I understand that Initiates get to work with the affinities, Devotees have chosen to follow their god more closely and begin to be able to perform feats (first one is free, 1 per hero point after that, if I recall off-hand).
Affinities strike me as logical. Taking Odayla as an example, with the Hunt affinity, a player who is chasing after another person could say "Chasing prey is part of a hunters job, 'Odayla, aid me in my time of need, grant me a burst of speed to catch the bastard'" and use his Hunt affinity to augment his Running skill as per the rules. It's not exactly hunting, but the situation is related, so his Hunting Affinity can be applied (similar to the rock lifting example in the rules book).
Are all affinities simply used to augment other abilities ? Surely there's more scope than that for affinities. Can the (and I'm stretching and guessing because I don't have my rules at work) Mahome worshipper say "I'm using my fire affinity to light the camp fire" <zot> "Campfire's burning, campfire's burning..."
What about feats ? How would you use, say, Humakt's Truesword Feat ? Is that just used as an augmentation to your Swordfighting skill ? If so, then that's pretty naff. The Truesword Runespell gives you double chance to hit which is a very specific effect, but we're not playing RQ here...
I mean, Truesword Stoke, to me, sounds like it would grant the devotee a single sword stroke that is guaranteed to hit, Humakt guides his sword for the one killing blow, or something like that. Not exactly sure how you'd mirror that in game terms.
Some feats are obvious, some are quite cryptic. The rules seem quite vague on the topic and I really don't know how I'd use feats in a game. They sound really, really cool and I love the concept, but...
Is it honestly just a case of looking at the feat / affinity, thinking of a plausible use for it and going for it ? If so, has anyone done a list of cool uses for affinities or feats ?
I hope I'm making sense here and not just asking a stupid question...
Harry.
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