Re: Priest Scrolls

It makes sense to me. I think the energy used by a
priest of Thor would be a little different vibration
from the one used by a priest of Loki. I always assume
that gods get part of their energy from worshipers.
The larger the followers, the larger the magic energy
they can hand down as miracles or magic used by their
priest. I think that when a priest scribed the magic
to a scroll that the same energy is preserved until
released. I think that a priest of Loki would not
understand fully how to release that energy in a
controlled manner. I might give him a chance of as a
thief chance in using a magic item. Failure to
properly release the energy might cause serious damage
or consequences.

I also propose that certain scrolls would only work in
specific areas (wildspace/flow) or plane, if their
magic is restricted by area of use.

A.Sibal
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--- Paul Westermeyer <westermeyer@????????.net> wrote:

> Does it strike anyone else as odd that a priest of
> Thor could scribe a Cure Light Wounds or Bless or
> Augury spell on a scroll, somehow lose said scroll
> before casting the spell from it, have the scroll
> discovered by a priest of Loki, and then had that
> priest of Loki cast the Bless spell, for example,
> perhaps even on a group of giants about to attack
> one of Thor's Temples?
> 
> I'm strongly contemplating specifying deity for
> priest scrolls when they are discovered in treasure
> hoards, basically treating such scrolls as not just
> magic items, but holy items of their specific
> religion.
> 
> Since priesthoods vary so much in most AD&D/HM
> games, with large polytheistic pantheons, perhaps
> priests could use the scrolls that come from allied
> deities, deities from the same pantheon, or deities
> of the same alignment.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> CREON: The state, I pray, It is not reckoned his who
> governs it?
> HÆM: Brave rule! Alone, and o'er an empty land!
>  Sophocles Antigone, lines 841-843; translated by E.
> H. Plumptre, 1865.
> 
> Paul Westermeyer, westermeyer@????????.net
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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