Re: HW and Rune Level

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_yeats.ucc.ie>
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 23:56:13 +0100 (BST)

Nick Brooke meditates upon the Eternal Riddle that is Eric's answer to the HW rune level question:
> Speaking *without* benefit of Inside Knowledge, and purely given that in
> RuneQuest a Rune Lord usually had to be a master of five cult skills,
> perhaps Mastering five HW abilities from your cult template would be
> indicative of Rune-Level-equivalent status?

Or simply 1W in the applicable Keyword, I'd have thought, which each seem to contain a handful of abilities. (Or the proverbial Reasonable Facsimile, as per Keywords being more Indicative than Prescriptive.)

> HW Mastery *is* far more than a starting character possesses in any ability.

Only four increments, right? (Assuming the 'high default' that was under discussion.) Mind you, I'm pretty vague on how hard an increment might be to come by... (Obviously all the slower, the more abilities that you need to do it for...)

On the third hand, if HW says little or nothing about 'Rune Levels', other than saying that a Storm Voice is a priesty, blustery, maybe- -a-level-of-mastery-or-so typa geezer, I'll be perfectly content. Even certain RQ2 (gasp) era sources made it clear that such ranks were at least in part socially determined. ("Wanted, Rune Lord of Pavis. Apply within. No experience necessary.")

Slan libh,
Alex.

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