Re: Ho Much Rule fiddling Is Tolerable?

From: L.Castellucci <lightcastle_at_DQ9g-nrFyGC8RkoprQQF4QJZibunin2MBw_YpS9nuZmOCnepzOqJlAR4WqgpMWiO>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:34:11 -0400

Yeah, this is sort of the view I had of the matter. Charms aren't just neutral.

On July 19, 2007 08:41 pm, Toread DuDerysi wrote:
> 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...