Guy
Guy Hoyle wrote:
> It seems like a lot of the scenario material, however, depends upon it a
> lot, and that if you ignore it, you miss a great deal about what the
> scenario's about. I find myself wondering why I buy them if there's not
> a lot of material I can use. (Or not a lot I can enjoy reading; I'm a
> player in Glorantha, mostly.) Now there are some really fine exceptions;
> I thought that "Barbarian Adventures" pretty much captured some of that
> spirit. I liked the epic scope of "Orlanth is Dead", and for some reason
> I liked most of "Skullpoint" when a lot of people here seem not to. I
> was initially attracted to Glorantha because it was such a unique world;
> however, I feel now that it's TOO unique, and overwhelming in its
> uniqueness.
>
> Here comes my grognard whine now. One of the differences with the old RQ
> material and the new HQ material is that I was always able to pick it up
> and read it and know exactly what I could do with it (back in the days
> when I was running a campaign). I see all the debates about
> interpretation of minutiae and whether the ancestors of a group of
> people I barely remember anything about embraced the Orlanthi religion
> reluctantly or not back when they didn't even know how to use tools, and
> it makes me wonder why I still like Glorantha any more. I haven't given
> up on it, but I hardly pick up any of the HQ books to read anymore.
>
> Glorantha has always been a world that appeals to a more highly educated
> crowd than many other game worlds that I have read about, and it should
> always be so. I still think very fondly of it. But I feel that a lot of
> what appealed to me many years ago has been retired. I don't know
> whether it's outgrown me or whether I've outgrown it. But I'm glad I'm
> playing in a campaign now that is fun and evocative of the days I used
> to wait with baited breath for the next RuneQuest sourcebook to come
> out, even if it's not much like the Glorantha being published today.
>
-- --Guy Hoyle "Live every day as if you're dying Of a contagious disease that turns people you bite into zombies." The Onion, January 25, 2006 | Issue 42�04
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