From:	Waffelmeisters <evamarie@**********.NET>
Subject:	Re: Replacing Geasa
Date:	Sun, 24 May 1998 14:53:54 -0500

>
> Replacing Geasa (Nexx3 , Thu 22:44)
>
> Normally, you can't get rid of a geas without either initiating or going burn-
> out. Would it be possible to replace one geas with another instead?
>
> For example, and ex-blood mage. After years of slaughtering people to fuel
> his magic, he has a revelation, and decides that blood magic is wrong, and he
> needs to get out. Unfortunately, his powers are still tied to the Sacrifice
> geas, he's a long way from a new initiation level, and there is no way he's
> going to deny the magical part of himself. Could he take a enw geas to
> replace the blood magic one... something equally restrictive, but not quite as
> messy?
>
> Nexx

I'd say NO. He'd have to live withthe (+2) penalty on magic use, until
he got rid of thegeas normally. Thats what makes it a GEAS, after all,
and not just a "friendly suggestion". He could use CENTERING to offset
the geas penalty, and hopefully his cenering skill isn't similarly
loathsome...

I would, however, let a Physical adept change a geas on a power when
intiating. The only way physads get rid of geasis buying them off with
points, which seems a rip-off, since mages can gain magic points AND get
rid of geas.



-Mongoose X