[Rq-rules] Re: Continuum 2006, Illumination/Humakti Death Drive

[Simon Phipp]

Tom Zunder:
> > If you are European based are you going to Continuum
> > in 
> > Leicester this year and if so who is going to run
> > some 
> > RuneQuest?

Yes, I am almost certainly going. I'll play some RQ with pleasure, but nobody
wants to play in anything I try to run, so I've given up :-(

Ashley Munday:
> I volunteered a couple of years ago, and had precisely
> one interested party. 

And I am still interested ....

Bjorn Stolen:
> >Not all pantheons displike illuminates. Dara Happa accepts them, the
> Lunars
> >embrace them, Chaos includes them, even trolls and orlanthi accept them in
> >Arkat.
> 
> I'm aware of this, I was only generalizing a bit. I allso agree that
> playing 
> illuminates can make the characters incredibly interresting for the
> players! 

A discussion style I wholeheartedly agree with - selective generalisation to
prove a specific point :-)

> But on my part (as a GM), I feel that I need to know the players before I 
> grant them illumination, as I have experienced munchkin-shaman-red 
> godess-crossover-characters (not nessecarily a bad thing-gamewize, but when
> the player does it only to find loopholes in the game, I loose the urge to 
> GM RQ (or any RPG for that matter).

If they do it to find loopholes in the game then stop them by immediately
closing the loophole. Seriously, if someone is deliberately abusing the
rules, then change the rules or tell them to stop.

Also, if you don't want Illuminated characters, don't use the Illumination
rules. Don't riddle them, ignore the Puzzle Canal special effect and so on.
You don't have to use Illumination if you don't want to.

The biggest Illuminated cross-over I saw was a Death Lord/Shaman/Arkati, but
he had become a Mistress Race Troll, so that was specifically allowed in the
rules. Funnily enough, each event on his path happened naturally, with no
rules bending or abuse. He just ended up strange. Oh, and he was a Red
Goddess initiate as well, simply because the Red Emperor decided it was
better having him in the tent pissing out than out of the tent pissing in
....

See Ya

Simon