'tis as bitter to give as receive ? (Re: concentration counter to membership?)

From: bethexton_at_...
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 19:34:19 -0000

• In HeroQuest-rules_at_yahoogroups.com, Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_q...> wrote:
  > At 03:21 PM 6/4/04 +0000, you wrote:
  >
  > >Can you be a lay member/communal worshipper/spiritist, if you are
  > >counter-concentrated?
  >
  > What do you mean by "counter-concentrated"?
  concentrated in any type of magic other than the one being used in worship.
  >
  > Concentrating on one source means giving up on others. If you
  > want to remain friends with a shaman, you can but it's of no use
  > to him or you magically. If you participate in a different worship
  > rite, you lose your concentration.
  >
  

Hmmmm, Peter says this, but in his reply, Roderick says that using or getting any of the banned magics is the problem. One expert says it is what you give, the other says it is what you receive? Anyone want to wade in with a tie breaking vote?

(FWIW, I think both positions are reasonable, and most religions allow mixed worshippers, so that might be the exception that eats the rule, i.e. you can concentrate on innate magic and still be a communal worshipper of the storm tribe, because at that level the religion is a mixed one.)

--Bryan