[Glorantha] Field College power level

[Benedict Adamson]

Mikko Rintasaari wrote:
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> [Graham Robinson]
>> Page 21 - Powerful. What that means in your campaign really depends on
>> the levels your PCs are at.
> 
> That, I'm afraid, is an ansver I have very little time for. The world is
> not just a subjective stage for the Player Characters. The training and
> power level of the Imperial Field Colleges don't change to fit the level
> of the player characters I happen to currently have in my game.
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You can both be right. The power of a particular person or unit does not 
change to fit the player characters. But which persons and units the 
player characters interact with does.

We can guess what their power levels must be: HQ:RiG page 19 gives 1W 
for a journeyman, 1W2 for a master, 1W3 for a master's master and 1W4 
for Heroes. So I guess the strongest members of the College would be at 
about 10W3, most about 10W and officers at 1W2. A Tribune with 70 mages 
of 10W receives an augment of +70*30/10=+1W1; if he is about 10W3, their 
combined magic is about 10W4.

A weak party of players can have a single mage as an opponent, super 
heroic the entire College.