>Can I safely assume that we will "rest" Michael's lounge this Sunday, and
>defer the Meeting until February ??

Personally I'd rather we didn't as there are items sitting on the agenda 
that nothing have been done about for a while as we haven't been able to 
raise a quorum.

However, on that subject, I suspect that we would not be able to get a 
quorum anyway as most people on the mailing list have work addresses and 
many firms are on holiday still, which means that the meeting notices won't 
reach everyone. So, I guess the next meeting is in February.

Keith
(phaeton@ihug.co.nz)



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hi there, please see below

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Smith <phaeton@ihug.co.nz>
To: dq@dq.sf.org.nz <dq@dq.sf.org.nz>
Date: Wednesday, 3 January 2001 21:01
Subject: [dq] Rulebook Questions


>i) With the Binding Earth Ritual, is the Base Chance fixed at 10% i.e. it's
>10% + 0/rank or was the x/rank left off? If there is an x I assume it would
>equal 3.


Good question: Earth has base chance of "10%"; Ice has Q2: "MA + 4 per
rank"; Water has Q1: "MA + 4 per rank";
In general I noticed that rituals specify base chance AND increase per rank,
even when that increase is 3. So we cannot assume the +3 is by default.

>
>ii) I'd like to add the following text to the end of the Binding Earth
>Ritual. 'and it cannot be moved through by any magical means, (Wizards
>Eyes, and other magics allowing passage through solid objects).


This is a rule change, although many GMs play it this way already. Indeed I
was surprised recently when we discovered that eyes could travel through
bound earth. If the gods decide this is a good idea, then perhaps it should
be offiered as an option for binding earth (IE teh adept cannot move or mold
the earth) along with intelligence etc.

>
>iii) On page 26, in the table marked Cast Check Modifiers should it be
>clarified that the effects of MA does not apply to Talents or Rituals. I'm
>proposing the text be changed from 'Spell casting' to 'Spell Magic' to
>bring it in line with the earlier definitions and maybe add (not Rituals or
>Talents). This should make this rule more obvious to those unfamiliar with
it.


Good point - the rules are fairly specific on this in one direction, but not
the other. Can we poll the gods on which way we play this?? I think the
rules could be clearer, and a way to achieve that is to specify the
negatives as well as the positives (IE in this case, add "MA bonus does NOT
apply to rituals and talent magics.") as this stops this kind of question.
Makes the rules a bit longer, but we should buy quality, even if we pay by
quantity.



>
>iv) Page 11 - Should the section on Elemental Aspects be re-iterated in the
>Magic Section so that all the general cast chance modifiers are in one
place?


If this is considered appropriate, then I suggest we add to 7.4, "In
addition to the individual _aspect modifiers and_ College modifiers, ....."

>
>v) Fire College Speak to Fire Creatures (page 77) does not have a duration
>listed. Should it have one?


My version of Book 2 has this spell added, with a duration of 20 minutes
plus 10 per rank for this spell. Lets add this to the rules, and not compare
this with too many other colleges.

>
>Keith
>(phaeton@ihug.co.nz)
>
>
>
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What is on the agenda which is urgent and relevant?

There are a few areas of work in progress - Namer, Rune, Mind, Ranger, maybe
some others. However, no one has said "here it is, vote it in/out" - we
don't need a meeting for progress reports.

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Smith [mailto:phaeton@ihug.co.nz]
Sent: Thursday, 4 January 2001 11:18 a.m.
To: dq@dq.sf.org.nz
Subject: Re: [dq] Gods this Sunday ???



>Can I safely assume that we will "rest" Michael's lounge this Sunday, and
>defer the Meeting until February ??

Personally I'd rather we didn't as there are items sitting on the agenda 
that nothing have been done about for a while as we haven't been able to 
raise a quorum.

However, on that subject, I suspect that we would not be able to get a 
quorum anyway as most people on the mailing list have work addresses and 
many firms are on holiday still, which means that the meeting notices won't 
reach everyone. So, I guess the next meeting is in February.

Keith
(phaeton@ihug.co.nz)



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Dear all, in an earlier post I may have misunderstood what Keith was asking
and hence the list.

    The issue, as I now understand it <g>, is how to make the rules more
explicit on the point Keith raised....


>> >iii) On page 26, in the table marked Cast Check Modifiers should it be
>> >clarified that the effects of MA does not apply to Talents or Rituals.
I'm
>> >proposing the text be changed from 'Spell casting' to 'Spell Magic' to
>> >bring it in line with the earlier definitions and maybe add (not Rituals
or
>> >Talents). This should make this rule more obvious to those unfamiliar
with
>>it.
>
>
>>Good point - the rules are fairly specific on this in one direction, but
not
>>the other. Can we poll the gods on which way we play this?? I think the
>>rules could be clearer, and a way to achieve that is to specify the
>>negatives as well as the positives (IE in this case, add "MA bonus does
NOT
>>apply to rituals and talent magics.") as this stops this kind of question.
>>Makes the rules a bit longer, but we should buy quality, even if we pay by
>>quantity.

>I remember being told that the MA bonus was only for spells and, at a past
>Gods meeting several years back, that was reinforced as it was felt that
>applying the bonus was 'doubledipping'.

Ian



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