Re: Rurik the Heroquester

From: Charles Corrigan <glorantha_at_...>
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 12:41:02 -0000

• In hw-rules_at_egroups.com, Benedict Adamson wrote:
  > > When the subject of community support came up before, Roderick
  > > sugested a potential rule change such that you could separately
  > > request support for a ritual from each community that you are a
  > > member of.
  > ...
  >
  > IIRC, the non linearity in the Community Support table means that
  the
  > support of two small communities is better than the support of one
  > community formed by those two communities combining.
  >
  > This makes no Gloranthan sense to me (YGMV), and, since this is the
  > rules list, the potential for abuse is awful: spend 2 HP, buy an
  > extra community relationship, repeat.
  

The answer to this is that in a rules sense you are right but in an in game/story sense there are limits on the number of community. If you split your relationship with the clan into too many relationships with component parts of the clan then you will convince those close to you but the rest of the clan will say "who cares about supporting him, he's really in with the x bloodline and ignores us unless he wants something - all take and no give".

Wulf Corbett wrote
> Can't remember exactly, but wasn't the suggestion that each
> community could separately support a DIFFERENT SECTION of the HQ?

Yes, it was something like that - but they still do it through a ritual. My memory was that the Humakti warband could, say, specifically support your close combat/sword throughout the HQ.

regards,
Charles