wrote:
> Brian <brian_at_k...> wrote:
> >
> > On page 118 at the upper right under Common Magic Feats it says
that
> > any theist who concentrates his magic can use common magic feats
as
> > abilities. This doesn't seem to make sense to me as if you ARE
> > concentrating your magic, don't you have to give up your common
> > magic feats (ie, give up anything not specifically from your god)
> > [...]
>
> As I understand it, if you concentrate your magic, you aren't
limiting
> yourself to just that one *god*--you're limiting yourself to just
that one
> *world*. If you concentrate on Theistic magic, you can use feats
and
> affinities from any god, including common magic feats--but you
can't use
> spirits, spells, etc. from any school. Mind you, your *god* may
object if
> you mix feats from different gods (if, say, a Chalana Arroy
initiate starts
> learning "Sword" or "Headhunter" feats), but the rules won't.
>
> There are exceptions--e.g. a Lunar can "concentrate" in the Lunar
pantheon,
> and thus use any Lunar spells/feats/spirits, but no non-Lunar
magic from any
> world. (I suspect Trolls do something similar, concentrating in
just
> Underworld or just Circle-of-Eight, but this hasn't been worked
out.) But by
> and large, concentrating your magic doesn't limit you to a
specific god or
> even a specific pantheon.
>
> As I understand it, anyway...
>
> --AMS
That makes sense. So a Heortling can keep his 'Flesh Man' magic and
still concentrate on Theism? I guess then I find it odd that any
sample characters that I have seen that have concentrated their
magic do not keep any common magic (the Heortling healer, grazer
cavalry soldier, esrolian sailor on Glorantha.com are good
examples). Is it just a coincedence?