Jose Ramos :
>a God whose existence cannot be proved except by faith will not answer
>many DIs. A big limitation IMO.
Or by revelation. ie DI.
>ME>Is God bound by the Compromise?
>You mean Zzabur's Bring Dawn spell?
Yup.
>ME>Many, many westerners only pay lip service to God.
>Why? Most westerners respect and fear God. They may distrust the local
>church, however. But to suppose that most people don't believe is a XXth=
>century rationalist projection. =
Sorry, should just have said "many" , not "many, many". I really don't have a set opinion regarding the number of people in Glorantha who have a true faith in God. My reading of St Augustine =
suggests that in his time, at least, it was a minority. =
Living in France tends to support this notion.
>People need to believe. =
But not necessarily in God.
>I have found this
>attittude in many glorantaphiles, and I suspect it is because they wear
>always their Dragon Pass theist/XXth century rationalist glasses on, who=
>cannot accept belief in an "Invisible God".
I, for one, can. =
(Of course, a form of personal revelation from God while on pilgrimage to=
Santiago de Compostela was of great help in this respect.)
>you forget that Westerner's souls/spirits disappear after death. A prove=
n
>"magico-scientifical" fact in Glorantha.
Not sure I've ever heard this one before. Is it in a published source I'v=
e
stupidly forgotten about? Is it a Digest consensus?
Smells like heresy to me. Burn him!
>ME>: Do westerners practice Resurrection? (answer : they do. rarely?)
>People were wondering if there were five or one hundred ressurrections i=
n
>Sartar, where there is an active cult known for this power. How many
>ressurrections by underground sorcerers (who have many more interestings=
>things to do) / ... / ?
Yes, here you have me convinced! These guys have *much* better =
things to do!
(new answer : they don't, except extremely rarely.) =
>ME>Do the Brithini *have* souls?
>>This is news to me, and, I think, wrong.
>I meant, spirit component of the person. You will agree they have spirit=
s, I
>suppose. And you need to make it go back into the body to ressurrect tha=
t
>person.
No, I don't. It occurs to me that brithini *can* perform resurrection because they *don't* have souls. To perform resurrection, then, they =
just have to get the life functions going again, and perhaps have some =
magic for forestalling neural deterioration. A mere technical problem.
(cultural diatribe appreciated, agreed with, and SNIPped)
Two publications (in french) which might interest some of you.
version of Basic RPG, with a cloak and dagger setting and alchemists. =
Seems OK at first glance.
Some RQ4 type rules changes. =
2) The comic "Coeur de canard" (ie Duckheart) is AD&D style adventure with beautiful art and featuring a duck. =
Not gloranthan, and not the much regretted Danold, but very nice indeed. By SFAR and Trondheim, published by Delcourt.=
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