Re: Casting feats on others

From: Charles Corrigan <charles_at_...>
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 15:16:15 -0000

> But if a feat is emulating your god,
> and not some D&D fly spell that you
> can cast on somebody, I'd say that
> this in-game description is more than
> good enough for me to rule that a feat
> can't be "cast" on somebody else. It
> just doesn't seem to fit the explanation
> that the text and other information has
> given me to understand on how feats work
> (though I could be vastly mistaken in
> this).

At <http://www.glorantha.com/hw/javern_sunsetleap.html> there is an in Glorantha description, written by Greg Stafford, of a devotee's use of Sunset Leap. This one feat was used to

* Escape at sunset
* Carry a whole warband out of battle
* Blind trolls
* Snatch a dying person back from the land of the dead
* Take several people from afternoon to sunset (time travel)
* As a generalised teleport - up to 5 miles going west and shorter
distances in other directions
* By a dying man as a shortcut to the land of the dead (cutting out the usual 7 days that a soul takes to get there).

On the other hand, in the same document, we also have a narrative that many Gloranthans think that it is impossible or wrong to do such things.

I hope that this helps a) show the flexibility designed into the Glorantha and b) the inflexibility/conservatism designed into many of the people of Glorantha.

regards,
Charles

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