Bloodlines and casting Divine spells without Gods

[irdeggman]

Originally posted by Trithemius@Feb 1 2004, 09:50 PM
teloft:

> an idee for a dm to conect the Spell level thay can grant with there

> RP.

>

> If I am to grant a 2nd level spell for 3 month I burn 2 RP. Now

> everyone devoded to me with cleric levels can cast this 2nd lv spell as

> any other cleric.



Scions are gods now?

In My Cerilia I would *certainly* not allow this as a general rule; and I would

baulk at using it even in highly specific cases (i.e. like the Serpent and the

weirdness involved there). Are godless clerics really a good addition to the

Cerilian setting?



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John Machin

You are reading too much into this. The discussion revolved around awns (and potentially ersh) that have (in 2nd specifically) followers that have divine spell casting abilties and trying to come up with some game-mechanic explanation for it.

There was some discussion over this a while back (I can't remember when and don't have the inclination to do a more in depth search for the threads) talking about this. The belief was generally that for awn/ersh with true bloodlines they could begin to make the ascension to godhood. This process is some what covered in Deities and Demigods. Awn/ersh are more than just scions and this needs to be remembered whenever something involving them is brought up.

Regardless of the tact taken - this process would be limited to only those with true bloodlines. And in 2nd ed (as well as 3/3.5) a scion cannot 'gain' a true blood line by any act he undertakes. Raising his bloodline strength through the process detailed in the Book of Regency (2nd ed) or the Revised Chapt 2 of the BRCS does not allow gaining a true bloodline sttrength.

[Trithemius]

irdeggman :

> You are reading too much into this. The discussion revolved around awns

> (and potentially ersh) that have (in 2nd specifically) followers that

> have divine spell casting abilties and trying to come up with some

> game-mechanic explanation for it.



No no, that is exactly what I thought it was.



> There was some discussion over this a while back (I can`t remember when

> and don`t have the inclination to do a more in depth search for the

> threads) talking about this. The belief was generally that for awn/ersh

> with true bloodlines they could begin to make the ascension to

> godhood. This process is some what covered in Deities and Demigods.

> Awn/ersh are more than just scions and this needs to be remembered

> whenever something involving them is brought up.



I`m not convinced that awnsheghlien and erhsheghlien *are* a lot more than just

powerful scions. I think they might just be scions who consider their bloodline

to be their defining characteristic, instead of their ability to rule more

efficiently (or however you describe the RP generation and expenditure process).



These creatures certainly become something else, I do not think that

this "something else" is a god though.



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John Machin

(trithemius@paradise.net.nz)

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