[Runequest] Shaman and SPQR - Re: Ghosts and Spirits

[Lev Lafayette]

How about Turkic-Siberian Shaman? After all that's where the word comes
from...


Lev

On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 08:24 -0700, Paul Cardwell wrote:
> Mythworld has two types of shamans: one is the African type as shown in the original Runequest, with a fetch; the other on the North American Plains pattern with a trance anchoring the shaman to one spot, but giving immunity to damage (a bison stampede would go around, just like with a large boulder).  This is far too detailed to cover here, but the game is still in print.
> 
> Paul Cardwell
> 
> 
> --- On Mon, 10/20/08, Dale Long <dtl at internode.on.net> wrote:
> 
> > From: Dale Long <dtl at internode.on.net>
> > Subject: [Runequest] Shaman and SPQR - Re:  Ghosts and Spirits
> > To: "RuneQuest Rules" <runequest at rpgreview.net>
> > Date: Monday, October 20, 2008, 7:52 AM
> > Lev Lafayette wrote:
> > > I've recently been running my Sunday afternoon
> > group through Dyksund
> > > Caverns (Shadows on the Borderland) so I've had
> > plenty of opportunities
> > > to look up ghosts and spirits. Especially since one of
> > the PCs became
> > > possessed and another insisted on consuming large
> > quantities of hazia in
> > > order to engage in more direct negotiations (and
> > threats).
> > 
> > On a similar topic, I have been looking at revising ghosts,
> > spirits and 
> > shamans under RQ2 and SPQR. I like the original feel of the
> > RQ2 shaman, 
> > however, I never felt that it was fully realized. I have
> > seen Sandy 
> > Petersen's revised shaman rules, however I am
> > interested in seeing how 
> > other people have defined a shaman and expanded the rules,
> > especially 
> > for SPQR.
> > 
> > Dale.
> > 
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