[HQ Ignorance] Hero Points (and about time too!)

[Lev Lafayette]

On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 21:10 +0000, Nic Hughes wrote:
> Lev,
> 
> One of the things I want to do with HP is back-fill the part of Aalmon's 
> history where he learned Minderkind School sorcery. I have a slightly 
> non-standard view of sorcery, so I thought I'd better clear some of my 
> funkier ideas with you before I go ahead. My own vision of sorcery is 
> much a more colourful one in which grimoires and talismans are not just 
> mundane items but have a distinct magic of their own. Grimoires in 
> particular are so magical there are distinct magical side-effects and 
> they tend to develop a personality of their own. Game mechanically I 
> would want to make grimoires a sort of personal guardian or embodied 
> essence, the wizard has a personal relationship with each Grimoire and 
> can call on its magic accordingly in addition to the routine bit of 
> reading the words on the pages to cast spells. Talismans would be 
> semi-magical named items with their own minor helpful abilities.
> 
> Its not quite rules-standard so I though I should check you are happy 
> with it before I start spending HP on embodied essence Grimoires and 
> uniquely magical talismans.
> 

Nic that's a wonderful idea. Also it suits the sentience already 
displayed in the Abiding Book, so it's perfectly OK.

All the best,


Lev