Re: Critique of Summarized plans

[Philip Brown <philb@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>]

>>>>[From Brian Thomas]
    
    	And so on. A player without "praying" or "wizardry" would 
    be unable to perform magic. A player without "arms" would be able to 
    attack with weapons, but would never advance without the skill. Lack
    of "hth" skill would make martial arts attacks impossible. 
    
    
I liked it fine up until here.

realistically speaking;
Anyone can pray, without an in-born "skill".
  (but getting something back is going to be rather rare :-)
Anyone can fight,without a "skill".. and if they fight a lot.. they are
going to get better.

magic is the only thing I could see as "you got it or you don't"
kind of thing.

If a "magic user", maybe you need the special "magic-chanelling gene".
If you're doing clerical type magic, you obviously need to have
devoted your life to your god toget special favours