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07-03-1998, 01:25 AM #1Clayton F. HintonGuest
rules vs. history: who wins?
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>>Actually elves also need bloodlines to cast realm magic. Why? Simple the
>>material component of Realm Magic is GBs and also, and here it comes,
>REGENCY >POINTS. And since only blooded people can collect RP then only
>blooded people >can cast realm magic. The only exception that I can think of
>are Gods and, from >what I have read here, maybe Cerilian Dragons. Both
>these "races" seem to be >able to collect RP without a bloodline (hey the
>bloodlines come from the gods >after all).
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>Making Ley Lines also requires regency and they according to those passages
>were definetely doing that as well.
Sounds to me that someone made up a storyline that is inconsitent with the
rules. Way to go, TSR.
- -Clay
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07-03-1998, 04:45 PM #2Pieter A de JongGuest
rules vs. history: who wins?
At 08:25 PM 7/2/98 -0500, Clayton wrote:
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>>>Actually elves also need bloodlines to cast realm magic. Why? Simple the
>>>material component of Realm Magic is GBs and also, and here it comes,
>>REGENCY >POINTS. And since only blooded people can collect RP then only
>>blooded people >can cast realm magic. The only exception that I can think of
>>are Gods and, from >what I have read here, maybe Cerilian Dragons. Both
>>these "races" seem to be >able to collect RP without a bloodline (hey the
>>bloodlines come from the gods >after all).
>>>
>>Making Ley Lines also requires regency and they according to those passages
>>were definetely doing that as well.
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>Sounds to me that someone made up a storyline that is inconsitent with the
>rules. Way to go, TSR.
>
>-Clay
It's happened before, and it will happen again. If you really want a
confused storyline, look at Greyhawk, there is a relatively large argument
over which modules and sources are "canon" and "non-canon".
Pieter A de Jong
Graduate Mechanical Engineering Student
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
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07-04-1998, 03:12 AM #3James RayGuest
rules vs. history: who wins?
Maybe Im missing something, but which story line isnt consistent with the
rules? My impression would be that Cerilian Dragons DO have bloodlines,
which would enable them to control Sources and collect Regency from them.
The same would hold true for Elves...If they had had a monopoly on True
Magic AND Realm Magic, the Elf/Human Wars might have turned out radically
different, but I think Realm Spells exist solely because of Deismaar,
having thrown all that divine essence out there, allowing scions to tap
into that mystical link between Regent and Land.
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> Actually elves also need bloodlines to cast realm magic. Why? Simple the
material component of Realm Magic is GBs and also, and here it comes,
REGENCY >POINTS. And since only blooded people can collect RP then only
blooded people >can cast realm magic. The only exception that I can think
of are Gods and, from >what I have read here, maybe Cerilian Dragons. Both
these "races" seem to be >able to collect RP without a bloodline (hey the
bloodlines come from the gods >after all).
Making Ley Lines also requires regency and they according to those passages
were definetely doing that as well.
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> >Sounds to me that someone made up a storyline that is inconsitent with
the rules. Way to go, TSR.
> >
> >-Clay
> It's happened before, and it will happen again. If you really want a
> confused storyline, look at Greyhawk, there is a relatively large
argument over which modules and sources are "canon" and "non-canon
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07-05-1998, 03:01 AM #4Tim NuttingGuest
rules vs. history: who wins?
Rules never dictate story... I'm sorry.
The ONLY written material that we as BR players and DMs have regarding the
wars before Deismaar are presented in the Atlas, which is great, but
understand this:
The Atlas is penned in character. From beginning to end (save the Forward)
the booklet is purely from the perspective Calliede Dhosiere (sp?), and
thus the ENTIRE THING is suspect information. Absolutely NONE of it can be
positively relied on to be accurate history, totaly free of bias.
Likewise Blood Enemies is penned in character, and the same applies. The
authors are clear to point out that certain awnshegh interviewed are very
probably lying, so how do we know that they are telling the truth?
The point? That the only way this information is really reliable and valid
is for our respective DMs to say "it is", otherwise its just another
history book written by the winners (because, after all, the humans
obviously won the war....)
Tim
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