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RQ Rules Digest:          Friday, 10 February 1995      Volume 01 : Number 076


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David Dunham via RadioMail    RQR: Battle Magic; RuneGrognards

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From: David Dunham (via RadioMail) <ddunham@radiomail.net>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 20:26:03 -0800
Subject: RQR: re: Battle Magic; RuneGrognards

>From: Tim Leask <tsl@cs.mu.OZ.AU>
>If we are looking at the possibility of a focussing skill how about looking
>at battle magic spells themselves and see if they can be improved.
>I never liked the total game construct of variable battle magic spells 
>like bladesharp. Characters should simply know the spell bladesharp.
>IMHO the variable effect should be at the time of casting.

While this is exactly what I do in PenDragon Pass, I think backward
compatibility suffers big time -- it's true you could tell people to ignore
the "4" in "Bladesharp 4" in a published scenario, but this is a definition
of the character's abilities (not just some mechanically computed number
like SR).

>From: ANDOVER@delphi.com
>So let's get this straight: we are talking about a game called Runequest,
>which won't mention runes?  I don't think that you have to be a grognard
>to see a problem here!  If I am a newbie to the game, I would expect it
>to have something about questing for runes!  Or is this bad old grognard
>thinking? Jim Chapin

Obviously you didn't start off with 3rd edition, or you would see nothing
new about a game called RuneQuest with no runes in it.

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