> On July 15, 2007 03:50 am, Greg Stafford wrote:
>> > 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.
>
> You have. The HQ rule book, as written, failed to make that clear. (To me,
> anyway, and I suspect I am not alone.)
I do not disagree with you here.
It could have been clearer.
>> > 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
>> magic.
>
> But both require concentration, IIRC.
Yes, but I would disagree with "god magic user." I would say, "great magic user."
>> 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.
>
> That would be lovely, and would have probably avoided a lot of the confusion.
I blame it on the editor. :-)
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