FWIW according to P&P Runequest 2 was 1980, which gives it a ~50% chance of being older than me.
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> Maybe the answer is to have two levels of runic assocation:
> A system of primary runes, the runes which denote the magic that a god can
> give to its followers (to which the system of ranking the gods using 'three
> runes', 'two runes' and 'one rune' applies); but
> A separate means of using another rune or two to describe (and limit?) the
> kinds of feats that a god's association with his/her primary rune(s) allows
> its worshippers to perform?
I like the idea of a 'runic phrase' explaining the god's powers in a more subtle way - I just think that in many cases its more important to come at this "bottom-up" (from the cultures viewing, interpreting, and making use of the otherworldly entity) rather than "top-down" (authoritatively and exhaustively describing the entities magical capacities).
Rune-phrases (why do I keep thinking of n-triples?) only present one big problem to me: how do you depict them? Brackets? Hyphens? Main runes inset with descriptive runes?
> Or maybe this is just another of my eccentric ideas ...
Add innovative to that too, I think. Delete eccentric if you feel it necessary. ;)
--
John Machin
"Nothing is more beautiful than to know the All."
- Athanasius Kircher, 'The Great Art of Knowledge'.
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