Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner, but I left the printout with my notes behind me at my Mother-in-law's house.
My main point would be "Gloranthan magic is powered by runes." While this is undoubtably true, they are never powered directly from the runes, but from intermediate beings - gods, spirits, saints. I think this needs to be made clear in the opening paragraphs. On first reading, you'd think that theists have no gods, and monotheists don't have saints/founders.
For example, theists should "focus on one rune of their god" rather than on "a rune".
Also, "Many theist cultures are associated with a specific rune and typically have that rune as one of their three starting affinities. "
This is utter bunk. People are not identified by the rune, but by the entity. Heortling men have Air *because* they worship Orlanth, not because they have some strange affinity to the rune.
Anyway, if you've finished your final edits, this is too late, but i hope these were addressed.
RR
He was born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world was mad
R. Sabatini, Scaramouche
> Just to let folk know - I just finished my last edits to the new
> Glorantha magic rules for HQ 2.0 and the team is making the final
> spell-checks and similar edits. Art will still take a little more
> time, but the contents of this baby are pretty much finished.
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> And boy is it cool. Really cool. Really fantastically cool.
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> Jeff
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>> I still read the list, and post occasionally. Thing is when I
> heard a new edition was coming out with some substantially new
> mechanics, I sort of put my HQ plans on hold - and it's been quite a
> while now. Is the edition still do to launch at Continuum? And is
> Blood Over Gold finally going to be available in hard copy then?
> Basically it comes down to waiting till Auguist on my part, plus i
> have a lot of rpg commisions ot work on for strict deadlines, so my HQ
> playing is very limited till late summer...
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