Re: Mundane Supermen versus Supernatual Supermen

From: Mikael Raaterova <ginijji_at_...>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:50:01 +0200

>The problem is in the interpretation of this ability as
>something powered by magic or whether it is just the
>result of some heavy training and exercise. If it is just
>a mundane ability, then is it sense in Glorantha that a person
>using no magical ability can outrun a horse across an open plain?

Part of this problem i think stems from the Greg-determined Mastery Inflation. Since an ability isn't 'heroic' until you get your third mastery, two masteries isn't very exceptional.

If, OTOH, your first mastery represents a step into the extraordinary (i may be a bit odd, but i interpret a 1-point increment in HW as equal to 5 percentiles in RQ; hence 1w equals 105%) then i have no problem with humans outrunning horses, since at those levels the mundane ability has ceased to be 'mundane' in any meaningful sense of the term.

YGMV (and mine too).

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Mikael Raaterova        [.sig omitted on legal advice]