From: owner-rq-rules-digest To: rq-rules-digest@hops.wharton.upenn.edu Subject: RQ Rules Digest: V2 #239 Reply-To: rq-rules Errors-To: owner-rq-rules-digest Precedence: bulk Content-Return: Prohibited Return-Path: owner-rq-rules-digest RQ Rules Digest: Friday, 19 April 1996 Volume 02 : Number 239 TABLE OF CONTENTS Loren Miller ADMIN: end of school year unsubscription i James Griffith Spell special effects Hugh Foster Hog-tied Rune Lady Ed Taychert ADMIN: end of school year unsubscription i JBickmeyer@aol.com How many hands on the Matrix? RULES OF THE ROAD 1. Do not include large sections of a message in your reply. Especially not to add "Yeah, I agree" or "No, I disagree." Or be excoriated. If someone writes something good and you want to say "good show" please do. But don't include the whole message you praise. 2. Use an appropriate Subject line. 3. Learn the art of paraphrasing: Don't just quote and comment on a point-by-point basis. 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Send electronic mail to Majordomo@hops.wharton.upenn.edu with "help" in the body of the message for subscription information on this and other mailing lists. If you get the direct version you see it in the headers of every message. Take that advice. Email to majordomo@hops.wharton.upenn.edu for FULL information on how to subscribe and unsubscribe to this list, and others on this site. Cheers, Loren with his list-owner hat on - -- +++++++++++++++++++++++23 Loren Miller Life at the water's edge is the real life for men and women, and penguins ------------------------------ From: jrg1@maildrop.srv.ualberta.ca (James Griffith) Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 09:58:52 -0600 Subject: Re: Spell special effects >Bladesharp, for example. It's a spirit spell that makes swords and such >hit harder and with greater accuracy. Now, how might such a thing come to >be? Well, looking at things from an animistic perspective, I figure that >the spell represents an arousal of the spirit that is the weapon itself. >EVERYTHING has a spirit, you see, a spirit that is the essence of the >thing. (Or maybe everything partakes of the platonic ideal of the thing? > I like to see who is casting the spell. For a warrior for the spell might mean that momentary trance to gather ones thoughts and "focus your energies, grasshopper". I essentially think of a warrior clearing his mind or whatever which allows him to fight better. On the other hand a sorceror cast a damage boosting or something would be visable or at least obvious. James. ------------------------------ From: Hugh Foster <100326.446@compuserve.com> Date: 19 Apr 96 15:45:03 EDT Subject: Hog-tied Rune Lady >> This has the nice advantage that, when you Rune Lord is hog-tied, beaten senseless etc. She could simply do something like: "Now, if you don't let me go I'm going to have to be mean [this is after 10 minutes torture :-]. Then she takes 5 seconds of loud clearing of throat like she's about to spit (since her hands are tied) and then pretends to spit. Her allied spirit takes this chance to cast 4 multi-spelled sever spirits (!) and everyone falls down amazed. The natives untie her and worship her and everyone lives happily every after. << I would have expected the allied spirit to pile in and help rather sooner! Seriously, though, seems pretty reasonable to me. Does it even need the cover, though? I mean, what are the bad guys going to do to stop the AS casting, whether or not they hear the effects? HWF ------------------------------ From: elt@irony.com (Ed Taychert) Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 20:39:19 -0400 Subject: Re: ADMIN: end of school year unsubscription info > From world-design-owner@hops.wharton.upenn.edu Fri Apr 19 14:02 EDT 1996 > > [chomp] > > Please *don't even suggest* the use of "irony" tags in html, my other site "www.cgi-bin.com" already get's hit with 80% the badly typed URL's on the net ... I just don't think I can take any more heat. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ed Taychert | iG's Dice Server - Over 180 Million sides rolled! elt@irony.com | http://www.irony.com/webdice.html ------------------------------ From: JBickmeyer@aol.com Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 23:09:26 -0400 Subject: How many hands on the Matrix? Oliver Bernuetz >OOPS, my mistake, actually I meant to ask can more than one person >use a spirit magic matrix at a time. >Silly me, OK. Matrix not Foci. As I recall when a person is in contact with a spell matrix that person knows the spell. In addition IMO any anyone wanting to cast from a matrix would have to be in contact with the matrix for the time it takes to cast the spell. What you would have to take into consideration is the situation and the object the spell matrix is on. It might be inconvenient to hold onto someone’s armband or sword haft to cast a spell in a combat cituation. However I can see a Bladsharp 3 Matrix on a post just inside the entrance to an Orlanth bachelors long house. They all grab the post for 5 to 6 SR to cast BS3 on the way out. Possible good use of Spell Matrixes for clans. Jim Bickmeyer ------------------------------ End of RQ Rules Digest: V2 #239 ******************************* This is the bottom of the RuneQuest Rules Digest. RuneQuest is a trademark of Avalon Hill, and Glorantha is a trademark of Chaosium. 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