[Runequest] Runequest Digest, Vol 11, Issue 1

[Andrew Larsen]

Another strategy would be to set a qualifying requirement. For the  
Sandles of Darkness, perhaps a person has to have 60% in Hide in Cover  
or Move Silently.

Andrew E. Larsen

On Feb 4, 2009, at 6:46 PM, Gary Sturgess <gazza666 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/2/4 Hola Hallo <easysamurai at gmail.com>:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Maybe this has been discussed already, but I wonder how do you play  
>> subcults
>> in RQ3.
>> One of my orlanthi PCs recently discovered a hidden (and portable)  
>> shrine to
>> the Sandals of Darkness subcult, guarded by Orvost Tintalker (that  
>> orlanthi
>> priest from Strangers in Prax), and of course this PC wanted to get  
>> the
>> runespell derived from it (Dark Walk), as described in the Orlanth  
>> cult in
>> "River of Cradles".
>
> The impression I got was that subcults weren't really mechanically
> different from associated deities - I'd just let them sacrifice for it
> at any Great temple (or Major Temple that happens to be devoted to
> that particular subcult).
>
> But I suppose if you wanted to make it harder you could either go easy
> ("sacrifice a point of POW to initiate to the subcult, and then you're
> set") or hard ("go on a simple heroquest that emulates what Orlanth
> did to get the sandals in the first place", perhaps having to sneak in
> to a troll cave and steal something - the something then becomes a
> focus that can be used to sacrifice for the spell).
> -- 
> GAZZA
>
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