[Glorantha] Re: Glorantha Digest, Vol 12, Issue 276

[Nic Hughes]

Ian Cooper <ian_hammond_cooper at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:


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> It is not that I would mind folks ramping up magic crystals as an in-game item, associating them with runes, and making them a part of play, but removing the fundamental connection between magic and community bothers me somehow. Deciding to worship the Lunar way instead of following the Storm Tribe becomes a bit less meaningful if most people get their magic from the blood of the gods which they picked up by killing the person who owned it before them anyway. "Hey Jonrik now you are 16 it is time to pop over to the neighbours and murder a few of them so that you can take their magic." Glorantha as 'kill people and take their stuff'.
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Until we see the whole book I think we are speculating a little here. If 
I were writing this into the system I would have each religion having 
the means to obtain runes relevant to their god through 
ceremonies/quests/challenges. A bit like the old RQ Spell Teaching but 
reworked to be a quest for a lost fragment of the god or perhaps a 
challenge of worthiness versus a daimon of the religion. If the learning 
of rune magic is completely detached from religion then I would agree 
with you that something has been lost but we would need to see the 
chapter on religions to know if that has happened.

So the adventures and "kill people to take their magic" would be to get 
hold of exotic or unusual magics, not those taught by the cult. Of 
course "kill people and take their stuff" was always part of RQ as we 
played it.

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Nic