Re: Fighting with ghosts

From: David Dunham <david_at_...>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:28:32 -0800


Gavain

>Ho do you deal with fights with ghosts?
>
>I can see how they can attack you and you defend against possession
>using magic
>even if it is improvised of your religious keyword. I suppose what I really
>mean to ask is how do you attack back? Especially if you don't have any
>specialist magic for dealing with ghosts (eg Lay Ghost from Humakt).
>The rules
>say that they can only be harmed by magic, presumably that can be only
>offensive magic.

I think you can use something like your Initiate of <God> in a contest against an attacking ghost. You'd use it in a simple contest, so you should be able to use it for both sides of an extended contest, if that's what your question is about.

Now I wouldn't let you *initiate* a fight with a ghost without an ability like Lay Ghost. And perhaps even if you defeat the attacking ghost, it could start a new fight with someone else (to try to capture some of the feel of fighting disembodied entities that RuneQuest had).

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David Dunham
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