Re: Legends: Statuses

From: griffith@netcom.com (Jim Griffith)

Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 00:00:00 +0000

daniel@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at (Daniel Jocham) writes:

>The enchant-status is the first in the proper chain, i dont believe, that he
>can override any status. but if you really want to have tha status, then
>kill your charakter, resurrect him with a undeath-ritual, remove the
>undeath-status afterwards(hope, that the charakter survive this procedure)
>and viola, the enchantstatus can be spoken on him.

This won't work.  Killing a character with a religious status leaves the
status in place.  An undead status *never* overcomes a religious status
(and vice versa), so the Rite spell will fail.

Status stuff is confusing, and the real scoop isn't really established.
Basically, every status has a power level and some sort of alignment.
Certain status alignments cannot overcome other ones (religious and
undead can never overcome each other, and I believe lycanthropic is also
difficult to overcome).  Certain statuses are traditionally weak and
can easily be overcome (the local hero tree is the one that springs to mind -
Enchanted should overcome it).  I believe a powerful enough undead spell
will overcome enchanted, but I'm not sure.

Supposedly, nowadays, it's a moot point when talking about your own
characters.  You can supposedly SA to drop a status you have if it's a
"positive" status (there are hoser statuses, such as "Fool", "Mindless Wreck",
etc.).

Jim

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References

Re: Legends: Statuses
daniel@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at (Daniel Jocham)
Thu, 11 May 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Legends: Statuses
jgairns@emr1.emr.ca
Wed, 10 May 1995 00:00:00 +0000