Re: Real life and DQOS

["Rodger Thorm" <dqn@bignet.net>]

--- In dq-rules@egroups.com, "Mitchell Harris" <heneryville@u...> 
wrote:
> I was wondering if everyone has had enough time to push aside their 
> "real life" and start working on DQOS?  Just to see who is ready.

I'm not going to take on any big chunks of project at this time; a 
power-crawling baby boy takes a lot of attention.  But I am not going 
to keep myself completely out of the loop either.  If things start 
moving again, I will certainly be doing some creating and offering my 
opinions on other people's work.

I now have a campaign started with some friends locally, so I'm doing 
face-to-face DQ once a month, or so.  That means I have a group with 
which I can playtest some things, potentially.

One thing I'm working on right now, along with one of my players, is a 
College of Sun Magics.  While her first thought was that it would be 
an Elemental college, my inclination is to make it an Entities 
college.  I don't have a fully developed reasoning for this (I'll try 
to post that in another message soon), but my first thoughts are that 
the sun was often a godlike figure.  The stars always seemed 
marginal as an element to me; the sun is even less so.  Even if it 
is taken without any religous slant, the sun is such a presence 
that it deserves to be treated as an Entity.  

While Sun Mages would probably have a couple of pretty nasty attack 
spells, there might also be elements of life-giving (maybe a 
Blessing on Crops like Black Mages), a lesser truth telling spell 
(short of Truespeak), etc.  Sun mages might also be involved in 
leadership, personality, charisma, and the like.

This is all very preliminary, but I'd be interested in your comments.  
Could Sun Magics be an Entities College in your opinion, or should it 
be the fourth branch of Celestial?  

Suggestions for the spells, rituals and trappings for this college are 
welcome.

  --Rodger Thorm