<div>Hiya All</div> <div> </div> <div>I've been using a _heavily_ modified version of Steve's Runic magic for Spirit Magic in my RQPavis campaign.</div> <div> </div> <div>Originally, I had problems in how the runes were described, how the magic was too wooly and not specific enough and the fact that it was not spell driven. The runes were too powerful, gave too many abilities that were too powerful and did not lend themselves to specific cult-based magic.</div> <div> </div> <div>What I have done is to turn the idea on its head, making it driven by the runes and the spells themselves. So, you get runes with associated Runecasting skills, you can attune/align more runes to up your chance of casting a spell, you can manipulate a spell to get a greater effect/number of targets/duration/range but you have a specific spell list that is compatible with older versions of RQ.</div> <div> </div> <div>It seems to work reasonably well, especially after I
realigned the table so that it behaves in a similar way to RQ3, and the players in my campaign prefer it to the RQ3 idea of variable/non-variable spirit magic.</div> <div> </div> <div>However, I do call it Spirit Magic, not Rune Magic, as Rune Magic is, in my eyes, another name for Divine Magic.</div> <div> </div> <div>I have saved it as an Excel Spreadsheet for several reasons:</div> <div>1. Tables are so much easier to lay out in Excel than HTML</div> <div>2. I can specifiy the format to print out each tab landscape/portrait or specify the number of pages</div> <div>3. I can have multiple tabs with more information in one file rather than having a huge HTML file or many HTML files</div> <div> </div> <div>Most people should be able to read Excel spreadsheets, especially as there is nothing particularly fancy in it.</div> <div> </div> <div>Anyway, I have posted it on the RQPavis site at <A
href="http://www.geocities.com/rqpavis/magic.xls">http://www.geocities.com/rqpavis/magic.xls</A> in case anyone is interested in having a look and giving me some feedback.</div> <div> </div> <div>See Ya</div> <div> </div> <div>Simon</div> <div> </div>