[Rq-rules] Re: Humakti Death Drive

[David Smart]

Nikk Effingham posted:
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>I'm going to side with Pete's Suggestion 3, that you have to make payment on the
>gift immediately.

Same here. I don't mind if my players become uber as long as they earn it. IMO, if a player comes up with an innovative way to get around the game mechanic loopholes, that just helped me as a GM find and plug it.

And there are many different ways to "plug" a loophole, as has already been posted to this list.

>>Say, the character was an Illuminate, he could take the gift and never have
>>to repay it. Why don't they all do it? Because they can't - Humakt wouldn't
>>let them. Because it's silly.
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>This was my follow-up question. What to do with Illuminates? Can they take the
>gift at all?

On this one, I'd say "no". Again, it gets back to what the god wants. Just because an Illuminate can ignore the geases of received gifts and won't be tagged by retribution spirits doesn't mean the god who gave the gift(s) is ignoring what the Illuminate does. I rule the god knows exactly what the PC is doing and chooses to allow the reigning in of geases and retribution spirits for his/her own reasons.

But then I view Illumination as a limited form of ascension on one of the paths to Hero status.

David