As far as I am concerned, Peter has now entered David Boatwright
territory. Congratulations.
- In ImmoderateGloranthaQuest_at_yahoogroups.com, Peter Metcalfe
<metcalph_at_...> wrote:
>
> Rick wrote:
>
> >Peter Metcalfe wrote:
> > > >This whole disscussion has become very ugly very quickly.
>
> > > It became ugly when Greg made a boneheadly stupid decision
>
> >While Greg should have communicated his intentions better,
>
> The classical english understatement, right up there with the
> "He won't be getting up again" uttered after Thomas Beckett's
> skull had been cut open and his brains trampled into the
> cathedral floor.
>
> >the conversation turned ugly when you assumed the worst
> >and started ranting about what you thought would happen.
>
> It's pretty hard to read the following:
>
> ::it will never be reprinted. (Ten soft cover versions
were also
> ::made, and those too will never be reprinted.
>
> as a statement of intent that the work is not going to be made
> available as an unfinished work.
>
> When there's confusion about what the intended fate of the
> information (this from the researcher):
>
> :Who's to say it won't be? Or won't appear in a Mongoose
2nd age
> :publication? Or maybe it will end up on the web site.
>
> When another author offers this self-revealing gem about his
> general attitude to those less fortunate than himself (sociopathic
> doesn't begin to describe it):
>
> :these conventions are IMO the heart and soul of Glorantha
> :as a tribe, which I for one value much higher than
Glorantha as a
> :roleplaying game setting or as a source of geeky
obsessive
> :esoterica.
>
> When Greg advises people:
>
> :If it is REALLY so important that you have everything
then
> :I encourage you to join the ranks of true completists
and eat beans
> :and rice for the next six months to be able to afford
these rare
> :collector?s items.
>
> And when an "light" (fingered?) editor makes transparently false
statements
> about
> why something can never again be published:
>
> :Yes, its theoretically possible that it might have been
published
> as an
> :unfinished work: that was one of the original options
considered.
> For a
> :variety of practical reasons, it was not the way we went.
>
> and rounds it off with a sermon which is notable for its tone of
how the
> convention
> organizers have died for our sins, cannot walk on water because of
the wounds
> of crucifixion and thus need special sources of information that
will not
> be made
> available to the rest of us as compensation for their pains, it is
pretty
> hard not
> to assume the worst given that Greg has a demonstrated history of
shafting
> people.
>
> --Peter Metcalfe
>