> >you can't defend with dodging-type skills, you need some kind of physical
> >toughness or an appropriate magical ability. The range of a lightning
> >bolt is LOS. So it's a different kind of weapon, with its ups and downs.
This is true, but it seems rather small beer. It also bothers me that the differences stated have nothing at all to do with the nature of devotional and/or sacrificial magic, the god that's providing the zaps, the piety of the individual doing the zapping, etc, etc.
Cheers,
Alex.
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