[Rq-rules] Humakti Death Drive

[Andrew Larsen]

I would think a more important limit would be the requirement that the
Humakti honestly intend to live up to his geas. Taking a geas that you have
no intention of surviving to fulfill seems dishonest and a particularly big
no-no for a Humakti.

Andrew E. Larsen


On 1/22/06 9:21 AM, "Peter Johansson" <pmj at comhem.se> wrote:

> Hi Nikk!
> 
> Suggestion 1: Limit the number of gifts that you're allowed to take at
> anyone time. Gods of Glorantha states that a Sword are allowed to take
> as many gifts as he chooses, but as a GM you are free to limit it the
> way you want. I play it that you are only allowed to take a limited
> number of gifts at certain rituals (inititation, High Holy Days etc) and
> after performing heroic deeds.
> 
> Suggestion 2: Make the gifts random. However if a Sword is really going
> for the 2000+ POW, he can "roll on the table" until he gets it...
> 
> Suggestion 3: Let the moment for the sacrifice of 1 POW per year start
> at the moment the gift is taken. "So you want POW 2000, no worries here
> you go, btw it costs you 2000 in POW sacrifice. Welcome back to
> sacrifice another 2000 POW in a year." :-)
> 
> Suggestion 4: Have Humakt tell the Sword to get a move on and stop
> wasting his time. Especially since the gift taking is done with the
> intent of not "paying" something back to Humakt... Not a very honourable
> intention I would say...
> 
> Suggestion 5: Make the ritual to take a gift take time, for instance a
> week per gift, which would make the prayers for the gifts take 2000
> weeks and after 42 weeks (in a Glorathan context) the 1 POW per year and
> gift starts with the sacrifice of 42 POW. At least it would limit the
> raise to 41 and one week left to act.
> 
> Suggestion 6: Use a combination, or all, of the above.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>     /Peter J
> 
> 
> 
> Nikk Effingham wrote:
> 
>> Question: Imagine a Sword of Humakt is about to go on a Death Charge, and has
>> no intention of coming back alive. What's to stop him increasing a
>> non-raisable characteristic such as POW (past the species max) or INT by,
>> say, 2000 point via gifts and geases? Sure, you have to pay back 2000 POW a
>> year, but you'll be dead! And having 2000+ POW and/or INT would be pretty
>> useful (or, hell, APP - whod' attack a character with 2000 APP!).
>> 
>> Suggestions?
>> 
>> Nikk
>> 
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