Are there any rules or skills for religious/psionic asceticism in any of the books or anywhere in the Megaverse?
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Asceticism rules anywhere?
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Asceticism rules anywhere?
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Re: Asceticism rules anywhere?
The Japanese & Chinese Monk classes found in World Books 8 & 25 are both essentially mystic aescetics. I also believe the Psi-Warrior class was described in similar terms in WB12.
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Re: Asceticism rules anywhere?
There's a Fasting Skill in Mystic China that lets you go extended periods without food or drink without suffering penalties.
There is nothing that gives you special powers or abilities in return for giving up Equipment, if that's what your asking. There are ways to become MDC or deal MDC through training with various incarnations of Martial Arts (Conversion book 1, Rifts Japan and Rifts China have conflicting versions on how this works), which make an equipment-less character more viable, but astheticism isn't required and Nothing stops you from using them with equipment and weapons and armor as without. Some styles do forbid armor or weapons and/or encourage asceticism, but others don't and work just as well if not better.
There is nothing that gives you special powers or abilities in return for giving up Equipment, if that's what your asking. There are ways to become MDC or deal MDC through training with various incarnations of Martial Arts (Conversion book 1, Rifts Japan and Rifts China have conflicting versions on how this works), which make an equipment-less character more viable, but astheticism isn't required and Nothing stops you from using them with equipment and weapons and armor as without. Some styles do forbid armor or weapons and/or encourage asceticism, but others don't and work just as well if not better.
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Re: Asceticism rules anywhere?
Nekira Sudacne wrote:There is nothing that gives you special powers or abilities in return for giving up Equipment, if that's what your asking.
Thank you for finding an excellent way to reword my question to make it far more comprehensible.
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A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box - Frederick Douglass
I am a firm believer that men with guns can solve any problem - Inscriptus
Any system in which the most populated areas have the most political power, creates an incentive for areas that want power to increase their population - Killer Cyborg
A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box - Frederick Douglass
I am a firm believer that men with guns can solve any problem - Inscriptus
Any system in which the most populated areas have the most political power, creates an incentive for areas that want power to increase their population - Killer Cyborg