Hawkmoon: Sorcery duration

[Soulclaw]

I am going through the Hawkmoon rules preparing a campaign and noticed that a number of sorcery spells do not have any duration listed (spells like Diminish Characteristic, Damage Resistance, Dominate, to name a few). Is there a default duration that I overlooked somewhere?

 

[SSWarlock]

I am going through the Hawkmoon rules preparing a campaign and noticed that a number of sorcery spells do not have any duration listed (spells like Diminish Characteristic, Damage Resistance, Dominate, to name a few). Is there a default duration that I overlooked somewhere?

Yes.

See the table "Manipulating Sorcery Spells" on page 27 of the RuneQuest Companion book; default range of any sorcery spell is equal to the caster's POW in metres.

 

[Soulclaw]

They do not actually list this in the Hawkmoon rule book? I thought it was a stand alone product.

Also, range? Did you mean duration and mistype?

 

[SSWarlock]

They do not actually list this in the Hawkmoon rule book? I thought it was a stand alone product.

Oh? I didn't realize that. I'd assumed it was based on RQ *slaps self*

Also, range? Did you mean duration and mistype?

Yes, I mistyped; sorry about that. Of course, if Hawkmoon is a standalone then my comment should be ignored entirely since it was based on my assumption that HM uses RQ as its core.

 

[Soulclaw]

I assume HM is some mutant form of RQ but I haven't played RQ since RQ 3 or 4 came out so I don't know the differences. Just out of curiousity what is the default sorcery duration in the current standard RQ?

 

[Swampy]

If you look on page 110 of Hawkmoon it says that the durations are equal to the casters POW in rounds as a default. Each spell that is different from this will have it noted in its discription.