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Jeff Richard wrote:
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> > The concept seemed pretty central to the interpretation of Glorantha
> during the HQ(1) era--with even one entire supplement dedicated to
> sample hero bands. The same basic structure was used for clans,
> war-bands, and even cities (Fay Jee uses this explicitly, for example).
>
> Which unfortunately was its problem. Every community got boxed into
> the hero band standard format and the idea of a "hero band" lost any
> distinctive meaning other than "Gloranthan community". Clans, tribes,
> kingdoms, temples, cities - once they all became "hero bands" and
> described using the same standard format (leader, notable members, and
> so on) it became a victim of standardization.
>
> Gloranthan communities still have magical resources and guardians, and
> can be described using the HeroQuest Community Resource and Support
> rules.
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>
> __,_._,_
History:
From the start the term and idea "hero band" was intended to be the
vocabulary word for the widest-reaching definition of what it does,
intended to be tailored to a war band, etc. That movement towards
accepting something in print as bog standard is always a problem with
written rules, and since the group type was the one given, it was used
for everything.
So it goes.
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