From:	Fade <runefo@***.UIO.NO>
Subject:	Re: Insect Totems
Date:	Mon, 25 May 1998 10:05:56 +0000

> Hey what about Shamans following Insect totems with normal bonus dice and
> normal spirits makeing the standard Insect "shamans" a different
> tradition?

Hmmmmmmmmm...........

The way I run the local campaign, that would work just fine, no
problems - good idea, in fact. It would go well with the I.S.'s
really being from 'otherwhere' and just incidentally looking like
insects we know about. (Waiting out there to lure wandering initiates
into opening a gateway for them to enter, the whole paranoia bug
terror thing.). On the other hand, it changes a few precepts of how
things are, and should be a house rule, at best.

Some would make excellent totems, though - Ant, for instance.

Ant Shaman

Ant is the industrious worker and the selfless soldier. Always
cooperating, physically industrious, Ant is seen both in urban and
wilderness areas.

Ant shamans gets +2 dice for manipulation spells, and +2 dice for
conjuring spirits of the hearth.

Disadvantages:
Ant cooperates, and will go to almost any length for the good of the
group. That doesn't mean Ant will be taken advantage of - anyone
trying that would not be for the good of the group, and should be
forced out - but he must make a will(4) test to not help with any
endevor or action that aids the group as a whole.

Ant is the perfect corporate wageslave, but also an asset for any
runner team.
--
Fade

And the Prince of Lies said:
"To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven."
-John Milton, Paradise Lost