At 09:12 12/10/00 +0000, you wrote:
>
> > Look at Anaxial's Roster p188
> >
> > Otherworld entities suffer the alien world modifier when
> > they are in the Inner Plane or any Outer World except their
> > own (see Narrator's Book p32). *This reduction is already
> > reflected in the statistics provided here*. If a hero
> > encounters an entity on its native plane (e.g. a nymph in
> > the Spirit World, a certamus in the Sky Realm or a Monocerous
> > in the Sorcery Plane), increase all its abilities by +20.
>
>Fine, so all the Shamans who go looking for disease or healing
>spirits better be damned good at their job, as they'll have to defeat
>a Might 30 spirit to get the use of a Might 10 one. There will be
>very very few integrated disease/healing spirits (or Passion Spirits,
>if I remember rightly.
No. They are summoning the spirit into this world.
> > I don't have much time for theories that require significant _ad
> > hoc_ exceptions for common classes of spirits without compelling
> > reasons.
>I thought the whole point of HW was improvising things?
The point is that it is an unnecessary one so far for which you
have yet to advance any convincing rationale as to why ghosts and
disease spirits are so different compared to other spirits.
--Peter Metcalfe