- In HeroQuest-rules_at_yahoogroups.com, "Light Castle"
<light_castle_at_s...> wrote:
>
> Again, why do you lose the ability to Use the Grimoire? If Wizardry
is about logical rote
> machinations of spells, how do you suddenly lose the ability?
>
I think of it a bit like this:
- The grimoire is a collection of computer programs, which will each
do something specific.
- The saint node is the central computer that can run those programs.
- When you attune the grimoire, you essentially get a dumb terminal,
which lets you run those programs off the central computre.
- When you leave the order, they cut off your access to that central
computre. You still have your collection of programs, but they don't
do anything without a way to run them
- Buying a specific spell is creating a hand held device with one
specific program hard coded in. As such, it is unaffected by whether
you have access to the central computer.
- If you find a grimoire and try to learn its spells, you are
basically trying to make sense out of the details of the code, so
that you can build your hand held device. This is *much* harder than
just following instructions and using the programs.
--Bryan