[Runequest] POW gain - mechanically?

[Lev Lafayette]

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 15:16 -0500, Styopa wrote:
> Well dang, that might explain the strange lack of response....posting
> again here:
> 
> OK, I'm curious about the various readers' responses and opinions to
> mechanistically using disrupt or other trivial spirit magic spells to
> try to get POW gain rolls to raise one's POW?

I don't allow it; basically for a POW gain roll the character has to be
under serious psychic stress to warrant one in my opinion. Mind you in
the interests of game balance, I don't make them roll for it either, I
just give them a POW gain. 

Example: Last Sunday ran Gaumata's Vision, from Shadows on the
Borderland. I think everyone gets at least a point of POW from that...
One character, who almost was eaten, will probably get two..

Basically, I used the same house rule as I do for skill checks. Either
you learn through annual "living" experience, you learn through
training, tutoring or study or you learn from genuine
"fear-for-your-life" adventuring.

All the best,


Lev