On 26 Oct 2008, at 12:13, valkoharja wrote:
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> The podcast really did sound like the new version would be good for
> portraying Glorantha like Greg writes of it. I just started to wonder
> if _every_ adult heortling (for the usual value of every) really has
> 17+ in three runes, and most of the males have the storm rune.
>
> If I understood things correctly, that means that every Swen, Jürgen
> and Harald can throw lightning bolts and call down winds.
>
Not quite.
Now, I'm referring to the published playtest rules, and not the
updated version which is going to be printed, so things may have
changed.
In the rules I have, the start is 17 in one rune and 13 in the other
two. Then you need to be a full Initiate to use magic actively (which
may be the case for most Heortlings - it was in HQ1, but with the
changes to magic it may not be - especially with the minimum 1W in a
Rune that Mark Mohrfield mentioned). And lastly there is an automatic
-6 (or +6 to opposition, which is similar in effect) so they won't be
that good at it unless they have improved their ability in the Storm
Rune.
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