From:	Luke Kendall <luke@********.CANON.OZ.AU>
Subject:	Re: Quickening...
Date:	Thu, 7 Apr 1994 12:02:01 +1000

Brian W. Allison wrote:

> > Alexander> Can someone quote the rules as saying Quickening is an
> > Alexander> astral bridge?
> > It's in one of the DLoH answer lists. No, I don't know where they're
> > archived; I've been looking for about a month or so.
>

> What is DLoH?
>

> However, Quickening doesn't have a physical component. That's what is
> required for grounding out, or else Sustained spells would be a problem too.

My understanding is that the DLoH (The Dark Lord on High, = Tom Dowd)
says you can ground through a Quickening; and that Paul Hume (writer of
the Grimoire, etc.) says that you cannot. This is my recollection of
informal discussions that people have reported here.

My personal opinion is that Paul Hume has a better sense of how the
magic works, and the game balance effects of the rules. Most of the
published scenarios showed little appreciation of this, according to
our GM - he had to tighten things up considerably to make many of the
modules challenging. (This was because we had 2, and sometimes
3 mages in the party.)


luke