Re: How to Introduce Glorantha to newbies?

From: donald_at_U8om35Iy5RV-sTKlqOqMb-6H8loa9GSuvWv_ZdxdH4XFUnckuEnzfLKwx6XuVeni9kpXt
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:35:00 GMT


In message <h7gl67+t0u8_at_eGroups.com> "ttrotsky2" writes:
>
>> Precisely the problem, the cultures which are most written and
>> published about are assumed to be Caucasian.
>
>Which RPG worlds is this *not* true of, though? If gamers are rejecting
>Glorantha because of this, then it would imply that most other gaming
>worlds are different in this respect. I can think of some others where
>non-whites exist (Harn and Kalamar, for instance), but where they aren't
>the main ethnic group in the game? Al-Qadim, possibly, but is that
>really doing so much better than Glorantha these days?

I don't know the RPG market well enough to say. Certainly the gaming market is predominantly white and the games published reflect that.

>I suspect the original poster was talking about something else.

Well that was just a comment on perceptions of they had encountered.

-- 
Donald Oddy
http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/

           

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