From: owner-runequest-rules@ (RuneQuest Rules Digest) To: runequest-rules-digest@lists.MPGN.COM Subject: RuneQuest Rules Digest V1 #194 Reply-To: runequest-rules@mpgn.com Sender: owner-runequest-rules@ Errors-To: owner-runequest-rules@ Precedence: bulk RuneQuest Rules Digest Tuesday, November 3 1998 Volume 01 : Number 194 RuneQuest is a trademark of Hasbro/Avalon Hill Games. All Rights Reserved. TABLE OF CONTENTS [RQ-RULES] HTML Editors [RQ-RULES] re: is something wrong? [RQ-RULES] Psionics Redux Part 1 RULES OF THE ROAD 1. Do not include large sections of a message in your reply. Especially not to add "Yeah, I agree" or "No, I disagree." Or be excoriated. If someone writes something good and you want to say "good show" please do. But don't include the whole message you praise. 2. Use an appropriate Subject line. 3. Learn the art of paraphrasing: Don't just quote and comment on a point-by-point basis. 4. No anonymous posting, please. Don't say something unless you're ready to stand by it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 15:20:55 -0500 (EST) From: bjm10@cornell.edu Subject: [RQ-RULES] HTML Editors I've been playing with HTML since before there were any kinds of HTML editors out there--I learned the old-fashioned way by cribbing other page's source HTML files. (I remember when there was actual controversy over whether or not tables should be done instead of using 
 tags!)  
Anyway, now that my bone fides are out of the way...

I use AOLPress.  I understand HTML 3.2 (and am coming up to speed on HTML
4 and CSS) just fine, thank you very much, but AOLPress lets me get all
the boring crap out of the way.  If I want something to look just so, I go
into the HTML and make it just so, but the vast majority of page creation
is done with the editor.  Why?  Because the vast majority of page 
creation is boring scutwork.  I have found it to be FAR more efficient to 
use AOLPress to do a quick preliminary layout, and once the broad strokes 
are sketched, I then go into the HTML and fine-tune by hand.

Why AOLPress?

1:  The price can't be beat.  It only costs the time it takes to download.
2:  Unlike the utter CRAP that Microsoft puts out, AOLPress does not load 
down your pages with non-standard and degenerate pseudo-HTML (things like 

 and DTD statements that do not conform to any standard on the 
planet, for example).
3:  You have a choice of using mozilla (not recommended in my opinion) or 
strict HTML 3.2 tags when there's a difference.  This means that your 
text size modifications ALWAYS WORK!  I've seen so many pages designed on 
Microslime software with a 2-point typeface (ever try to read a 2-point 
typeface?)  Yeah, on SOME machines with SOME browsers, it looks okay, but 
it doesn't work on all machines and all browsers.  The HTML3.2 tags 
always work, on all machines and on all 3rd or later iteration browsers.

There are some limits, like you can't do embedded lists in the WYSYWIG, 
but you can always add those by hand in the HTML.



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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 15:55:35 -0500
From: Brad Furst 
Subject: [RQ-RULES] re: is something wrong?

At 02:35 PM 10/30/98 -0500, Bob Stancliff wrote:
>Hi, I haven't gotten a rules e-mail in three days or so.  Is my e-mail failing?

I haven't posted to the rules e-mail in three days or so.  

Brad Furst
esoteric@teleport.com


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Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 10:23:22 -0500
From: Tal Meta 
Subject: [RQ-RULES] Psionics Redux Part 1

Since the list has slowed to a crawl...

I've taken a break from my god writeups to revamp my house system, and
got around to rewriting my psionics rules. What follows is
un-playtested, but hopefully balanced enough to be servicable. The
current version is designed to be more compatable with RQ as a whole,
removing the seperate "Aspect" points and utilizing magic points instead
(allowing characters with this system too use normal magic point
matrices).

PSIONICS 
	Psionics is the exercise of mental energy. The psionicist's world view
is one where the mind, body and spirit have been honed to perfection.
Since a psionicist must spend permanent characteristic points to acquire
their abilities, they also spend a great deal of time honing the skills
that shape those abilities. 

BECOMING A PSIONICIST
	Psionicists tend towards  two forms of groupings; solitary and Towers.
Finding a solitary teacher is rare, as they seldom seek out students.
Towers are somewhat easier to run across, especially if the seeker
already has some psionic talent.
	Towers generally accept students without requiring payment, but only if
there is a need within the group for more workers. In areas where they
are common, Towers serve as communication stations to link kingdoms and
empires together, so telepathic aptitude is generally well sought after.
However, some areas have found use for psionicists as anything from
police forces to the nobility itself.

THE ASPECTS
	A psionic posseses six Aspects, one for each of the major groupings of
psionic talents, namely  clairsentience (CS), metapsionics (MP),
psychokinesis (PK), psychometabolics (PM), psychoportation (PP), and
telepathy (TP). His strength
in each of these becomes the strength he can put behind the skills he
will learn to manipulate them.
	The total Aspect of a psionic can never, under normal circumstances,
exceed his current POW characteristic. Certain races are known to
possess psi potential greater than the norm, however.
	[Example: Loco has a POW of 16. He could have the following breakdown:
CS:2, MP:3, PK:1, PM:3, PP:4, and TP:3.]
	Each Aspect has several skills (or disciplines) that fall under it. A
psionicist is limited both by his skill in the controlling discipline
and by the strength of his Aspect.

IMPROVING PSIONICS  -  ASPECT
	Experience: When a psionic increases his POW by any means, he may
choose to increase any one of his Aspects by transferring the point of
POW to the Aspect he wishes to raise.
	Training/Practice: A psionic individual can also give himself added
levels of in the same fashion that he might employ to raise his POW
characteristic.
	Other:  If a psi "forswears" a discipline he has mastered, he may add
one point to the strength of the governing Aspect that does not count
against his limit.

IMPROVING PSIONICS   -  DISCIPLINES
	Experience: Disciplines are skills; normal experience is just as
effective on them as with any other skill.
	Training/Practice: Again, as skills,  psionic disciplines are as easily
trained or researched as any other skill.

NATURAL PSIONICS
	Some races are just naturally psionic.  Whether this is a survival
trait for the species, or something selectively bred for, such beings
have a flair for psionics that "endowed" individuals cannot match.
	For races with such a natural gift (Deryni, Duergar, Larani, Tiisari,
etc.), certain facets of their Aspect are not limited by their POW. For
example;  a Deryni 's Telepathy Aspect is counted as only 1/3rd of it's
total strength (i.e. a Deryni with a score of 9 in TP is considered to
only have a score of 3 with regards to balancing their Aspects.

MULTIPLE PSIONIC OPERATIONS
	Solitary - Whenever a psionicist activates a discipline,  a percentile
dice roll under their skill is required. Under normal circumstances, the
normal point cost for that discipline will keep it active for a number
of rounds equal to that discipline's governing Aspect. A critical roll
will enable the psi to keep the disciline functioning for a number of
turns equal to the strength of his Aspect.
	[Example: Arik possesses CS: 4 and has 55% in the Danger Sense, a 1
point discipline. 1 magic point will cause his danger sense to remain
operative for 4 rounds. A critical roll would keep it running for 4
turns.]
	Gestalts - When psionicists work together in groups, it is required
that all of the participants in an operation have the same effects, in
addition to knowing the skill of Gestalt. For each psionic in a gestalt,
+1 is added to the highest Aspect of
the group.
	[Example: in a group of 4 psis, Fred Parker has the highest Aspect in
Telepathy (6). The other 3 members increase his Aspect to 9.]
	To form a working link, the psionicists in question must live in close
association with one another for several weeks as well as develop a
positive percentile skill in Gestalt.

GESTALT (00)
	Simply put, Gestalt is the skill of linking minds together easily for 
the purposes of psionic operations. To form a Gestalt, the group must
successfully roll against the lowest of the member's Gestalt skill,
which is modified by -5% for every member of the group. In a Tower, new
members are usually restricted to minor tasks that only involve small
groups, so that their low skill does not negatively affect the
operations of the Tower as a whole.
	A Gestalt takes a number of melee rounds to enter equal to the number
of  participants.  This check can be made once per melee round.
	While in a Gestalt, each contributing member besides the coordinator
increases the Aspect of the coordinator by 1. However,  the magic point
cost for the discipline is increased by 1 for each member in the
gestalt, as well. 
	[Example: In the above example, each member of Fred Parker's group
would have had to expend 5 magic points to perform their mental
surgury.]

LEARNING PSIONIC DISCIPLINES
	For the most part, psionic disciplines are skills, and can be taught
like any other skills.  Anyone who knows a discipline at 90% or better
can write down a description of it, using his Write skill. A student who
successfully Reads this scroll and studies it for 50 hours can learn the
discipline by rolling his INT or less on 1d100. If he fails, he can
study another 50  hours, then try his INT x2 or less. Then INT x3, and
so forth. If the  writer got a Critical success in Write, the reader
gets to add his INT x2 to his chance of success on each 1d100 roll(
i.e., he starts out  at INT x3 instead of INT).  If the reader gets a
Critical Read when studying, then for that 1d100 roll, he gets to add
his INT x2 to his  chance. 
   [Example: A critically-Written scroll in Ancient Bakluni describes
the discipline of Power Transfer. Aric gets a critical Read Ancient
Bakluni while reading it. This means his 1d100 roll is equal to his INT 
(basic chance) + his INTx2  (for his Critical Read) + his INT x2 (for
the  scroll's bonus) totaling his INT x5.]
    If a teacher who knows the discipline helps, his skill is added to
the student's chance. If he is teaching more than one pupil, his  skill
is divided among the total number of students. Example: the  instructor
knows Animate Shadow at 89% and has 8 students. 89/8 = 11.125, so each 
student gets +12 to his chance of success when rolling to learn the 
discipline.
    At the end of the training or research, the student receives a skill
in the discipline equal to his INT.  
	For each point of Aspect a psionicist has,  he may possess one
discipline in that field.  A psi may expand his possible disciplines by
either raising his Aspect in that field, or by  investing his Aspect
into an outside source, and using that external Aspect to  store new
disciplines.

FORGETTING PSIONIC POWERS
	Alternatively, a psi may "make more room" in himself by forgetting the
use of disciplines he already possesses. This process takes a number of
hours of meditation equal to the current skill.
	If a psi "forswears" a discipline he has mastered, he may add one point
to  the strength of the governing Aspect that does not count against his
limit.

USING PSIONIC POWERS
	Psionicists begin all psionic activity on a SR based on their INT,
instead of their DEX. On rounds when a psi elects to use his powers, he
gives up the opportunity to perform physical actions for the rest of
that round.
	After the name of each discipline will be either a (I) or (S).
(I)nstant disciplines require the expenditure of their rated point cost
to work once, and (S)ustained disciplines will remain in effect for a
number of rounds equal to the strength of the governing Aspect.

PSIONIC RECOVERY
	A psionic expends magic points to fuel his abilities, just like a magic
user, and his magic points regenerate at their normal rate.

PSIONIC RANGE 
	All psionic disciplines have a range based on the strength of their
governing Aspect, as per the table below.
	
        Psionic Range			
Aspect	Range	Aspect	Range
1	Touch	9	640 m
2	Touch	10	1.28 km
3	10m	11	2.56 km
4	20m	12	5.12 km
5	40 m	13	10.24 km
6	80 m	14	20.48 km
7	160 m	15	40.96 km
8	320 m	16	81.92 km

	The only way to increase the range of a discipline is to enter into a
gestalt with enough members to boost the strength of the governing
Aspect to the desired level.

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