Re: Re: Re: Thunderstone

From: Mikko Rintasaari <mikrin_at_...>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 15:28:40 +0300 (EET DST)

Simon, responding to me:

> Apparently the moment of revelation for him (Steve Dempsey) was
> Greg's 'Fuck the Numbers' remark.
>
> So for some people, HW is vastly easier to run streight out of the
> box than RQ. I'm looking forward to thursday night, as I missed
> the session last week.
>
> OTOH I fully understand that it doesn't work for you, however I now
> know of four people who were extremely dubious of HW before
> Convulsion, had only vague knowledge of Glorantha before hand, but
> are now in a regular HW game and are loving it.

Ok. I'm glad about this. That propably means that HW has a chanse to attract new gamers, and prosper as a commersial product.  

> In RQ, you realy needed to know a lot about Glorantha to get into
> the game, but HW is much more open. This means you can dip into
> the Gloranthan background as deeply or as shallowly as you choose.

Hmm... true, I suppose. (Tho I did always hate the people who abused Glorantha. Using the names of the deities and places, but not really bothering to understand it at all)

> It's my conciet that Glorantha is a strong enough background to
> draw people in more deeply than they might initialy intend or
> expect.
>
> Simon Hibbs

I hope you are right Somon. It sure sounds promising.

        -Adept

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