Re: Ho Much Rule fiddling Is Tolerable?

From: Toread DuDerysi <jakyer_at_C6iOWGrMqN_yBptQjwEEH2t6VEoYMQDPnJYHkc_OQafpuZ_WDkQ7wpLjmjd4vu45TY7sp>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:41:04 -0000

• In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, "Chris Lemens" <chrislemens_at_...> wrote:
  >
  > LC:
  > > I am not so certain you can lend charms, though.
  >
  > A shaman does not lend charms, but a spiritist obtains charms through
  > the shaman's good graces with the great spirit. By comparison, the
  > initiate is simply emulating the god.
  >
  > Chris
  >
  The usefulness of a charm is purely based on the spirit's relationship to the user. A shaman introduces the charm spirit to the spiritist, a practitioner obtains his fetishes through worship, and makes a spirit ally. Even a hostile spirit, imprisoned for a single use, has some sort of magical relationship to its binder (even if the shaman hands it off).

I'd be very wary of letting someone loot charms or fetishes. They are not grenades or blaster-packs or the like. They are religious objects to a great extent. One might use magic to force them into service or they might work once and then go free but...

...using a strange fetish I have taken from a man I'd killed scares the willies out of me. When I my players have tried it, the results have ranged from negative augments to giant face-eating wraiths attacking a group in mid combat - but that may have been due to lack of preparation and complacency on their part (or that they were all theists).

I personally don't think that a lewted fetish is like the proverbial +2 sword - cast Identify and you're good to go. But YGMV. =)

Jeff