> From: "parental_unit_2" <parental_unit_2_at_...>
wonders
> I'm wondering whether those
> who designed the rules and the homelands had thought the issue
> through, or just decided it wasn't worth considering.
Yes.
> From: Ashley Munday <aescleal_at_...>
also wonders
> Just curious, where in the rules does it say that
> Heortlings only and exclusively use Flesh Man common
> magic?
Actualy, the Heortlings claim that all Common Magic comes from Flesh Man. We know it doesn't, but they don't, and they claim that it all does.
A LOT of people make wild claims about Common Magic, but their claims are not objecively true. But they have no objectivity themselves.
> From: "parental_unit_2" <parental_unit_2_at_...>
comments further
> Nowhere, of course. Presumably Heortling characters can learn common
> magic from common religions that list Heortland in the Homelands
> section of the keyword.
According to the rules, they can learn any CM. But according to the story, would they learn it form a Lunar? Of course not. They don't know what Common Magic is. That is a rule construct, not a thing the Heortlings know about.
> As I mentioned before on this list, this is one of the things that
> seem odd about the concentration rules and the way they interact with
> the homelands in the HQ rulebook. In some cases, concentration on the
> main magic system of a homeland means giving up the native common
> magic because it's from the wrong otherworld. But non-native common
> magic, no matter how weird or foreign, is OK based on the rules if
> it's from the right otherworld.
Again, yes, it is OK *based on the rules.* But play the story, not the rules. No one in Glorantha knows the rules, just the stories. People are naturaly conservative and jus wouldn't learning something from a foreigner. They don't even know that they CAN.
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