> On July 13, 2007 05:27 pm, Simon Phipp wrote:
>
>> Personally, the split between animism/theism/wizardry was something
>> that I never understood and still have trouble with. I'm glad to see
>> it being watered down somewhat.
Not officially, Sir!
> It's not the split that ever bothered me. It was the implication that given
> religions were ONLY 1 or the other.
Woah woah woah!!
I have tried to emphasize over and over that RELIGIONS are ALWAYS
(almost) mixed.
> Or almost exclusively such. So
> concentration really seemed the natural default - and was necessary to being
> a "good magic user" it seemed - with Devotee and Shaman requiring it.
Devotee + someone devoted to a single entity. Shaman = a specialist, "devoted" to a single world and system of doing maic.
> I think Greg has made it clear more than once that the idea of the three
> worlds is important in some way - I just think the presentation could have
> been better and that the concentration rules as written incentivise
> concentration a bit too much.
I am hoping that in the new edition of Glorantha HQ that MD does will have, as its basic magic, a system that doesn't even differentiate, but only has a single (MIXED) magic system.
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