>You're asking a lot here...the normal course of action when a
>newcomer brings this up is for various Digest Illuminaries to >pat
themselves on the back, remind each other of how helpful >they are and
how much good they bring to the Glorantha fans, >and say
"Condescending? Why do people keep bringing that >up? We're not
condescending in the least..."
I realy don't think this is the case. I've saw the same kinds of comments since I first joined the digest many years ago, but I never experienced it myself.
There are a number of things that realy get up the noses of a lot of people on the digest, especialy old timers.
The first is people jumping streight on to the digest and posting their own opinions, much of which directly contradicts published sources, and either implying that it's the way Glorantha is, or that it's is the way it should be if it isn't. The 'I absolutely have to know what the secret of the God Learners is, or how do you expect me to be able to run Apple Lane?' brigade fall into this category.
Second most irritating is people who insist (usualy by implication) that the RuneQuest X (insert favourite version here) rules are realy Glorantha, and all the cultural waffle and history everyone else talks about is just irrelevent fluff.
Third most iritating is people who say that all this fan publication business, and the decade of unpaid work people have put into Glorantha, is realy all a waste of time. Nobody with their feet on the ground should even bother buying any of this amateur stuff. What we realy need is _yet_another_ warmed over reprint of a 15 year old suplement for a dead out of date game system, to rejuvenate the hobby.
The digest is part of the small but living, breathing _Gloranthan_ community as it exists today. That community has hopes and fears, and if threatened it will defend itself.
We have some of the best conventions in the hobby, the best freeforms in the hobby, the best amateur publications in the hobby. Now we have one of the best game designers in the hobby, working on the most innovative product portfolio, for the publisher of the highest quality games and supplements in the hobby.
Optimistic? You bet!
Simon Hibbs
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