On 4 May 2004 at 18:55, David Dunham wrote:
> For several of those cultures, there's really nothing more. You get
> to make it up!
Woo hoo!
> In terms of raw amount of cultural detail, it's probably
>
> Heortling (Dragon Pass)
> Uz
> Praxian
>
> Like Keith, I recommend picking different time periods or unusual
> locations so that you don't have a lot of source material you have to
> learn (I'm on the fence as to whether Thunder Rebels and Storm Tribe
> actually made it easier to run a Heortling game because of their
> wealth of useful information, or harder because of their
> overabundance of trivia).
I think that's always a problem. (Trivia vs info.)
> If you keep poking, you'll find that there has been a great deal of
> information published about Glorantha -- much of it no longer in
> print, or in small press magazines. You do NOT need to know all of
> it. Or feel intimidated by someone who's been reading it for 25 years.
I just like (and this is a personal thing) having enough of a sense of what I think the big picture is to feel confident in my improv work.
> There's always Balazar (Griffin Mountain is back in print, even if
> not in HeroQuest terms)...
Hmmm.. Where might one find this Griffin Mountain?
> To me this suggests the city-states of Ralios (which have never been
> documented in an official publication, but which have seen print --
> my geographical index
> <http://www.pensee.com/dunham/glorantha/geoIndex.html> is an attempt
> to help find all the places Ralios has been published, though I don't
> claim it's complete).
I'm starting to think more and more that I need to pin down some players, get some ideas of what they want to play with, and then decide where to focus on.
> Sadly, I don't think any such map is in print at the moment.
Check out that nylasor place I pointed to earlier, it ain't bad.
> To a degree there *is* a meta plot (the upcoming Hero Wars and the
> fall of the Red Moon), but it's written in promisingly/annoyingly
> vague fashion in King of Sartar. Really, you can do what you want.
Sorry, I wasn't clear. The meta plot is there, but it isn't set up "to be revealed later". Thus you already know where it is headed and can decide whether or not you want to go there. Much more liberating.
LC
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