Sandy corrects me:
> The only advantage the white man had over the
> indian in killing buffalo was that there were more white men, and
> they had no ecological restriction on killing all the buffalo they
> wanted.
So what I should have said (substituting two words)...
> >While the natives *knew* the buffalo intimately, and depended on it
> >for their life, the white hunters with their rifles knew no better
> >than to kill the animals.
> The same applies to the shamans vs. sorcerers.
The shamans know the territory, the sorcerors don't, and if they sorceror encounters a spirit, his nominal reaction would be to flee or to fight.
I had an idea for a sorceror's hide-out, and have it booby-trapped with enchantments to trap and tap any wandering spirits. Don't know if it would work with the sorcery rules, though.
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