I was attempting to give a constructive and useful rationalisation of how you might interpret a Trickster who has, say, Deadeye 12 on his character sheet. This probably wouldn't overcome the magical defences of a starting player hero, let alone a powerful Wind Lord or some such.
Yes, it is less dramatic than suddenly having the ability to strike *anyone* dead with a glance. If that's the way you want to do it, do it that way. I'm not arguing. But bear in mind that - if the ability is gained via a heroquest - the questor stakes one of their other abilities, as with any other heroquest. The Deadeye ability they get is at the same rating as the lower of the ability ratings staked in the quest (assuming they win), as per Narrators Book p41. I would - and I don't have a heroquest written up for this or anything - guess that the HQ is *very* dangerous and if you fail, you almost certainly never come back. Or come back dead. So there is every possibility that the questor would come back with a high rating in Deadeye. In which case, they have suddenly got the ability to strike *anyone* dead at a nice high ability rating.
Bruce
On Thursday, June 14, 2001 10:19 PM, Phil Hibbs
[SMTP:phil_at_...] wrote:
> >The trickster starts of killing mice and rabbits and moves on up to
> >people without magic and, finally, killing Wind Lords and the like.
>
> So the description is just plain wrong then, rather than "they get the
> Deadeye, which kills people they look at", it should say "they get the
> deadeye, which kills small animals they look at". And instead of "a trick
> that ... allows them to see without killing people by keeping one eye shut",
> it should say "... allows them to see without killing small animals by
> keeping one eye shut".
>
> It's less dramatic that way, I think.
>
> I don't think the Hero Wars rules should be used to change Glorantha, they
> should be used to reflect Glorantha.
>
> If you need to quantify it in rules terms, then okay. The beginning of the
> process gives the basic power at 16, but the rest of the "quest" in the
> Deadeye place boosts it up through a series of encounters. Maybe the subject
> gambles their death against the Trickster - if they win, they get their
> death. If they lose, they play another hand, but the longer they stay, the
> higher their Deadeye power gets. It seems to be a no-win situation - they're
> stuck in the quest with an ever increasing Deadeye power rating until they
> work out how to draw a game and return to the real world.
>
> The quest is dangerous because the game's easy to win, and most questors'
> gut reaction is to try to win.
>
> Phil.
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