Keith
>IMHO it was a mistake to have Saints granting blessings for exactly this
>reason.
My impression of Saints blessings is that they don't necessarily involve the saint manifesting, or interacting with them directly. Call it a minor heroquest power - you aren't necessarily repeating the saints quest directly, but you are gain the power by symbolically repeating it in some way. In a way its a bit like being a follower of the saint, retrospectively.
>I would (if
>I ever ran a campaign in the West) have Saints blessing as sorcerous spells
>manipulated by the wizards.
I don't think Saints blessings are sorcery spells in either RQ or HW - they are a foreign power adapted to Malkioni use after the dawn, generally a variant of divine magic/feats. Malkionism did not have Saints at the dawn, its an imitation of theist hero magic - not that you would ever get them to admit it of course (and of course its modified in such a way as to be specially non-blasphemous). But note that the Brithini and Vadeli do not have Saints.
Cheers David ------------------------------
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