Re: Animist Question

From: Wulf Corbett <wulfc_at_...>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 22:39:01 +0100


On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 10:17:10 +1300, Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_...> wrote:

>So where do ghosts and disease spirits get their physical bodies
>from?

Good question. Only two answers I can see: 1)Ghosts, Disease & Healing spirits don't work the way the current rules are written. If they do, then they should suffer Alien World modifiers when disembodied, making them either pathetically weak when disembodied, or massively powerful when embodied. We do need the embodiment modifier (embodied spirits don't get the -20) to make Animism possible - if all spirits have Alien World modifiers regardless of embodiment, Shamans would have to face monstrous spirits in the Otherworld to get usable ones in the middle world. Possibly all the Spirits from the 'Otherworld Spirits' section of Anaxials should be excluded from the Alien World modifiers. 2) The Ghosts, Disease & Healing spirits that float around free are suffering the Alien World modifier - in the spirit world they are damn hard! This is incompatible with the above though, bind a weak little Disease spirit in a fetish and it gets a +20 rating? Very nasty...

Wulf

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