>Wow, another spot where the HQ rules are really cool. See, this is
>simply modelled as <mass magic skill> (whatever cool name you
>actually call it). Just like a mass combat skill is appropriate for
>soldiers, and troops with it will defeat superior swordsmen without
>it. And nobody but the lunars (and a few Loskalmi probably) have any
>sort of mass magic skill.....so far.
>
I'd agree that the Loskalmi are the closest in the West to using
Lunar-style mass magic (although I think the Lunars are generally better
at it, at least at the beginning of the Hero Wars). Cultures throughout
the West use magic to support their military, but its typically a
haphazard thing, much like Ohorlanthi storm voices helping out the
Heortling warriors, or else Be Obeyed type leadership spells. What the
Loskalmi also have IMO - besides a generally more efficient and better
organised army - is a professional order of wizards dedicated to
artillery support. Not quite a Lunar College of Magic (certainly
smaller, for one thing), but very handy to have on your side nonetheless.
There won't be room for them in Heirs of Malkion, since they're really too specialist for that, but hopefully they'll appear in some future Loskalmi book.
-- Trotsky Gamer and Skeptic ------------------------------------------------------ Trotsky's RPG website: http://www.ttrotsky.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
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