I was under the impression that this was fine with you...
Apparently this is not the case?
Jeff
Steve Lieb wrote:
>
> "kyer, jeffrey" <jeff.kye-_at_...> wrote:
> original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/hw-rules/?start=137
> > But... but... (whimper) I *like* Glorantha! Anyways, the herowars
> list
> > at www.onelist.com/communities/HeroWars will, ONCE THE GAME IS
> RELEASED
> > be devoted to the discussion of Hero Wars in a Glorantha setting...
> > More of a world and how to work there rather than rules discussions.
>
> Well doh!
> I *like* Glorantha, too. A lot. But if someone finds that the HW
> system really suits their particular desires for a rules set to
> simulate Arthurian Britain, medieval Japan, Inca Peru, or Aryan India -
> more power to them, and more play for the game.
> I see the success of Glorantha (in it's, what, 3rd resurrection?) as
> being very heavily invested in the success of the rules system. If the
> game world was salable on its own, Greg would have hammered out a
> bastardized Glorantha based on someone else's rules, and that would
> have been it.
> But no, there's more going on here. Greg (& Robin, et. al.) wrote HW
> (AFAIK) to be the best possible way to simulate the magic-permeated
> mythically loaded world of Glorantha. Ergo Glorantha and the Hero Wars
> "system" (in this significantly "essentialist" incarnation, and clearly
> contrary to the "nominalist" RuneQuest rules) are truly symbiotic.
>
> There are going to be some people that love Glorantha despite HW.
> There are also going to be people that like HW but don't care for
> Glorantha. But note I say symbiotic, not parasitic. The bio-analogy
> sort of fails, but the reality is that anything that can increase the
> sales/exposure/acceptance of HW "the rules" MUST do the same inevitably
> for Glorantha and vice versa.
>
> So this list is INclusionary - someone wants to talk about how they use
> HW to simulate combat between New Kingdom Egyptians and the Assyrians -
> more power to them.
>
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