House of Maris campaign: rules

Chaosium's Elric game system, using RQ3 magic rules. Elric uses a simplified version of Basic Role Playing derived from Call of Cthulhu 5th edition as much as from Runequest. It's a much more smooth-flowing, extensible system which copes very well with high-powered characters. Character generation and rules summaries are at Dave Dunham's site.

General Rules Addendum

I rule that magical healing is much more difficult than as presented in RQ3. Successfuly casting a heal spell requires a successfull roll against the Physik skill (The equivalent of First Aid in Runequest), or the normal chance to cast the spell whichever is lower. Spell casting time remains the same. This rule applies to the Heal spell, Treat Wounds and Neutralise Damage. Divine spells are unaffected.

This rule is compensated for somewhat by the fact that HPs falling to 0 or less only causes unconsciousness and bleeding. HPs must drop to minus the character's normal HP total before the character dies.

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