Mundane vrs Magical, the official Issaries quick reply

From: Roderick and Ellen Robertson <rjremr_at_...>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 13:40:57 -0800


>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.
>
> 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.

Roderick

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