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From: ade@insignia.co.uk (Adrian Brownlow)
Subject: Lots of things
Message-ID: <14395.9305070954@piglet.insignia.co.uk>
Date: 7 May 93 03:04:14 GMT
Mail*Link(r) SMTP Lots of things
William C Robertson writes :
> You're right, I was thinking of the major magazines, like White Wolf,
> or Dragon. I just assumed that those magazines had international
> distribution.
I think they do, but doesn't Dragon print a UK edition? If so they probably
make advertizers pay double. To get Yank mags over here you need to take the
$price and just stick a #163# sign in front, this makes it a little expensive.
Besides do all roleplayers buy the magazines? I don't because most of the stuff
in them is uninteresting to me. The only mag I read is TOTRM - which is the
only one worth buying. (By the way does David Hall read this? If so is my
subscription due yet?)
> AD&D isn't better that RuneQuest, but TSR has
> a very competent marketing department.
Or has a bigger marccoms budget. (probably both)
> I'm going to Taiwan
> soon to continue my studies, am I going to be the only person playing
> RuneQuest there?
Very probably.
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P A Snow write :
> The reason everyone who's got it wants to see Cults of Prax reissued
> in some form is exactly this. CoP was probably the first game
> supplement to have a decent 'soft' background. It's still very good
> even by today's standards.
Look I know this is gonna make me unpopular but....
AH & Chaosism are absolutely right to publish the cults in the way they do. If
I were new to RQ I could nip down to the games shop (Not Just Stamps - in
Wycombe - PLUG) and pick up a copy of Sun County. I could go home, read it and
then run an entire campaign with just that book.
When playing Glorantha meant go out & buy half a dozen suppliments, then read
for a few weeks, then think about putting it all together as a game - then I
must admit I'd be a little more hesitant about starting a campaign.
What I think AH will probably do if (and it is a _big_ if) RQ takes off again
is print up cult books at a later date. This will involve lifting cults from
the senario books (SC RoC Borderlands) adding background, subcults etc etc and
marketing it as an optional source. Lets face it CoP & CoT were never really
optional in RQ2.
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Mark Buckley writes :
> A final thought: Does anyone on the list live near Oxford (UK) and want to
> meet for a beer or two sometime? (Just a suggestion...)
Drop me a line (if beer == real beer & pinball)
Ade
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From: ABEAN@GEEL.DWT.CSIRO.AU (Andrew Bean)
Subject: Etyrie's Merchants and Good Morals
Message-ID: <930507233854.2100102f@GEEL.DWT.CSIRO.AU>
Date: 8 May 93 09:38:54 GMT
The use of D.E.B. as a cult secret for Etyries sounds interesting as a way
to make up for their weak magic. However I think that although it has
cultural merit I would not include it in a campaign solely for this
reason. The Lunar Gods write up in GoG makes them pathetic when compared
to their Orlanthi complements and I am just waiting for a decent
publication to mend the holes. Apart from the Etyries weaknesses why would
Irripi Ontor ever think of replacing Lankhor Mhy when LM is the only one
with Analyze Magic.
In Pavis it is a source of considerable embarrassment for my Etyries
merchant that every time we get a whiz bang magic item I have to go to the
LM temple and let them know what has just turned up (I have to pay them
to use the spell and thus they learn what I've got to boot) before
I can sell it to my Lunar compatriots (for a reasonable service fee,
of course).
Also I think it was a great God Learner philospher who once said:
"Never give a sucker an even break"
I am running a business and have to cover costs such as all those business
lunches, posh accommodation, etc, etc. [Just try getting a company
lawyers' expenses bill itemised]. Of course everyone will benefit
from a business deal they do with me. It is just that I do my best to
ensure that I benefit more than others. (I like to think of myself as a
hardheaded businessman and anyone who wants to make libelous allegations
can complain to the Lunar administration, who are not close personal
friends of mine at all).
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From: seh0@aberystwyth.ac.uk
Subject: Assorted things
Message-ID: <9305071253.AA14983@deca.aber.ac.uk>
Date: 7 May 93 14:53:25 GMT
To Mark Buckley:
Yo! I like the info on Corinth...sounds funky. Currently I'm putting together
some gear, so if there's any way you can make the info available electronically
I'd appreciate laying hold of it. Unfortunately, I don't think I'll be around
in Aberystwyth for much longer all in all, so e-mail is probably the best way of
laying hold of it for me. I must admit, I do like it when Glorantha seems to
fall in neatly with mythology of our world. The smith/cyclops info could work
nicely in. All I have to do now is slip in my skyclad army of Orlanthi to
represent Celtic mythology. Seriously, do any armies march skyclad (stark
staring naked) into combat? Barbarian tribes could be possibilities. Also, in
Glorantha it wouldn't be as much of a problem as it was here. Magic can
compensate. Voice at the back of my mind keeps muttering about the Loam
Magic rules as written I think by Oliver Dickinson in an old White Dwarf.
One thing I may well be doing over the summer is putting together a small
pack dealing with the High Seas. Runequesting the High Seas is surely a deed
that must be done.....piracy, brigands, bucanneers, and assorted other fools.
If anyone is based in the North-East (Middlesbrough, UK) area I'd like to get
together and bounce ideas around. I also figure that such a pack really ought
to see the return of Panash, that legendary cult that lurks around the edges of
Glorantha. If anyone is interested, let me know. I feel the need for my
characters to start yelling about "The White Whale, the White Whale!"
As to the idea that this list is about to take off: brace yourselves, I'm
ready for one hell of a ride......
S'long for now folks.
Stephen M Hunt
Better Red Than Dead
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From: S.Phillips@vme.glasgow.ac.uk
Subject: Being "Gregged"..
Message-ID: <_7_May_93_15:22:05_A1022B@UK.AC.GLA.VME>
Date: 7 May 93 14:22:05 GMT
Hello Folks
On the subject of being "Gregged". At the end of the day, at least
Greg isn't one of your players... What I mean by this is - no-one (Apart
from Greg) knows the truth so what you say goes. This doesn't work for
historical campaigns (Pendragon, Vikings and the like). If you are
not well read on the era you wish to referee in you risk player mutiny
over every second detail..
An example of this was the horror expressed when someone suggested
the Lunars might have double-entry bookkeeping..
In a recent game of Call of Cthulu a five minute battle was waged
over whether our train from London would arrive at Glasgow Central or the
now demolished St.Enoch station..
In some ways the less Greg says the better for all the poor GM's
like my own (Orlanth bless his little wool socks) who have battled for
the last ten years or so in the dark. We have yet to sort out why Argrath is
still hanging out with us in Pavis on not on off sailing to every continent
with Harek etc.. If don't watch out he'll miss his cue in the holy country
and the Moon won't fall after all. What year is it?? -oops! ;-)
On the subject of artwork. If Avalon Hill can't afford decent artists
- how come the Chaosium can? How come they could way-back-yonder before
they were a success? The Runequest Companion (you do remember the Runequest
Companion, don't you) had far better art than most of what has come since
- and it was a mere pamphlet. :-(
The idea of a Font set of runes exites me beyond belief! Am I a
sad individual? Or have a just spent too long scribbling them on
everything. How do I get at Shannon Appel's Runequest ftp site. What
other treasures are held there. I see a HeroQuest coming on...
(What do you mean you've already got a wind sword and so does your freind
and his brother and his uncle and ... ):?} Oliver Jovanovic, if you
are there in the ether - make yourself known to me and aid me in my
quest for knowlege. I cannot offer much in return exept perhaps a
small shrine and a yearly power sacrifice... A holy day? I suppose I
could stretch to a holy day..
(Well why quest for the sword when you can quest for the smith)
but now I'm getting silly...
Cheers all, keep up thye good work.
Sam.
Not Scotland but Sartar.