>...a HQ system [YAHQ's] -- my apologies for what follows to those who
>don't have his system, consider this a plug
No-one may apologise for not having the system. It is now on Nil's Web Site. Consider that a plug.
Mark talks about a Difficuly Rating for an appropiate Ritaul to bless a
particular year's crops. This is a good idea, equivalent to HeroQuest Spell
- -- for every single Support Point mustered you bless an area of land to grow
good crops next year, such as
1 SP = 5 km square. I don't think that the Community who casts the spell is
risking anything in doing so -- except a waste of their time and energy,
there is no more risk than an Orlanthi casting a Disrupt, if it fails the
target doesn't heal or such.
I think this would apply more to Dara Happan Communities, who use a
powerful communal magic to suceed in what they want to do. All in all, a new
revelation for me.
> It might also be
>possible to say that each community's magical rating is in effect a pool from
>which they can draw resources (similar to Nils' idea of one-use support
>points) and that they have to be careful in rationing their magical potential
>over the course of a year on different festivals and rituals -- hence, the
>weakness of the War Magic of the clan that spends their magic rating on farm
>festivals, and the weakness at farming for the War Clan.
Ooo, excellent! A communities Support Points (i.e. magical potential) regenerates every Sacred Time after the apporpiate rites are made. And this would also start to pull together in other ares, frex -- for every Support Point spent the community either gains the effect of a Morale spell for a Season (war clan) or increases the WDLF (or whatever it is from D:LoD-- I haven't got it on me at the moment) by 50 for every clan. The description of an entire community by certain stats appropiate to it is, to my knowledge, the basis for Greg Maple's EPIC system -- which unfortunately I've never seen.
> A community could
>even expend some of its magical rating to make the difficulty rating of their
>adversaries' ritual-events higher, if they know the proper oppositional
>rites.
IMO the community could do something similiar whereby they know the rites
to intercede in another communities HQ's and beat cripple them on the
HeroPlane. Frex, the Yelmalions of Sun COunty piss off a powerful group of
Zorak Zorani in the Big Rubble. When the Yelmalions use their magics to
perform the Hill Of Gold Quest the trolls do likewise and the Questing Rune
Lords both appear on the HeroPlane and meet each other. Because each Quester
is representative of their community then if the Quester is beaten, the
Community is likewise crippled. Of course, the Yelmalions win because they
have far more support from their nation than the piddling Zorak Zorani Gang
in Pavis.
Of course, there's nothing stopping a cult to use HeroQuest spells to
attack another community upon the physical world i.e. the Valind cult
summons up a Snowstorm to destroy it's foes crops -- but this takes place on
the Physical Realm, not the HeroPlane/
>It might eventually be possible to describe every calendrical ritual along
>the lines of Nick's ZZ HQ, as a series of specific 'tests' corresponding to
>the underlying myths, with the communities' ratings (or those of their
>priests or avatars, to make it even more HQey) being challenged at each step,
>perhaps even approaching the level of detail of the Garhound festival.
No, this would suggest that an entire community appears on the HeroPlane to
face their adversaries. Frex, when the Sacred Time ritual is enacted wherein
Orlanth deafeats the Evil God of the Cold (this is off the to of my head
BTW) one Quester is sent to meet it upon the HeroPlane while the rest of the
Community help. That is what HeroQuesting is, in part, a single Hero with
the Support of her/his community facing the problems that beset her/his
community.
The use of HeroQuests to aid in Sacred Time rites etc... would be Orlanthi
in nature IMO, aswell as the Praxians practising it. For example, think of
the Belovaking HeroQuest which is repeated each year to ensure the clan has
it's special powers. I think it's on David Dunham's Web Site (cheers to Dave
for pointing me there!)
Just some thoughts,
Nick E.
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