richard wrote :
>I've been reading the Dragon Pass rules and it seems to me that the
>original thinking behind spirit combat was that it was pretty much
>the
>same as normal combat but on the spirit level.
>
>With RQ2/3 this seemed to get lost. In particular spirit combat:
>
>a) got boring (or maybe I should say "remained" boring)
>b) got deadly (even beyond resurrection)
>c) got personal (no shared attacks or defenses)
>
>I never ever liked spirit combat in RQ2. Has anyone ever reformed it,
>or
>does anyone have any thoughts on how it might be reformed? Even
>better,
>can anyone tell me what the "spirit" of spirit combat should be?
>
>Cheers
>
>Richard
I have reformed the spirit combat system in my house rules. They are
available on my web page (http://www.btinternet.com/~karamo/rq.htm)
but only in French (a succesful roll of R/W Sartarite could help).
It may be summarized as follows :
A new skill named Spirit Combat (Magic Skill, base=POW) has to be
learned.
It is used as attack and defense for spirit combat : each successful
attack inflict MP damages to the other according to POU (POU 1-5 = 1,
POU 6-10=1D, POU 11-15=1D6, POU 16-20=1D10, POU 21-30=2D6, each
+10POU=+1D6). Each succesful defense roll allows to absorb such
damages according to Spirit Protection attribute calculated as POU/5.
A special/critical of attacks or defense increase such
damages/absorbtion.
Each round, one attack and one defense is authorised. The result is
that spirit combat is shorter but more "deadly". And a couple of good
rolls may allow a weaker spirit to win against a stronger one (which
was statistically almost impossible under RQ3 standard system).
To cope with those changes, I also amended/created some specific
spirit combat spells (Spirit Screen, Spirit Claws, Spirit
resistance,...), sorten the duration of the Bad Man combat for
Shamanic Initiation, ...
Alain
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