Re: Mundane vrs Magical, the official Issaries quick reply

From: JEFFREY KYER <jeff.kyer_at_...>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 21:40:26 -0000

• In hw-rules_at_egroups.com, "Roderick and Ellen Robertson" <rjremr_at_s...> wrote:
  > >From the keyboard of Greg:
  >
  > > Q: Can Gloranthan characters increase their mundane skills to the
  point
  > > where they are essentially supernatural, just like
  feats/affinities?
  > > A: Yes.
  

Ah, interesting. So you eventually 'beccome magic' when you get very, very good. That explains Harrek very well. =) Or that Onslaught guy...

> > Q: So why would anyone ever bother with feats and affinities
instead of
> > just increasing your skills?
> > A: Because the difficulties are different. To leap a tall tree
with a
> > tree-leaping feat, you face the magic resistance difficulty of 14.
 To
> leap
> > a tall tree with your mundane leap ability, you face a difficulty
of 10w3.
> > It takes a long time for the character who has simply been
developing his
> > ordinary Leap ability to do what a greenhorn can with his Tree
Leaper
> feat.

Ah, this is very useful. Particularly with feats which are particularly specific -- run on water, run on snow, run up cliff... Oh, this opens up some wonderful avenues for play. And remember, if a player can do it, so can somebody from the Black Oaks. Fair is fair.

Thanks!

Jeff