>Subject: RE: Gloranthan Reality & Hero Wars (Long Quoutes, my apologies)
>
>>|From: Mikko Rintasaari [mailto:mikrin_at_...]
>|My gamers know what a thunderstone is, and what it has been enchanted
>|for. Now they get to see that just because the enchanted slingstone is
>|called a thunderstone it can suddenly be used to summon thunder.
>|
>|This is past silly.
>
>Gee, I don't know; I think this is really pretty cool. From a
>mythological/Gloranthic point of view, why SHOULD'NT a thunderstone have
>some kind of affect on the ability to summon a storm? It didn't have any
>such effect in RQ, but then again RQ rules aren't a good guide to
>Gloranathan reality. It has a kind of mythic resonance that I like, making
>Thunderstones more than just another way to hurt people by tying them into
>Gloranthan reality more plausibly.
I've always assumed thunderstone landed with a clap of thunder and a
momentary darkening of the sky in RQ. I'd certainly allow one to augment
summoning a storm.
Thom