On 5/4/07, Jeff Richard <richaje_at_xVQmtbxpWUT-KpIU_JYo7E8VTST5wavAPOQsBXYqJ6HclJs-eM_RnGV-jkuVNfYe99od7xU9OYnjCl4.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
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> OK. First things first. Vinga is just not that important in my
> opinion. She´s a minor little goddess, not even the most popular of
> the Warrior Women (Vinga, Erantha Gor, Maran Devor, Babeester Gor,
> Bevara, Enferalda, Redalda, etc). ... Personally, I think Enferalda and Bevara
> are just as useful in war as Vinga and I find Kev far far far more
> intimidating than Vinga. But that´s just me.
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> But that´s all I really have to say about Vinga. She´s just not that
> important.
Not saying you're wrong, but pointing out that to the buying public, Vinga is more important than all of those goddesses by virtue of number of pages written about her in her in a publicly available and supposedly official Issaries publication, Storm Tribe, which relegated the Gors to minor deity status, and doesn't even mention the Maran Gor subcults you list. Vinga's page count equals or exceeds the page count for all those others (this is the Immoderate List, so why bother counting). She also gets equal weight with some of those goddesses in the first second age Mongoose cults book, which again doesn't mention most of your list (though with the word count, I'm surprised it mentioned as much as it did).
Now, since this is the Immoderate list, I should point out that
readers of this fine list and the WoG list have been told that Storm
Tribe has been invalidated, but I doubt that all buyers of Storm Tribe
or most players of games in which it is used as a resource got the
memo. (Based entirely on my anecdotal counting of HQ players.)
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> Here´s one of the weaknesses of email as a debating forum - any strong
> argument proferred (unless it is filled with ritual caveats) has an
> unfortunate tendancy to read like an attempt to end the debate, slap
> down noobs, or statements of self aggrandizement. I apologize for the
> many times I have done that inadvertently.
Agreed in general, but you came across a lot stronger than "misunderstanding" on this topic. I don't know you from Adam, but maybe that'll change at Tentacles.
Thanks,
Andy
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