Re: Common Magic and religion

From: Light Castle <light_castle_at_...>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 13:49:35 -0400

I seem to recall the opposite. Despite Kolat being part of the Storm Tribe, most people don't get to be practitioners and communal members. Yes, most people have common magic and don't concentrate anything, but actually having 2 of the otherworld systems is virtually unheard of, even when the religion incorporates it.

Common Magic is the overlap that gives you what you describe below. (Except that someone has already said that Orlanthi expect all common magic to be Talents, which would invalidate your description if true. Personally I go with something closer to yours.)

LC

On Fri, 2005-22-07 at 10:24 -0700, Andrew Solovay wrote:

> I know I'm joining this late, but... is this actually true? I thought I
> remembered Greg saying that in Glorantha, mixing systems is the *norm*,
> and concentrating on a single system is fairly rare. A typical farmer
> may well be an Orlanth Allfather initiate, but he'll also offer
> sacrifices to the brook spirit, and he learned a spell to help pigs
> through childbirth, and he's got a talent for seeing in the dark... it's
> only those minimax gamers who give up all that useful magic and focus on
> one system.
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