[Rq-rules] Improving a Bound Spirit's POW

[David Smart]

Thank you, Nikk. I was thinking along the same lines but it's nice to have confirmation. I've found that, while I do come up with some good ideas (according to my player group), some of the best I use come from this list.

David

-----Original Message-----
>From: Nikk Effingham <phl0nje at leeds.ac.uk>
>Sent: Dec 29, 2005 6:54 PM
>To: rq-rules at crashbox.com
>Subject: Re: [Rq-rules] Improving a Bound Spirit's POW
>
>Quoting David Smart <jurrubin at earthlink.net> on Thu 29 Dec 2005 10:21:05 PM GMT:
>
>> Does a bound spirit roll for POW improvement if it's successful in POW vs POW
>> contests due to a spell it casts? I've always thought not but then I'm kinda
>> remembering a conversation on this list some time ago that decided otherwise.
>
>IIRC RuneQuest II had it that such spirits (including allied spirits) would get
>a POW tick, but ONLY make their POW tick on a roll of 01-05. Again, my mind is
>kinda fuzzy on this point, but in RQ II the spirits had no maximum POW. SO old
>spirits just naturally had a huge POW. I can't recall how much of that is true.
>
>RQ III had no specific rules concerning this, and so presumably spirits were
>treated exactly like normal beings, so their maximum POW is calculated as per
>normal embodied beings and they get POW ticks and POW gain rolls as per every
>other creature.
>
>Nikk
>
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