<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>Actually, I could see the temple Wards also needing a ceremony. This would be how temples get desanctified. The Wards and other enchantments are broken, and there is no one around to resanctify them. Why should the god worry about maintaining wards and such around an area where he no longer has worshippers?</div>
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<div >-------- Original Message --------<BR>Subject: [Runequest] Warding and Create Market<BR>From: Lev Lafayette <lev@rpgreview.net><BR>Date: Mon, November 24, 2008 1:49 am<BR>To: RuneQuest Rules <runequest@rpgreview.net><BR><BR>After a pretty savage encounter with Wardings in the Five Eyes Temple<BR>(Borderlands, Scenario Five) I've been wondering whether the spell as<BR>written (RuneQuest 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions) is perhaps a little too<BR>powerful. In RQ 1st and 2nd editions it provides Countermagic and<BR>Disruption between the four props and is permanent. In RQ 3rd edition it<BR>consists of Countermagic, Spirit Resistance 2 (as per the sorcery spell)<BR>and, for all intents and purposes, Disruption again. It is created<BR>through a ritual enchantment and is listed as "conditionally reusable".<BR>Most I imagine have played that to mean permanent in the sense that was<BR>applied in earlier editions.<BR><BR>However I have been wondering whether this is entirely appropriate.<BR>Usually a divine spell matrix has to be returned to a temple and a<BR>worship service has to be conducted to recharge the item. Now, there's<BR>no time listed for how long this takes, but I would assume it is a<BR>minimum of one hour as it is a Ceremony ritual.<BR><BR>So here's my idea. Warding is a reusable Divine Spell Matrix. Within a<BR>temple, it will be recharged automatically by a God (after all, it's a<BR>temple - they don't want them to be closed down!). Outside of a temple<BR>however, it's a bit of a one-shot item, until it can be re-enchanted by<BR>a Worship (deity) ceremony. For all intents and purposes however, when<BR>an Issaries Priest casts Create Market they have also temporarily<BR>established a local place of worship, like a combination of Warding and<BR>Sanctify.<BR><BR>Anything terribly wrong with this proposal?<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Runequest mailing list<BR>Runequest@rpgreview.net<BR><a href="http://rpgreview.net/mailman/listinfo/runequest_rpgreview.net" target=_blank mce_href="http://rpgreview.net/mailman/listinfo/runequest_rpgreview.net">http://rpgreview.net/mailman/listinfo/runequest_rpgreview.net</a><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></span></body></html>