Re: Rituals; archery

From: David Dunham <dunham_at_pensee.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 22:08:19 -0800


Boris wondered

> The current rules for ritual magic leave a lot to be desired, IMO.
> Primarily, the ability to duplicate what is described in the literature.
> For instance, in the recent adventure write up from the Seattle
> Farmers Commune (SFC for short), their characters' clan did the
> "Summons of Evil" ritual from KoS to bring some nasty broos to
> them. I don't know how they did this in their game, but I would
> have to resort to handwaving in mine. The rules as written imply
> that each ceremony would require a specific spell be known to do it.

I suspect Jeff Richard did this with a lot of handwaving, and possibly a roll on Ritual (the PenDragon Pass equivalent of RQ's Ceremony+Enchant+Summon) and Religion/Orlanth, probably to see if there were a Critical or Fumble. That's what I'd do.

When Harmast first performed the Lightbringer's Quest he made it all up, after all (not necessarily the Quest itself, but how to do it).

David Dunham
Member, Seattle Farmers Collective

Joerg complained

> To my profound distress (as an archer) there are no traditions of the
> longbow in Genertelan human warfare. Specialists may have one, but you won't
> get full units armed with them.

Possibly because they're part of a higher technology level than Chaosium would like, or they'd like to reserve them for dragonewts. As an archer, you'll just have to take solace in gods like Golden Bow, Urengerum/Sagittus, Kuschile, etc.

A general comment to posters: how about adding more blank lines? Given the constraints of this plain-text e-mail, they can greatly improve readability. Especially when separating quoted material from new, or between paragraphs (yes I know you Europeans don't do this, but us Americans either indent or put blank space in).

And another general comment: there have been some nice non-discussion posts lately. I haven't been filling up the Digests with "well done!"s, but if you've written such a post, I probably owe you one.

David Dunham <mailto:dunham_at_pensee.com> Glorantha/RQ page: <http://www.pensee.com/dunham/glorantha.html> Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein


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