Re: What happen to Chaos ?

From: Roderick and Ellen Robertson <rjremr_at_...>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:01:11 -0700

> I think past Glorantha games tended to exaggerate the day-to-day danger
> of chaos, since the chaotic beasties were such great enemies. I think
> the typical Gloranthan worries about Chaos the way, say, the typical
> American worries about terrorism--he knows it's out there, he's heard
> stories about it, he knows you need to take sensible precautions, but it
> just doesn't loom large in his consciousness.

Also, we have plenty of real problems to think of - how the stinking lunars are stealing our cattle, or how the Blue Door Lotus League is musceling ointo our trading 'turf', or the magical ramifications of a troll winning Year-Husband, etc. "Monster hunting" is much less the goal of HQ than RQ (or D&D). Sure there are gangs of Chaos thingies, or individual monsters running around, but the political/religious/cultural tensions are what the hero wars are all about, not bashing a couple broo and a scorpion man or two.

As an example, that Earth Temple buried in the Chaos Caves in Snake Pipe Hollow is more interesting than the chaos baddies surrounding it (at least, *I* think so). Can the heroes revive the lost cult of Baroshi? What can the Snake Pipe do in the hands of a god? Which god? Can the heroes do *anything* about the Mother Maggot or the Hole Into the Void? Killing off some monsters is just an appetizer for the more important questions!

RR
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