From: owner-rq-rules-digest To: rq-rules-digest@hops.wharton.upenn.edu Subject: RQ Rules Digest: V3 #39 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, 23 August 1996 Volume 03 : Number 039 TABLE OF CONTENTS Hasni Mubarak Enchanting Human Flesh Loren Miller ADMIN: listowner HQ start imminent Nick Effingham Runes 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. When paraphrasing you demonstrate exactly how well you understand the point someone was trying to make. 4. There is no number 4. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hasni Mubarak Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 00:52:01 -0400 Subject: Re: Enchanting Human Flesh Simon D. Hibbs wrote: > >I charge an extra point of power for enchanting a person. Also, I highly > >encourage people to put conditions like, "Uh, nobody who kills ME can use > >this bloody (no pun intended) thing!" > Of course, you would end up with a whole new class of voluntary cripples - > They get an Enchanter to create a big MPME enchantment (or whatever) on > If you realy weant to change the rules so that you can have a game world > like this, you are welcome. > Simon, please re-read what I said. I said that I charge an EXTRA point of power for putting an enchantment on a person instead of on something like a big rock. AND I encourage them to put an extra point of power into it AGAIN to put a condition on it, so nobody is liable to murder them over their enchantments. So, to get a disrupt matrix put on your finger is going to cost the Enchanter THREE points of power, if you do it right. I don't see that as unbalancing, man. In fact, I do it specifically to keep PC's from having 30 hit point enchantments and 10 armouring enchantments on every limb. BTW, why do you think a cripple is going to sell off his ear as a matrix, wouldn't he be better off just carving a block of wood and giving it to the enchanter? I'm not sure I see what attraction you see in having human-flesh enchantments... Hasni Mubarak BTW, SAndy, thanks for the non-violent magic items. Oh, and when somebody invokes lightning, do they have to roll a to hit, or overcome magic points? ------------------------------ From: "Loren Miller" Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 15:16:49 EST Subject: ADMIN: listowner HQ start imminent Hey Everybody, A few of you on the glorantha list were talking about marriage as a heroquest or at least a powerful and transformative ceremony, and it's about time for me to experience that moment for myself. I'm heading down to Alabama tonight to spend a week prior to our wedding with Stacey, whom I love dearly, and then after we get hitched we'll be spending some time in Savannah and finally moving her stuff up here and into my spacious apartment. Whether we arrive back in town on Thursday, Sep. 12 (yay) or Friday, Sep. 13 (shiver) I will be unreachable by computer for the duration. So I'm signing off the list in the meantime. Any messages that bounce for whatever reason will stay bounced, and any messages that you send to the listowner instead of the list reply address will also disappear until I return. And when I return on Monday, September 16 I will have passed the only traditional rite of passage to adulthood that we still have in the majority culture of the USA. Cheers, Loren p.s. for photos see my homepage. - -- +++++++++++++++++++++++23 Loren Miller Life at the water's edge is the real life for men and women, and penguins ------------------------------ From: wal@eff.u-net.com (Nick Effingham) Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 20:13:58 +0100 Subject: Runes Glenn Glazer wrote: rune (surprise!), but has the rune only once. Then again, we're talking >chaos here, so anything goes. Actually, if you check out the revised Lords of Terror, then Primal Chaos now has two chaos runes -- effectively it was a misrprint IMO. However, Primal CHaos should have one chaos rune and the infinity rune 'cause it was the source of the Chaos Rune, unlike Humakt or Orlanth and their runes where they are only the current owners. >On page 13 of the _Glorantha Book_ is an INCOMPLETE list of runes and their >owners. For a more complete list, I can post what I have derived from >straining multiple sources, mostly the _Cults Book_, _Cults of Terror_ and >_Cults of Prax_. Greg has said that there are hundreds of unknown runes that are unique to a specific culture. Frex, the Power rune in the Pamalt pantheon, the Dust rune in the Earth Goddesses of Esrolia, or look at BoDR and it's new runes. BTW, isn't this supposed to be on the Glornathan Digest? Just checking :) Nick E. - ------------------------------------------------- Nick the Shaman of Thed E-Mail:wal@eff.u-net.com http://www.u-net.com/~eff/ I thought Britain was Dorastor without broo, but then Sandy made it all clear to me. - ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of RQ Rules Digest: V3 #39 ****************************** This is the bottom of the RuneQuest Rules Digest. RuneQuest is a trademark of Avalon Hill, and Glorantha is a trademark of Chaosium. With the exception of previously copyrighted material, unless specified otherwise all text in this digest is copyright by the author or authors, with rights granted to copy for personal use, to excerpt in reviews and replies, and to archive unchanged for electronic retrieval. 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. 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