friends in the game, have extremely vulnerable dead nobles with
more than one noble point invested in them. I would hate to have
someone do a LR on them and all that other stuff be lost. On
the other hand, if the game was advanced three years and there
were scores of necromancers running around, I would be pissed as
hell that I could not have a handy priest do LR to keep at least
one noble point in place.
If only one's faction can do LR, then if I never develop a priest
with LR (not an insignificant possibility for me, and possibly a
larger one for other people) then I could not get someone to do it
for me. Again, looking down the long road, I think that it would
be best if LR remained a two-edged sword. It is kind of nice (as
game spokesman for the "wild magic") to me that something can be
both blessing and bane depending upon who uses it.
Now, for those players who graduate into having sorcerers and
such, let me add to my earlier "Discretion" skill, and the "survive
fatal wound skill" a further skill, to be invested in particularly
valuable characters:
"Block Manipulation Time: 7 days Aura: As invested
For the number of aura points invested, you can defeat
that number of invested aura in attempts to give last
rites or defile through necromancy [or other spells that
I don't yet know of]. Aura is cumulative, and remains
with the character until it is used up."
Not that this will do me or my friends much good these next few
months, but I think it might be a bit of an overreaction to change
the way the spell is now. (Maybe, also, as Harold[?] pointed out,
death is maybe a bit too cheap for the advanced and well-connected
players in the game)
One question, Rich- When my noble died in bu21, he was buried
in bl13; in effect, moved from Provinia to Drucartan, a total distance
of 8 up and 8 over, which is a long slog over a mountain range. In
the recent battle, characters who died in bx22 were buried in bw22. Is
it completely and fiendishly random where you get buried, is it random
within a certain distance, is it random within the same land mass, or
is it supposed to be the nearest graveyard?
-Chris Butchko