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I thank ppl here for the comments. My take is that Bless Crops will not be in the arsenal of the young, 3 weeks per season adventuring, would be priestess. It is for the old stationary priestess with 18 runepoints, and not much to do with half of them. The blessing of crops is a roleplaying moment for pc:s. Not an simulation game mechanic. Rune spells will for now focus on more action oriented things.

I thought the priestess blessed all lands of Ernaldans and Orlanthi and this was what the weekly cermony was for. A fertility rite to help the clan supported by the magic of the godess. The weekly holidays was important for the renewal of the connection, the runepoints. I like it less that the rituals are for the occasional runepoint used for heal wound. The initiates bless their land on their own. My Ernalda initiate will spend her magic on the runespell Brew, until that is bound too. She is not Bitter, its just the beer. 🙂

The vagueness of the first statement (being under the protection) works fine, because it is up to everyone in game exactly what that means and how it applies, while the super specificness of the second one in describing a game action "cast Bless Crops" rather than something equally general like "The local priestess will ensure Ernalda's blessing are upon their lands" where the exact nature of this could be worked out in game. It might be an artifact from before the Bless Crops/Pregnancy rules were clarified, but even then, it is uncertain whether it would work. How many hides belong to the village the priestess and her assistant are responsible for? Ten? A hundred? The number of runepoints becomes unfeasible fast, even with assistants. One way of dealing with this which I don't think is explicitly against the rules (correct me if I am wrong) would be to have the local priestess lead the blessing of the fields, just as is described in many more local volumes (the fertility stones in sun county etc) and cast the Bless Crop spell in cooperation with the owner of the fields. The Priestess (or one of her assistants) hold the knowledge, but the rune points are supplied by the people who will actually be working the fields. Just like many people can help with enchanting items and other larger ceremonies. I feel that way, the rules could stand as written, without the priestess having to lock up her own rune points. And the family members could sacrifice a rune point per hide, which would not be too heavy a burden if spread among several people. I like this. I think that the priestess should be out blessing every field, and support the ritual to make it solid aka Bless Crops cast by the Initiate.

Well... here I hoped to get support for MY IMPORTANT issues. 🙂 It is not a big issue, but the rules should support fun play. The benefit you get from a Bless Crops is a fifth of the time you turn a failed 40 L income to 80L. 1/5 * 40 = 8L Special chance increase gives 2 L more. Net effect 10L. A priestess binding 10 runepoints for 3 seasons will thus earn the tribe 100 L. A year when there is bad harvest, it is perhaps a better choice to go adventuring and leave the Bless Crops to initiates. To be able to use Heal Wound and Shield in one fight to defend the village will be perhaps be worth more. And in a sudden war are all points tied up...

Hmmm... perhaps this means that... "Mundane Benefits Initiates of Ernalda are under the protection of Ernalda’s local husband. The local priestess will cast Bless Crops upon their lands." Pagw 18 Earth cults ... that the priestess Blesses the husbands crops... hmmm. "Their" should refer to plural initiates. Anyhow. If there is a battle the priestesses are there with healing etc. But not without rp.

A priestess with 10 runepoints will get back about 50 runepoints during Sea season, if they are all spent and not bound, during Minor holidays and Seasonal High holy days. The difference due to duration is thus between 50 Bless Crops and 10. If a player min max this and puts 10 Bless Crops on 5 hides there is a very big yield from these 5 hides. This is bad. The upside is that the priestess can use magic for other things. If they are bound she can Bless 10 hides once and get her points back in earth season. No other magic. How fun is that? Better to limit Bless Crops to one per plot. A fair use of Ernaldas power. Not abuse.

If every Ern initiate has the benefit of Bless Crops, there are not enough Runepoints held by the priests to do that. So why does it say that in both RQG and Earth cults? What fun is it for a Runepriest player to bind all their runepoints 3 seasons? Clearly, initiates themselves can Bless their own crops. And then why is it something the priest is required to do RAW? My question is why is the text wrong? Not how can we do something about it, which is trivial.

There are many ways to address the issue. As a player of a potential Ernalda priestess, my interest is that not all her runepoints are bound. When Bless Pregnancy and Bless Crops bind runepoints for a long time, it is less fun to play a priestess. Ofc she will do what is required, but how can she defend the village when her magic is spent? Or should the Benefit of a Bless Crops be removed from Initiates of Ernalda? There is no limit put on Shield 3 with Extension 5. But bless crops is nerfed. I would prefer a soft rule like: Only one Bless Crops is cast per hide unless Ernalda is extremely pleased. (A good devotion Ernalda roll.) Only Bless Pregnancy on Chosen ones, or people who have special problems. Or something.

In RQG Bless crops is Duration Instant, this is changed in Red Book of Magic to Duration Special explained in Q&A from Sea season to Earth Season. This binds one runepoint per hide of land, realeased during Earth Season. https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com/home/catalogue/publishers/chaosium/cha4034-the-red-book-of-magic/cha4032-the-red-book-of-magic-qa/cha4032-red-book-of-magic-chapter-02-rune-magic-spells-qa/#ib-toc-anchor-34 A Initiate benefit for Ernalda is that the Priestess casts Bless Crops on your land. P 18. Eart cults. Mundane Benefits. This means that a Pristess must have one Runepoint per Initiate, and that that amount cannot be used for anything else for 3 seasons. A new Priestess is required to have 5 runepoints. All of those bound, or? Isnt this a lot of bound runepoints? I assume the binding of runepoints was done to stop "overblessing". IMO this creates overbinding of runepoints. A better way might be to say that more than one Bless Crops per Hide requires permission from...someone... or some justification...

A priest need to have 18 pow and max is 21. No enchants with more than 3 points are possible, unless you allow collaboration POW. So it should be allowed. I still would not accept bought pow from outsider. Im no Lunar!! 🙂