me:
>> As I see it, children, in Heortling eyes, are part of the wealth
of the
>> whole clan. Yes, their immediate kin will be most concerned, but if a boy's
>> initiation fails, that's five year's worth of young men lost; an immense
>> disaster for the clan. I think extraordinary suopport is not unreasonable.
>
>But losing when you have given extraordinary support would make the
>consequences EVEN WORSE, yet the bonus gained for extraordinary
>support (rather than the next level of support) is rather modest,
>IIRC.
In my opinion, if anything calls for extraordinary support, it's
initiation. It's certainly more important than getting a magic cow from
Uldra, nice as that might be.
>> I don't think these are weird "specialty myths." The special
rituals of
>> the clan are going to be part of daily life. Parts of them will be told at
>> every hearth, every day.
>[snip Glorantha colour]
>
>Great stuff... but this is the RULES list, and my concern is about
>the rules. I can accept (nay, demand) a Glorantha in which an
>initiation HQ does not have a sizeable chance of killing all the
>candidates and destroying the clan. As the rules are written, this is
>not the case.
Thanks. Sorry about the excess, I was on a roll. I've moved part of it to HeroWars. Although a clear idea of what is being modeled is a useful part of creating a model, I confess I have a hard time telling the two lists apart.
I guess I feel that it's more productive to explain why an "established fact" should be so rather than trying to figure out why it shouldn't be true. On the other hand, a certain amount of devil's advocacy can only be a good thing.
Peter Larsen
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