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This is the RuneQuest Daily Bulletin, a mailing list on
the subjects of Avalon Hill's RPG and Greg Stafford's 
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From: akuma@netcom.com (Steven E Barnes)
Subject: Rule Lawyer, and proud of it
Message-ID: <199312200933.BAA23558@mail.netcom.com>
Date: 19 Dec 93 17:33:59 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 2685


>    NEW MONSTER: THE DRONE
>    This tedious creature likes to lurk in the deeper recesses of the 
>Internet. It worships a chaos deity called Rules and obeys the following
>general principle: However much stuff of actual worth there is on the RQ
>Daily, there is 10 times as much waffle about Rules to plough through.
>[etc...]

I write about rules, because that's what I'm good at.  In anycase,
I prefer to read discussions about the nature of Time and heroquesting,
than say, another unofficial, huge cult writeup for some minor diety.

But I consider the flaws of RQ3 to be due to a *lack* of rules lawyers,
not a product of their pernicious influence.  My gaming group and I spent 
a couple hours driving mack trucks thru the RQ3 rules, on first reading...

But I do agree that current RQ products show an unfair Orlanthi bias.
Lets have equal time for Lunars!

-steve



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From: Beatrice.Kamber@bcu.unil.ch (Beatrice Kamber)
Subject: Campaign background written by Martin CRIM
Message-ID: <9312200909.AA22068@cisun2000.unil.ch>
Date: 20 Dec 93 11:13:04 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 2686

Hello,
I would like to receive all the campaign background
written by Martin Crim and some others on PRAX.
Is it possible?
I thank you very much for your answer.
B. Kamber



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From: 100270.337@CompuServe.COM (Nick Brooke)
Subject: Curses! Foiled Again!
Message-ID: <931220214213_100270.337_BHB60-1@CompuServe.COM>
Date: 20 Dec 93 21:42:14 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 2688

I'm obviously losing touch: only scored 76/88 on Paul Honigmann's Yelmic 
Quiz. If anyone wants to embarass me at RQ-Con, ask for my top tips for a 
Yelmalion dinner-party menu...

Looks like Gaumata can keep his job for a while yet. I'm off to stare 
penitently at the sun (should be safe for a few hours yet: Australia's 
starting to get in the way).

On the Yara Aranis cavalry/infantry question: maybe she's the patron of 
"combined arms" dragoon tactics -- dismounted cavalry / mounted infantry. 
We know these are a Lunar speciality, and it's easy to see how they'd be 
useful against the Pent nomads: mobility to get them where they're needed, 
and stability to withstand whatever the enemy can throw against them.

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Nick
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From: henkl@yelm (Henk Langeveld - Sun Nederland)
Subject: Greg Stafford: Yara Aranis
Message-ID: <9312210124.AA03158@yelm.Holland.Sun.COM>
Date: 21 Dec 93 03:24:55 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 2689

>From Greg Stafford, in reply to Paul Honigman:

Please pass on my congratulations and encouragement to the guy who wrote the
Yara Aranis stuff. Most of it was quite Right On. I thought that I had
published the fact that Yara Aranis' special power against the nomads is that
she can Scare Horses. Her mother was the Eater of Horses of the Praxian
pantheon, made pregnant by the Red Emperor.
Also, his  Yelmalio was great. I enjoyed reading it. The material is in no
way compromised by KoS. It could be a "Right Thinking" test.
Nuf now.
- g

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