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So I'm cobbling together my go at 'newRQ2' for a game this Sunday (as someone here said we want quality not deadline, we can all cobble together our house rules anyway)

I reckon I've got workable opposing pairs of Runes/Traits for most of the key ones

But what about Plant? What Rune is opposite to that?

 

 

Al

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Most runes don't have a single opposite - plant is one of the form runes. Placing beast as opposite of the man rune in the personality traits may have created the impression that there was a dualism in the forms, but that is no more true than relations between the elements.

For most humans, plant has little relevance as a personal rune, and most plant magic is subsumed into the Fertility/Life rune.

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Yeah, the Form Runes don't have opposites, nor do the elemental runes.

Only the Power Runes have opposites and they are naturally arranged in pairs.

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The Guide provides a hexagonal relationship map for the form runes (p.148) which provides unspecified relationships between the six runes on the scheme (clockwise, from the top: Man, Plant, Chaos, Dragonewt, Spirit, Beast). The two internal triangles suggest (to me, at least) that this is a projection of an octahedron with the six form runes on its corners. (Or alternatively a cube with the six form runes on its sides.)

Discussing the nature and arrangement of these connections/positions probably fills centuries of Wizard and God Learner research papers.

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All good replies, thanks chaps

I'm doing it different to the official one 

Was aware that Power Runes form a nice set of dualistic traits but that Form (into which I'd folded Element) don't. But I'd written (scribbled!) myself into a corner over my Rune Magic Runepower rules. Best to pull back and try another approach

Thanks all

 

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So anyway I flip-flopped, returned to my original (using the word in its loosest possible sense since I've derived the lot from other people's work) and went for Darkness opposing Plant

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On 2/23/2016 at 1:37 PM, Al. said:

So I'm cobbling together my go at 'newRQ2' for a game this Sunday (as someone here said we want quality not deadline, we can all cobble together our house rules anyway)

I reckon I've got workable opposing pairs of Runes/Traits for most of the key ones

But what about Plant? What Rune is opposite to that?

 

 

Al

Page?

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That creates difficulties with darkness as opposite. After all if you are mixing Plant with Page, you get Darkness metal... or was it rock?

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Another potential problem; reckon Lemmy would have described bloated-indulgent-era Zeppelin* and Darkness both as novelty acts. So there would be no opposition

 

 

* be clear I say that as a man who genuinely owes his existence to Zeppelin, but Octopuses and groupies? Nah mush

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