There being bad juju about which makes life especially hard is great. Say life is twice as hard for Gloranthan, they should have twice the resources - the magical plus the mundane. It just means there is more going on. Two minuses with two plusses.
On the original point of contraception, there'd then need to be an extra magical reason why it is difficult which needs to be overcome. Some sort of gremlin which goes at condoms with needles or something. Fine.
The way you present it, we should do away with that especially lowered resistance to magic. I personally am comfortable with that (the wall you are trying magically to climb has a cantankerous spirit in it).
You strawberry-flavoured condom you...
Sam.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ImmoderateGloranthaQuest_at_yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:ImmoderateGloranthaQuest_at_yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Mark
> Galeotti
> Sent: 20 May 2007 13:47
> To: ImmoderateGloranthaQuest_at_yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: Magical contraception
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> --- In ImmoderateGloranthaQuest_at_yahoogroups.com, "Sam Elliot"
> <samclau_at_...> wrote:
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> > Really? Including all that flying stuff people do I suppose?
> Fireblade?
> >
> > How very odd. Seems like an awful stretch to me.
>
> Daniel said "The results of the magic done in Glorantha come out to
> about the same as the results in the RW" and I noted that this is
> something Greg has said, too. Of course our history didn't have
> fireblades, flying horses, moonburns and the like. The point being
> made is that in the final analysis, Gloranthans live lives much like
> those of comparable RW peoples. Glorantha is not Earth. Sure, _we_
> know that crops will grow and the sun will rise regardless of prayer
> and ritual, so if we also had some magic powers we could expect a
> bonus over and above what our skills and the natural world would
> provide. Glorantha isn't like that, it is a world in which 'science'
> is actually built around the old assumptions, not modern science.
> Without that prayer, the crops may well not grow, regardless of the
> nutrients in the soil. That wound didn't heal because of the body's
> immune systemn, it was because of the prayers that were said over it
> as the ritual herb was rubbed into it. In detail, Gloranthans do have
> powers that we and our ancestors did not, but then again they also
> face problems not found in the RW, from ice demons scouring the crop
> to Mallia's servants poisoning the well with a glare. Ultimately,
> they various differences basically cancel each other out.
>
> Mark
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